Energy

Energy Services

Experts with experience in the energy sector
We have specialists with vast experience in the energy sector.

A flexible outsourcer to the energy sector

Most people in the USA will use the services of an energy company at least once a day, but it’s a challenging business to be in right now. With tight profit margins and rising costs, our offshoring solutions can help your business maintain a profit.

This can be achieved in multiple ways:
  • reduced operating costs
  • reducing losses through settlements
  • retaining existing customers
  • winning the right new customers
  • maximizing revenue through better billing
  • support of smart meter installation

 

We have experts with experience who can find solutions to the challenges you are facing, in every area of your business.

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Industry expertise

Ben Jones
Chief Commercial Officer

Before joining Sigma Connected, Ben spent 20 years working in energy markets, navigating through many of the opportunities and challenges of the industry.

“My goal is to get the best outcomes for customers while ensuring they have to use minimum effort. I’m also passionate about finding ways to support customers in fuel poverty.”

Industry expertise

Rob Sawle
Director of Energy Services

With a background of two decades in energy retail across the whole customer lifecycle, Rob’s detailed knowledge of the energy market ensures we are right on point with the knowledge and skills required to support our energy clients in a dynamic and ever changing landscape.

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A trusted contact center partner to the energy industry

Focusing on connections between people, we deliver back, middle and front office customer contact solutions to the energy sector across the whole customer lifecycle.

Your business is different to your competitors, with different requirements, and we tailor our offshore and onshore solutions to meet current and changing needs.

We also run an Energy Innovations Lab, bringing together people who have extensive experience working in the sector across a variety of roles. By pooling their knowledge, they are able to solve challenges faced by your business and your customers.

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We offer a range of services for debt recovery solutions, from early-stage collections to late-stage collections, on to our own DCA.

Some clients appoint us to manage the entire end-to-end process, while others utilize different aspects of our service offering to deliver outstanding results.

Our debt collection services typically involve providing specialist teams for a range of outbound and inbound campaigns. Our services are set up to meet your specific requirements and ways of working, and we pride ourselves on our agility and flexibility, setting up delivery within two weeks of taking the brief.

Once a new customer has chosen to switch energy suppliers, it’s critical that their onboarding process is as smooth as possible.

At Sigma Connected, we focus on creating a connection between our clients and their customers, creating a positive experience and building brand loyalty.

Operating in the USA, UK, South Africa and Australia, we have proven our ability to provide a full range of services to energy companies which require long-term support or assistance with short-term spikes in demand.

With consumers demanding quicker response times in the digital age, communication channels are expanding. Customers expect a seamless experience, regardless of the device or communication channel they choose. They want to pick up where they left off on one channel and continue the experience on another.

These changes in communication channels present an opportunity for you and your business. Email and web chat can be handled very effectively through cost-effective offshore services and we have the technology to create an omnichannel, seamless experience for your customers.

We will support all customer contact through our offshore team in South Africa.

Around 50% of energy consumers are dissatisfied with the way in which their complaints are handled, and an even higher percentage of customers are dissatisfied with the response time.

This is a key area of focus for us. We do things differently, providing resources in a low-cost offshore location in South Africa, and we can help you offer the service expected from your customers.

With expertise and experience in the energy sector, we can represent your brand appropriately.

We offer a range of services for early-stage to late-stage debt collections. We can manage the entire end-to-end process or deliver selected services to work alongside your internal processes and staff.

Our team of customer advisors who focus on early contact are specialists in the crucial early stages of the arrears process. They provide support and appropriate solutions to your customers who are struggling to pay their debt, before it becomes unmanageable.

We also ensure a seamless transition between early and late collections with our in-house agency, McLaren Credit Services.

In addition to customer contact services, we provide cost effective back-office processing. Our South African operation provides the perfect solution for complex activities or processes that require customer contact.

These services include:

  • Email enquiries that require voice contact
  • Metering queries
  • Erroneous transfers
  • Settlements
  • Feed in tariff
  • Prepayment misdirected payments
  • Change of occupier
  • Middle office work (handoffs from call center)
  • Commissioning or re-commissioning of smart meters
  • Direct debit reassessment

Financial hardship can affect anyone and can be caused by a huge range of situations including illness, stress and the disadvantages people face. These situations and circumstances can also change from day to day.

Our customer advisors are experienced at identifying vulnerability and potential vulnerability, and they can connect with your customers to offer the necessary support. Regular contact can be maintained with your customers to continue support and to take pre-emptive practical measures to help them.

Treating your customers fairly is part of our DNA and we can offer them support with regular conversations around affordability assessments, relevant hardship schemes and free money advice.

Our award winning ReachOut service also helps a growing number of our clients to engage with customers who have disengaged and who potentially have problem debt.

Over half the US population have smart meters installed, which brings fresh challenges for energy companies.

This means there are many millions of prepayment meters still to be fitted, which will require appointments to be booked, while customers are already facing issues with how the fitted meters operate.

We can support you with both these challenges. As a specialist in the energy sector, our team already fixes hundreds of smart meter issues every day, through remote processes and engineer visits.

At Sigma Connected, we have the geographic reach, the knowledge and the flexibility to help you meet your customers’ demands.

Get in touch with our team today

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