You decide. Are we your winner?

I have a favour to ask.

Can you spare a minute to rate your electricity and gas suppliers in a short public survey?

Your answers will help ensure the 2015 “Supplier of the Year” at The Energy Awards is the energy company most valued by business energy buyers like you.

It only takes one minute to complete. And who better to judge the UK’s energy companies than the people who experience what we do?

Here’s the survey. 

Have your say before 13 October and you could win 4 tickets to the awards dinner.

A quick look back over a busy year of improvements

Here are 3 areas in which we’re giving our customers a better experience this year.

1) Making electricity easier for you to buy

For small businesses: Now small businesses can get a quote for their electricity and gas supplies in under 60 seconds.

Plus there’s lots of choice.

Fixed prices if you’re happy to commit to a contract, or a variable tariff if you prefer to keep your options open. And for brave entrepreneurs, there’s New Start  – our flexible and competitive 6-9 month contract for new businesses.

For larger businesses: Instant access to the latest wholesale energy prices is now possible on mobiles, tablets and computers through our brand new Market Insight. 

Other upgrades include interactive graphs and chart, helpful commentary from our traders and analysis of all the other cost factors that affect business electricity prices. Our customers are using it nearly twice as much as before.

2) Investing in our service

For small businesses:  We give our small business customers access to their account 24/7 with MyAccount. We’ve improved this further with Live Chat to make it easy for you to reach a real person when you need us. And our new app now lets you send in your meter readings as a photograph from your smart phone. Much easier!

For large businesses: We completed a programme to replace our 19 legacy back office IT systems with a whole new platform. While change on this scale comes with some teething problems, it gives us more ways to give our customers a better service in the future. With the new system comes a new bill layout, easier to read and understand. We hope you’re finding it helpful.

3) Supporting your business

For small businesses: We’ve teamed up with UK charity Business Debt Line to launch our Recovery For Business service. This provides businesses tailored support to get back on track with all their bills (not just energy ones) We’re also helping small businesses save money on business essentials like insurance, printing, travel, broadband and more with our Business Thank Yous reward scheme.

For large businesses: Showing your customers how your business operates sustainably can help earn their loyalty. Since January, 60% of the electricity we’ve sold to mid market businesses (somewhere between small businesses and large corporates) has been our low-carbon option, Blue for Business. And with the new carbon reporting guidelines for electricity purchases, these businesses’ environmental credentials get a boost from making a more responsible choice.

That’s just a sample of the improvements we’ve made this year. If you’d like to know more, you can find updates here for our small business and large business customers. Check in from time to time. It’s a good way of checking that you’re not missing out.

Now, back to you.

The Supplier of the Year should be chosen by customers. So please find a minute to rate your suppliers. We’ve won this award twice in the last four years. I hope we’ve earned your support this year.