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  • Wednesday, 22 May 2019
  • 15:22 - 15:22
  • Duration: 13 mins
  • Publication date: 13 Jun 2019
  • Location: Customer Solutions, NEC
  • Part of event Utility Week 2019

About the session

Customers’ relationship with the energy they consume is changing. The old top-down models of distribution are disappearing, and many customers are taking a more active role in generating and storing their own energy. Community energy companies and models are on the rise. What does this mean for the UK’s energy market, and how do traditional retailers need to adapt in response?

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  • cyber security
  • digital
  • electricity
  • power
  • smart infrastructure
  • smart meter
  • utilities

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  • Ben Gately

    Ben Gately

    Social Energy, Commercial Director

    Ben has 10 years' experience in Utilities and Energy Trading. He’s highly experienced at leading technical transformation in Utilities; providing leading edge commercial and trading solutions to maximise business growth and profitability.Having led the commercial trading team at Ecotricity, Ben joined Social Energy in January this year to create, build, and develop the commercial, trading and compliance function from scratch. At Social Energy the team are focussed on launching a revolutionary digital energy service that gives customers the power to become their own mini utility – Ben’s work alongside the Social Energy technical team will help to put the power back into customers hands, giving them the ability to store, trade and earn from their energy.
  • Victoria Clarke

    Victoria Clarke

    Head of Customer Experience

    Victoria recently joined Social Energy as the Head of Customer Experience, bringing a wealth of experience from a career working in customer experience and delivering digital transformation.In her more recent career, Victoria has been leading Customer Experience transformations in challenger and disrupter brands, including Super Dry. As head of CX, Victoria is all about the customer and designing sustainable process and technical solutions to meet and exceed their ever-changing needs.With a focus on building and leading high-performance teams to deliver exceptional customer experience, Victoria will be a critical member of the Social Energy team.
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