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Each month, we conduct mystery shopping calls to a cross-section of Australian Energy Retailers to provide Voice of the Customer (VoC) insights into the genuine experience customers receive when trying to connect to a live customer service employee at an Australian Energy Retailer to discuss a new connection enquiry.
Our analysis covers critical metrics such as call centre wait times, the skill of the call centre agents, hold times, and more—all assessed against the Australian Contact Centre Quality Standards, which encompass over 80 individual performance elements.
Each quarter, we publicly report on four key metrics:
Accessibility Ranking: Evaluates how quickly and easily customers can connect with a live representative, highlighting the simplicity and efficiency of the contact options.
Agent Mastery Ranking: Assesses the professionalism and effectiveness of live agents, focusing on their ability to deliver outstanding customer service across key competencies.
Overall CX Ranking: The ultimate measure of customer experience excellence, reflecting performance across all touchpoints, including accessibility and agent mastery.
Average Wait Times: Tracks the average time customers spend waiting to connect with a live agent, demonstrating the organisation’s responsiveness.
This combination provides powerful, independent insights into the call centre customer performance of Australian Energy Retailers, enabling us to ensure we provide the industry resources, skills, and insights where it matters most to help Australian Energy Retailers improve the experiences for the customer and their customers.
How the Mystery Shopping Calls are made to Australian Energy Retailers
Our Australian-based mystery shoppers are specially trained to replicate real customer enquiries, with calls made at random days and times using differing scenarios tailor-made for general energy enquiries typically related to new energy plans/switching providers.
Whilst there can always be some debate around sample sizes, ratios of FTEs to the customer base, demographics, busy periods than usual, etc, that can potentially influence results, the reality is none of that is important to a customer.
Customers only care about their call and will make all their judgements and decisions based on that one single experience, and that is what our Mystery Shopping results are designed to capture and reflect.
As we need to remain anonymous, the published results typically reflect the experience for new customer enquiries where we do not need to disclose specific billing/account information.
Existing customers with billing enquiries, faults, etc, may have a different experience as they are typically handled by different teams and/or treated with different priorities.
Australian Contact Centre Quality Standards
The Australian Contact Centre Quality Standards—refined over 30 years and 50,000 calls—provide a proven framework for assessing contact centre performance.
Why These Standards Matter
- Actionable Guidance: Practical criteria for delivering exceptional customer experiences, tailored for any contact centre.
- Proven Results: Higher satisfaction, increased sales, improved NPS, enhanced CES, and reduced AHT.
- Comprehensive Insights: Over 80 performance metrics to identify strengths and improvement opportunities.
This robust framework helps Australian energy retailers deliver outstanding customer experiences and achieve measurable business success.
Learn more about evaluating your energy business against the standards >
The Latest Australian Energy Retailers Call Centre Rankings
Each quarter, we publish updated performance data across four key metrics, along with a free quarterly sector report (below the charts) containing an executive summary with some additional insights.
This is just a fraction of the comprehensive insights available monthly to our subscribers and members.
Overall CX Leaderboard
Energy Retailers - Q4 2024
1st:Red Energy69.5%
2nd:ENGIE69.4%
3rd:Alinta Energy61.5%
Lowest:AGL Energy51.3%
Energy Sector Average60.1%
Call Centre Industry Average55.8%
Accessibility Leaderboard
Energy Retailers - Q4 2024
1st:Red Energy93.4%
2nd:ENGIE90.8%
3rd:Origin Energy80.1%
Lowest:Energy Australia52.7%
Energy Sector Average73.8%
Call Centre Industry Average69.2%
Agent Mastery Leaderboard
Energy Retailers - Q4 2024
1st:Alinta Energy63.6%
2nd:ENGIE60.2%
3rd:Red Energy59.3%
Lowest:Origin Energy41.3%
Energy Sector Average54.3%
Call Centre Industry Average51.3%
Average Wait Time Leaderboard
Energy Retailers - Q4 2024
1st:ENGIE00:04
2nd:Alinta Energy00:08
3rd:Red Energy00:14
Longest:Origin Energy03:25
Energy Sector Average00:50
Call Centre Industry Average01:21
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Retail Energy Sector Quarterly Trends - Key Metrics
How Energy Retailers have performed across the three primary metrics we assess, each informed by over 80 detailed metrics that contribute to a comprehensive evaluation of their performance.
Retail Energy Accessibility Quarterly Trends (Key Metrics)
Forced Message Time refers to the duration customers are required to listen to recorded messages in the menu, such as disclaimers. Total Menu Time is the combined time customers spend navigating and listening to all menu options before being placed in the queue. Wait Time measures the average duration from when customers are placed in the queue to when a live agent answers.
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Energy Retailers Q2 2024
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The data on this page and our free quarterly reports provides a small snapshot of the energy sector data available on our website.
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But for organisations seeking a competetive advantage, the Energy Retailers CX Benchmarking Service is a must-have solution.
What You’ll Receive:
- Detailed Performance Metrics: Access over 80 key metrics, including accessibility, agent mastery, and more.
- Competitive Benchmarking: Compare your energy business against five nominated competitors each month.
- Trend Analysis: Track quarterly and annual trends to identify areas for improvement and celebrate success.
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All ACXPA Members receive a 10% discount on the Energy Retailers CX Benchmarking Service.
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