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Pure Planet - Britain's first all-digital, app-based renewable energy supplier

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  • Tuesday, 21 May 2019
  • 15:21 - 15:21
  • Duration: 7 mins
  • Publication date: 12 Jun 2019
  • Location: Customer Solutions, NEC
  • Part of event Utility Week 2019

About the session

The long anticipated price cap came into effect on 1st January 2019 – a historic market intervention, initially capping typical standard variable tariffs for dual-fuel customers at £1,137.  How have energy companies fared and how have customers responded in the first six months – what have been the impacts, challenges and unintended consequences; what has it done for customer engagement and switching; and has it tackled the market issues it was created to address? 

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  • cyber security
  • digital
  • electricity
  • energy price cap
  • energy supplier
  • power
  • renewable
  • renewable electricity
  • smart infrastructure
  • smart meter
  • utilities

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    Steven Day

    Pure Planet, Founding partner

    Steven Day is a founding partner of Pure Planet, a new, app-based renewable energy supplier. He is also a part-time Masters student at the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Sustainability Leadership.He has 30 years’ experience in journalism, communications, brand marketing, and business. After a degree in religion, he spent the first ten years of his career as a writer and editor in magazine and newspaper journalism, before joining Virgin in 1999 to help create and launch Virgin Mobile, where Steven was responsible for communications, corporate responsibility, investor relations - and some of Richard Branson’s headline-seeking stunts. Virgin Mobile listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2004, doubled its share price, and was sold to ntl in 2006 for just under £1 billion, when it became Virgin Media. He went onto to become Chief of Staff, Brand & Communications at Orange in 2008, which he helped merge with T-Mobile in the UK. He led the creation and launch of the EE brand in 2012 - the largest mobile business in the UK - and the decommissioning of the two former brands.He launched Pure Planet in 2017 - with a group of friends he has worked with since Virgin - with the ambition of creating a mass market, value-for-money, digital and green energy retailer. Pure Planet is the first and (to date) only British, independent energy supplier to have signed the UN Global Compact in support of the sustainable development goals.He is a trustee of Unicef, and lives in Wiltshire with his partner and their two children.
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