Our customer service and complaints performance

Find out our Citizens Advice star rating for customer service and view our complaints performance report.

Customer service

Our Citizens Advice score

How do Citizens Advice score us?

Citizens Advice compares energy suppliers across 5 different categories and ranks how good their customer service is from several reliable sources. They score each supplier out of 5 stars, and you can find out more on their website.

Scores for April - June 2024
Reporting period Overall rating Fewer complaints received Contact waiting time Customer commitments
Q2 2024 2.9 1 4 5

Trustpilot

4.1 out of 5 based on 228,349 reviews

We collect and review feedback through Trustpilot, an online review community that allows our customers to tell us about their buying and service experiences.  

You can take a look at the feedback and leave a review

Complaints performance

We use feedback from complaints to improve the level of service that we can provide and prevent issues from occurring in the first place.

Our latest report is from 1st April to 30th June 2024 (Second quarter).

Complaints by quarter
Reporting period Complaints received Received per 100k customer accounts Complaints resolved Resolved per 100k customer accounts % resolved same or next working day % resolved within 8 weeks
Q2 2024 192,855 1530 208,940 1658 49.5% 85.9%

What happened in Q2 2024?

  • During quarter two we received 13% less complaints than in the previous quarter, a total of 192,855 complaints which is a reduction of almost 28,000.
  • We’re also resolving complaints faster. We improved the number resolved the same or next working day as well as those resolved within 8 weeks.
  • We continue to work hard to reduce the number of complaints referred to the Energy Ombudsman. It is our intention to always resolve complaints quickly, without the need for our customers to escalate issues. We received 7,905 Ombudsman complaints in Quarter 2. This is almost 1000 less than in Quarter 1.

What does the Energy Ombudsman do?

They take on complaints if we haven’t resolved them within eight weeks or if we’ve sent you a final position letter, you may choose to escalate this to the Energy Ombudsman for them to take a look.

We work closely with the Energy Ombudsman to help us understand why customers escalate their complaints to them. This helps us to improve our internal policies and procedures to reduce the need for escalation to the Energy Ombudsman or other organisation.

Top five complaint reasons
As a percentage of the total complaints received Q2 2023 Q3 2023 Q4 2023 Q1 2024 Q2 2024
Billing 28% 33% 31% 32% 32%
Metering 17% 13% 15% 14% 13%
Payments 17% 20% 20% 24% 29%
Customer Service 10% 25% 25% 21% 17%
Credit Management 4% 4% 4% 4% 4%

We continuously strive to delivery ‘right first time’ service for our customers and don’t want you to feel it necessary to complain to get any issue resolved. However, any complaint is a great source of feedback and opportunity for us to improve, we use the insight from complaints received to learn and improve how we do things in the future. Here are some of the things that we’ve been focused on recently to improve customer experience.

 

  • We’ve simplified our bills to make them easier to understand.
  • We continue to invest in Smart meters, providing meters
    to those who want them and fixing issues with existing meters
    or IHD’s. This includes booking appointments for our brilliant
    engineers to visit you where needed.
  • We are continually reviewing payments for customers paying
    by Direct Debit, aiming to align your annual energy use to your
    payment amounts, giving more certainty and continuity
    of payments throughout the year.
  • We have launched an initiative called ‘You Pay, We Pay’ the
    first of its kind in the energy sector. We will 100% match energy
    payments made by customers who are struggling and in most
    need of our help.
  • We have made a significant investment in our customer service
    operation growing our teams by over 300 colleagues in 2024 year
    to date to make sure we are there quickly and effectively when
    you need us.
  • In Q2, we were able to answer 98% of customers who attempted
    to contact us, on average were able to answer a contact in less than
    2 minutes. We are getting to more customers and faster
    than ever before.
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    Previously reported complaints performance
    Reporting period Complaints received Received per 100k customer accounts Complaints resolved Resolved per 100k customer accounts % resolved same or next working day % resolved within 8 weeks
    Q2 2018 152,385 1,221 150,271 1,204 53.3% 91.6%
    Q3 2018 180,778 1,486 176,395 1,450 59.9% 92.3%
    Q4 2018 188,605 1,560 188,069 1,556 57.9% 92.4%
    Q1 2019 181,622 1,524 174,047 1,460 54.7% 91.2%
    Q2 2019 162,609 1,366 157,159 1,320 48.9% 90.4%
    Q3 2019 145,310 1,228 137,660 1,163 41.9% 88.9%
    Q4 2019 128,980 1,092 124,024 1,050 38.1% 87.7%
    Q1 2020 131,949 1,130 127,794 1,095 41.7% 88.7%
    Q2 2020 68,085 590 65,818 570 52.7% 87.8%
    Q3 2020 105,561 926 94,098 825 56.3% 92.3%
    Q4 2020 120,040 1,039 109,000 944 51.4% 92.3%
    Q1 2021 130,482 1,135 124,758 1,085 63.1% 92.9%
    Q2 2021 142,037 1,252 132,858 1,171 63.8% 93.3%
    Q3 2021 154,430 1,396 134,159 1,212 63.6% 93.2%
    Q4 2021 174,672 1,433 134,861 1,106 63.3% 93.0%
    Q1 2022 228,397 1,846 216,571 1,750 69.4% 97.4%
    Q2 2022 238,907 1,894 234,152 1,856 65.0% 91.3%
    Q3 2022 252,587 2,104 226,601 1,889 64.9% 91.4%
    Q4 2022 349,004 2,742 327,727 2,575 49.7% 70.9%
    Q1 2023 348,218 2,748 349,721 2,748 73.8% 87.9%
    Q2 2023 236,829 1786 197,066 1550 76.6% 97.6%
    Q3 2023 202,192 1588 192,001 1508 52.4% 87.1%
    Q4 2023 223,991 1765 213,991 1686 47.2% 87.4%
    Q1 2024 220,667 1746 229,373 1815 46.1% 83.0%

    Annual Consumer Complaint Report

    View our Annual Consumer Complaint Report, which details how we’ve performed in previous years.

    2019 - 2020 2020 - 2021 2021 - 2022 2022 - 2023 2023 - 2024

    If you would like information on making a complaint, please refer to Complaints.

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