Case: How we saved heating

A management company asked for help when a utility provider notified them of termination of the heat supply contract. This could seriously affect the residents’ lives and the client’s activities. Besides, some of the apartment buildings were not technologically connected to the central heating system.

FINCOM group experts analyzed the situation and found out that the residents produce hot water and eating themselves through individual heat exchangers. The heat carrier provided by the utility provider served only as an initial component. The utility service – heating – was provided by the client using the heating energy supplied by the utility provider and special equipment (a heat exchanger) which was a part of common property in an apartment building (an independent heating system with an individual heat exchanger placed in a heating unit).

The company’s lawyers proved that in the absence of a centralized system of hot water and/or heating supply in an apartment building, the management company is the provider of the utility services, which makes it impossible to switch to direct contracts with the owners regarding the supply of heating energy for production of hot water and heating (case № A57-33731/2020).

Due to legal expertise and competent position, the management company was able to save the heating systems in apartment buildings and ensure uninterrupted supply of utility services to the residents despite the threat of termination of the contract with the utility provider.