Tuesday, 17 May 2011

Utility Warehouse

The Utility Warehouse is aimed at helping the UK house holder save money with all utility bills, such as gas, electricity, internet, mobile phone, broadband telephone calls, land lines and there is a great cash back card !!!

http://www.utilitywarehouse.org.uk/robinco

ASDA becomes Utility Warehouse Cashback partner

The Utility Warehouse Discount Club offers members the opportunity to further reduce their utility bills with cashback from shopping. The ASDA supermarket chain is the latest partner to offer shoppers cashback when they use their Utility Warehouse Cashback card to pay for their grocery shopping.

Other Cashback card partners include Sainsburys, M&S, B&Q, Homebase, Comet, Argos, Halfords, and many more. As well as the high street, the card can be used to get cashback from hundreds of on-line suppliers.

http://www.utilitywarehouse.org.uk/robinco 

Monday, 16 May 2011

About The Utility Warehouse

The Utility Warehouse has more than 233,000 customers and is owned and operated by Telecom Plus PLC. 

The Utility Warehouse does not advertise, and is a discount club that offers a wide range of utilities services (home phone, mobile phone, internet, gas and electricity) on one monthly bill.

The Utility Warehouse fuel mix disclosure

All energy suppliers have to provide information about the mix of fuels they use to generate energy supplied to gas and electricity customers and its environmental impact.

The Utility Warehouse fuel mix

  • Coal 31%
  • Natural gas 57%
  • Nuclear 3%
  • Renewable* 6%
  • Other 3%
*Wind, hydro and solar power

http://www.utilitywarehouse.org.uk/robinco

Customer satisfaction survey results


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Customer satisfaction survey results

Choosing a new gas or electricity supplier doesn't just have to be about comparing prices. You could also choose a top rated energy supplier using the Which? Switch energy satisfaction survey.
The Which? Switch energy satisfaction survey gathers opinions from thousands of energy customers and rates energy suppliers on a range of measures including customer service, value for money and clarity of bills. Each energy supplier is given an overall satisfaction score based on its customers' overall satisfaction and their likelihood of recommending the energy supplier to a friend.
Our latest survey results shows that small providers are streets ahead of Britain's six biggest energy suppliers - which supply 98% of Britain's homes. But satisfaction with the smaller players isn't enough to pull the average overall satisfaction above 48% - one of the lowest of all sectors covered by Which? surveys.

Energy company satisfaction survey results

The table, below, shows how Which? members rated the 10 energy suppliers that they use. The providers were given star ratings for eight different criteria as well as an overall satisfaction score.
The providers' scores for electricity and gas supplies have been combined. Where we didn't receive enough responses - or in the case of NIE, which was rated only for customer satisfaction - you'll see n/a.
Utilities satisfaction survey
SupplierBills - overallCustomer serviceEncouraging efficiencyValue for moneyDealing with queriesCustomer score
Utility Warehouseexcellentexcellentsatisfactoryexcellentexcellent77%
Ovoexcellentexcellentgoodexcellentexcellent77%
Ebicoexcellentgoodgoodexcellentn/a72%
SSEgoodgoodsatisfactorygoodexcellent56%
Eongoodsatisfactorygoodgoodgood49%
Scottish Powergoodsatisfactorypoorgoodgood46%
British Gasgoodsatisfactorysatisfactorysatisfactorysatisfactory45%
First Utilitygoodpoorpoorgoodvery poor43%
EDFsatisfactorysatisfactorysatisfactorysatisfactorygood40%
Npowerpoorpoorsatisfactorysatisfactorysatisfactory34%
NIEn/an/an/an/an/a34%a

Table notes

  1. NIE's score doesn't include the likelihood of recommending the supplier and is based on satisfaction only
n/a means there were insufficient responses to rate the supplier
Sample sizes: Utility Warehouse (185), Ovo (93), Ebico (46), SSE (1,516), Eon (1,619), Scottish Power (1,117), British Gas (1,860), First Utility (173), EDF (888), Npower (644), Northern Ireland Electricity (73). Total sample size was 8214.

Good news for small energy suppliers

The results tell a familiar story, with the 'big six' energy companies scoring badly again. The top spot is for energy and telecoms provider

http://www.utilitywarehouse.org.uk/robinco