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Public Opinion: What do customers really want from an energy supplier?

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Event
  • Session
  • Tuesday, 22 May 2018
  • 15:22 - 15:22
  • Duration: 15 mins
  • Publication date: 08 Jun 2018
  • Location: Customer Solutions Theatre, NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Utility week Live 2018

About the session

For utilities to succeed in a service and experience-driven market, they must develop their capabilities beyond the mere delivery of products. They must understand how customer life style choices, health, cultural background, hobbies and appetite for new technology impact the way they need to consume these products, and also how they like to be communicated with.

This understanding is all the more important in a fraught political environment, reflecting and exacerbating mistrust in utilities.

How can utilities develop this nuanced understanding of their customers and develop new ways of delivering for them

Keywords:
  • GDPR
  • climate change
  • cloud migration
  • cyber defence
  • data governance
  • decarbonisation
  • electric vehicle
  • energy
  • energy crisis
  • energy sector
  • fuel bank
  • npower
  • power consumption
  • priority services
  • renewable
  • smart meter
  • smart meter data
  • water sector

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Speakers

  • Gary Muncaster

    Gary Muncaster

    Populus Limited, Managing director

    Gary is Managing Director at Populus, and associate member of the Market Research Society with over 20 years’ research experience and a PhD from Manchester University. He is an expert in customer experience measurement and new product development, having conducted major market research programmes on behalf of a number of blue chip clients. His experience has given him a deep appreciation of the power that research has to help all types of enterprises in building impactful brands, launching successful new products, enhancing their customers’ experiences and generating new business.
  • Gary Muncaster

    Gary Muncaster

    Populus Limited, Managing director

    Gary is Managing Director at Populus, and associate member of the Market Research Society with over 20 years’ research experience and a PhD from Manchester University. He is an expert in customer experience measurement and new product development, having conducted major market research programmes on behalf of a number of blue chip clients. His experience has given him a deep appreciation of the power that research has to help all types of enterprises in building impactful brands, launching successful new products, enhancing their customers’ experiences and generating new business.
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