final customer means a natural or legal person who purchases energy for own end use;
final customer means any person or company who off-takes Natural Gas at the Domestic Point for its own consumption.
final customer means a customer purchasing electricity for his own use;
More Definitions of final customer
final customer means a customer purchasing natural gas for his own use;
final customer means a customer who purchases electricity for own use;
final customer means customers purchasing electricity for their own use;
final customer means a natural or legal person who purchases energy for his or her own end use;
final customer or “End Customer” means the customer of the Customer which is either a manufacturer itself (e.g. a car or an aeronautic manufacturer) or a supplier of a manufacturer.
final customer means final customer as defined in point (3) of Article 2 of Directive (EU) 2019/944;
final customer means according to EED Article 2 (23) "a natural or legal person who purchases energy for own end use". This definition has given rise to different interpretations notably in cases where heating and cooling or hot water is purchased collectively by or on behalf of an association of end-users (for example a group of households responsible for energy consumption in each of the individual apartments in a multi-apartment building). Although it is often a housing cooperative that purchases the energy, it is arguably the individual households who are the end-user (except, perhaps, of energy used for heating stairwells and similar collective uses). The Commission services have taken the view that the definition of final customer should be understood as covering those end-users (i.e. households/tenants) as well as the entity purchasing heating/cooling/hot water on behalf of the end-users (e.g. a housing cooperative/building owner). However, some Member States (FI, FR, DE, UK,…) seem to interpret the provisions differently, taking the view that the individual households in such buildings are not to be considered as final customers if they do not have a contractual relationship with the energy supply company . This question has important implications for the effective scope of the obligations in the EED, incl. Article 9(1), 10(1), Article 10(3) and Annex VII. In principle this problem applies to all energy forms, in practice it is most relevant for thermal energy forms (electricity and gas more rarely, not being subject to individual supply contracts even in multi-apartment buildings). It is particularly problematic when it comes to new buildings or major renovations, for which the obligation in the EED Article 9(1) to fit individual meters is absolute (i.e. technical and economic conditionalities do not apply), but where the applicability of this absolute obligation is undermined by the uncertainty about the meaning of the definition of "final customers".