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Government's Core Merger Objectives

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Positioning the new merged entity of Ergon Energy and Energex as a customer-oriented, efficient business is one of the Government’s core merger objectives. In this update, we’re taking a closer look at how the customer team within the Future Operating Model workstream is rethinking the way the merged entity will interact with its customers and deliver the objectives. These include maintaining strong community trust; achieving sustainable prices; providing customers with greater choice; delivering efficiency savings to enable better customer outcomes; ensure high levels of safety, reliability and product excellence; and providing modern and contemporary products and services.
What is the customer team focussed on?
We’re looking at the strategic …show more content…

 More control over home energy consumption.
 Consistent and cost-effective high levels of service.
Why is a customer focus critical?
Customers are central to our future business success and viability. Changing energy market conditions are increasing the power of customers and raising expectations; this brings a unique opportunity to be a customer experience leader.
In the distribution business, adopting a customer-centric approach now will ensure we are positioned to succeed as the market opens to competition.
Being flexible and responsive to changing market trends and customer needs will ensure that the distribution business, with the network at its core, acts as a key enabler of new technologies, and remains central to the Queensland energy landscape of the future.
In retail, providing choice and flexibility to our customers will allow us to protect value in regional Queensland, and deliver enhanced outcomes for our customers. Finally, taking a customer-centric approach in the new Energy Services business will be crucial to drive responsive and tailored innovation, and ensure that we maintain strong relationships with our supply chain …show more content…

We recognise that customer needs differ across our key customer groups and business divisions/units, so we need to provide a tailored level of service to them, in line with their unique needs.
Across both the distribution and retail businesses, mass market customers are seeking a seamless, effortless, convenient and low cost customer experience. We will continue to invest in digital channels, with self-serve capability, and will focus on ensuring our customer functions deliver a low cost to serve, and provide a timely, consistent response to customer needs. In the retail space, we will also focus on providing greater choice and flexibility to our customers, and enabling predictability around pricing.
Large commercial and industrial customers are seeking more proactive engagement with our businesses, with a single point of contact and accountability, consistent experience across their interactions, and the provision of tailored and commercially-driven solutions to meet their unique needs. We will bring an increased lens of commerciality to decisions in the distribution business, particularly in customer-requested works, and will provide more responsive and tailored solutions in the retail sector, increasing choice for our

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