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Q&A Session - Gold standard service for business customers: lessons from the energy market

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Event
  • Session
  • Wednesday, 24 May 2017
  • 14:00
  • Duration: 18 mins
  • Publication date: 07 Jun 2017
  • Location: Customer Solutions Theatre, Hall 12, NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Utility Week 2017

About the session

This session will look at how the energy market has succeeded with business customers, both directly and via brokers, and explore what lessons water companies can learn as they enter a competitive market for the first time.

As utilities face transformative changes to market systems from the introduction of CMA remedies, smart metering, faster switching and the opening of the water market this series of seminars will explore the challenges and opportunities which lie ahead for utility companies seeking to deliver better value and service to customers.

Keywords:
  • Brexit
  • digital
  • electricity
  • power
  • smart infrastructure
  • smart meter
  • utilities
  • water sector

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  • JN

    Jeremy Nicholson

    Energy Intensive Users Group, Director

  • MB

    Mathew Beech

    insights editor, Utility Week

    Mathew is the insights editor at Utility Week and is responsible for the feature content for the magazine and online. He also helps to develop and produce premium content and reports for the Utility Week Intelligence platform.Mathew has been with Utility Week since August 2012, initially as a reporter covering the energy retail sector. Since then, he has also covered the water sector, before becoming deputy news editor and deputy insights editor.
  • Jonathan  Kini

    Jonathan Kini

    Drax Retail, Chief executive

    As CEO of Drax Retail, Jonathan oversees business operations and champions Drax’s retail strategy across Haven Power and Opus Energy. He is responsible for pursuing increased business growth through small-to-medium enterprise (SME) sectors, and for sustaining and growing Drax Retail’s industrial and commercial (I&C) customer base. The Retail strategic focus is a more customer-centric approach to energy sustainability, to inspire change in energy use and help customers to use less. Under Jonathan’s leadership, both Haven Power and Opus Energy will have the unique ability to offer reliable, renewable energy generated using biomass technology. The long term ambition is that 100% of Drax’s Retail customers are on 100% renewable.
  • Lucy  Darch

    Lucy Darch

    NWG, Managing director

    Lucy has a wealth of experience in business retention and growth, delivering unrivalled customer experience and structuring and leading high performance teams in the utility sector. Her impressive 20-year career in utilities has seen Lucy setting up and leading business development, digital, commercial and marketing teams in large national companies including British Gas Business, uSwitch and Moneysupermarket. She joined Northumbrian Water in October 2015 as Managing Director of the retail business.
  • Peter Thompson

    Peter Thompson

    Utilities Intermediaries Association, Non exec director

    41 years in the Gas industry – Sheffield, Apprentice Gas Fitter, fitting Cookers Fires and Water heaters, to Scunthorpe selling them first to domestic customers then to Builders and Developers. Then Sheffield, Rotherham, Workington and Middlesbrough; as Service, Administration, and eventually Area Manager responsible for 135 Office staff and 310 Service engineers.To Regional Marketing Manager in Northern Region before moving to ‘Transco’ as Metering Policy Manager, with some responsibility for the Network Code development. Then an Account Manager responsible for some major shippers and finally Customer Relations Manager for National Grid.In 2004 on leaving the Gas industry I became a Lay Member of the Bar Standards Board for eight years, sitting on tribunals where Barristers faced their self-regulated discipline process.In 2006 along with Rod Sinden and Gill Walton set up the UIA, generating a large proportion of the UIA CoP. The UIA is where Third Party Intermediaries who wish to work to the Premier Code of Practice and defined standard; plus, are prepared to be accountable to their customers through an independent redress scheme, can become members. The UIA is a Trade Association and a ‘not for profit’ organisation. www.uia.org.uk I lead on Water for the UIA, attend the CCWater meetings, meet with Ofwat and on behalf of the UIA have responded to a number of consultations as part of the NHH market opening.
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