D. ESCo is obliged to make heat available to such tenants under relevant Residential Heat Supply Agreements; E. during “Void” periods (i.e. initial and in-between tenancies), the Registered Provider is required to pay for Variable and Standing Charges and during tenancies, the Registered Provider is required to pay a proportion of the tenant’s Standing Charges, equivalent to the costs of operating and maintaining the district heating equipment within the building serving the Residential Unit; F. it has been assumed that (i) all of the heat distribution network up to the Building’s’/Block’s connection point is operated and maintained by ESCo and (ii) the Registered Provider, e.g., owns and/or is responsible for replacement of the Secondary Distribution Network within the relevant Building/ Block. The Parties ought to discuss whether ESCo will be notionally responsible for interruptions to heat supply caused by faults occurring in the Building/Block heating system and/or any Unit Installation – in which case the landlord/Registered Provider will indemnify ESCo for these costs. Parties to also consider how repairs and replacements to the Building/Block heating system and/or any Unit Installations will be addressed, and whether the Landlord will want to appoint ESCo to do this. Under the Landlord Void Supply Agreement: G. the Landlord is responsible for ensuring that all Residential and Commercial Units within the relevant Block of which it is landlord, take heat from the district heating scheme; H. ESCo is obliged to make heat available to such Residential and Commercial Units under relevant Residential Heat Supply Agreements and Commercial Unit Heat Supply Agreements; I. prior to first lettings of Units, the Landlord is responsible for payment of Charges (i.e. covering the cost of the Void period). Optionality has been included for the Landlord to also be responsible for in-between tenancy Void periods; J. it has been assumed that all of the units served will either be all residential or a mix of residential and commercial. If all commercial, additional amends will be required to remove residential specific drafting; K. it has been assumed that (i) all of the heat distribution network up to the Building’s/Block’s connection point is owned, operated and maintained by ESCo and (ii) the Landlord, e.g. owns and/or is responsible for replacement of the Secondary Distribution Network (or “Building Heating System”) within the relevant Building/ Block. The Parties ought to discuss whether ESCo will be notionally responsible for interruptions to heat supply caused by faults occurring in the Building Heating System and/or any Unit Installation – in which case the Landlord will indemnify ESCo for these costs. Parties to also consider how repairs and replacements to the Building Heating System and/or any Unit Installations will be addressed, and whether the Landlord will want to appoint ESCo to do this. The structuring assumption and risk allocation underlying this Agreement is far from the only possible or valid structure and, even adopting the structure described above, there could be a wide range of variant approaches to aspects of the commercial structuring and contracting matrix. Therefore, it is likely that this template Agreement will serve only as a starting point for drafting of an agreement that will need to be tailored to the particular characteristics of a given district heating scheme. Public sector bodies should take into consideration any public accounting impacts when entering into agreements.