View the Q2 2024 Energy Retailers Call Centre Rankings with average wait times, customer service quality, answer percentage and lots more!
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.
Call Centre Wait Times for Australian Energy Retailers, the quality of customer service provided by the Australian Energy Retailers, hold times, number of menu options and more are all assessed using the Australian Contact Centre Quality Standards, which contain over 80 different individual performance elements.
Each quarter, we publicly report on four key metrics:
- The ACCESS score measures how easy it was to connect to a live contact centre agent at an Australian Energy Retailer, which includes metrics such as call centre wait times, the number of IVR options, talk times and more.
- The CUSTOMER SERVICE score measures the customer service skills of the contact centre agent across five core competencies and over 30 individual elements.
- AVERAGE WAIT TIME - the time it takes for the call to be answered after the customer has navigated through the menu options and has been placed into a queue, to the time the call is answered by a live customer service agent.
- The CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE score measures performance on the competencies that most influence customer satisfaction and is used to determine the overall ranking results.
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.
ACXPA members gain access to additional monthly reports they can download, along with year-to-date and lifetime average data.
Plus, as an ACXPA Member, you'll gain access to a range of industry best practices, resources, training, and support to help you deliver efficient and effective customer experiences.
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 Energy Retailers are assessed against the Australian Contact Centre Quality Standards, which we have refined for over 30 years and 50,000 calls.
The Quality Standards we use:
- Provide clear guidance on what is required to deliver a good customer experience via the contact centre regardless of size, sector, product or service.
- Uses scores that have a direct correlation to business outcomes - when businesses consistently achieve above 'Met Standards', there is a direct correlation to improved results however you measure them – Customer Satisfaction, Sales Conversions, Net Promoter Score (NPS), Customer Effort Score, improved efficiency, reduced AHT etc.
- Provide insights you can act on - there is no point having data for 'data's sake'. The whole idea of benchmarking and standards is to help you identify specific areas in which you excel and specific areas in which you need to work on to improve business outcomes. Our Standards enable you to hone in on over 80 different performance elements, ensuring no stone is left unturned!
The Latest Australian Energy Retailers Call Centre Rankings
Each quarter, we publicly release the leaderboards for the top three and lowest Australian Energy Retailers on this page for four key metrics:
- Customer Experience Ranking - the ultimate recognition!
- Most Accessible - how easy it was to connect to a live person.
- Best Customer Service - the quality of the customer service interaction with the live person.
- Best Wait Times - the average time to get through to a live person.
Below are just four metrics - each month, there are over 80 metrics available!
ACXPA Members can view all key metrics, and if you purchase the Contact Centre CX Benchmarking monthly reports for your energy retail business, you'll be able to see all benchmarking data for your contact centre and any five energy retailers you'd like to benchmark your performance against.
Best CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
Australian Energy Retailers - Q2 2024
1st:Red Energy70.1%
2nd:ENGIE66.2%
3rd:Energy Australia57.3%
Lowest:Alinta Energy40.8%
ENERGY SECTOR AVE55.2%
INDUSTRY AVE53.1%
Best ACCESS
Australian Energy Retailers - Q2 2024
1st:Red Energy91.4%
2nd:ENGIE87.2%
3rd:Origin Energy73.9%
Lowest:Alinta Energy34.8%
ENERGY SECTOR AVE67.7%
INDUSTRY AVE65.1%
BEST CUSTOMER SERVICE
Australian Energy Retailers - Q2 2024
1st:Energy Australia66.6%
2nd:Red Energy60.9%
3rd:ENGIE57.3%
Lowest:Origin Energy36.5%
ENERGY SECTOR AVE52.3%
INDUSTRY AVE53.3%
Best WAIT TIME
Australian Energy Retailers - Q2 2024
1st:ENGIE00:13
2nd:Red Energy00:27
3rd:Alinta Energy00:38
Longest:Energy Australia02:29
ENERGY SECTOR AVE01:02
INDUSTRY AVE02:07
Australian Energy Retailers Quarterly Reports
Click on a quarterly report below to view our executive summary for the quarter, along with the Highest/Lowest Leaderboards for a range of metrics.
Monthly Reports and Trends data is also available for ACXPA Members, and if you'd like to access the full data (over 80 metrics) for your call centre and any five Energy Retailers you nominate, view our Contact Centre CX Benchmarking service >
Energy Retailers Q1 2024
View the Q1 2024 Energy Retailers Call Centre Rankings with average wait times, customer service quality, answer percentage and lots more!
Interested in Viewing Over 80 Voice of Customer Insights for Your Energy Business Every Month?
Purchase our Contact Centre CX Benchmarking Service, and you’ll receive the following:
- Mystery Shopping results for your energy business, with each call assessed across over 80 different metrics - including the quality assessor’s notes, the employee’s name (where provided) and the full call recording.
- Benchmarking data for any five Energy Retailers that you nominate so you can compare your performance against other Energy Retailers that matter to you.
- Aggregate Energy Sector data for all the energy retailers we assess to provide you with sector-wide results to further compare your results.
- A monthly email with data to track your performance.
- A quarterly report containing insights and trends that are easy to understand, along with personalised, actionable recommendations to help improve your performance.
- An optional Quarterly Insights workshop for your team (conducted live via Zoom) that can provide additional insights, coaching and guidance.
- Access to best-practice training that will deliver improved results for both your customers and your business.
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