Call the Rebel team on 0345 528 0195.

Our office hours are 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday.

Email us at complaints@rebelenergy.com.

Or, if you prefer, write to us at Rebel Energy Supply Limited, Bedford Heights, 421 Brickhill Drive, Bedford, MK41 7PH.

When you contact us, we’d be grateful if you could provide us with:

1. Your contact details or account number
2. The problem you’re facing, how it came about, and the impact it’s having on you
3. Your preferred solution.

We’ll raise a complaint in relation to your account and try to fix it immediately. If we can’t fix it immediately, we’ll give you a timeframe as to when we can.

Our energy experts can take full ownership of your complaint. They’re trained extensively in all areas, from metering to billing. And they’re empowered to make management-level decisions. We continually run refresher training to keep up with changing technologies. The expert that raises your complaint is responsible for it from beginning to end, so you won’t have to keep explaining yourself.

We want to offer the best customer service we can each and every day. We believe we have a responsibility to our customers to do this and there is a desire in the Rebel team to deliver against this. Even so, there will be times when things go wrong, or not as our customers expect, and we want to be held accountable for that. We want our customers to let us know when they are not satisfied, so we can work with them to resolve their complaint and identify opportunities to prevent these things from happening again and to continuously improve.

We see complaints as a vital source of customer feedback. As uncomfortable as the feedback might be, we need our customers to tell us what isn’t working for them and we commit to doing better.

We want to share with you how we are performing and what we are learning from what our customers are telling us:

For the last three months of 2023, our average telephone wait time was 309 seconds and we responded to 57% of our emails within 2 days. Improving these response times has been a primary focus for us so far this year and, so far, we have demonstrated a significant improvement. A complaint is defined as any expressions of dissatisfaction by one of our customers. We are committed to listening carefully to any complaints and responding quickly and decisively to resolve the situation to our customers’ satisfaction. Our complaints performance is as follows:

Reporting Period	Complaints Received	Received per 10K customer accounts	Complaints resolved	Resolved per 10K customer accounts	Resolved the same or next working day	Resolved in 8 weeks or less
Q4 2023	136	18.1	30	4.0	30.0%	96.7%

Our highest reasons for customer complaints quartering Q4 2023 were:

Billing and meter reading issues unrelated with meter type	28.7%
Payment Issues	14.0%
Billing and meter reading issues related with smart meters	9.6%
Customer service	9.6%
Switching issues unrelated with meter type	9.6%

Billing

We know how important it is for us to provide customer bills which are timely and accurate. To do this we need to ensure we have actual meter readings provided by customers aligned to their billing cycle or sourced from their smart meters. We are committed to continuing to roll out smart meters to customers to enable them to track their consumption of energy and associated cost. We are also continuing to focus on our self-serve capability to make it easier for customers to submit their own readings and provide notifications to customers to make them aware of the optimum time to do this.

We are focused on continuous improvement and using customer feedback to influence where we should make improvements. Billing is a real priority as we seek to deliver process improvements whilst exploring technology solutions that will move us closer towards every customer receiving accurate bills when they expect them.

Payment Issues

Paying your bill should be an easy and straightforward thing to do . We actively encourage customers to set up a direct debit so that they have the comfort of knowing how much their monthly payment will be. We are reviewing our end to end direct debit process to ensure that these are set up correctly so that our customers can have complete confidence that their payment will be taken as expected.

We do understand that direct debit isn’t for everyone and therefore we do accept payments on our website and we provide a payment link. We are exploring other technology so that our customers are able to select the way they would prefer to pay.

Customer Service

Everything we do, we do with the customer at the forefront of our minds. We are constantly looking for ways to better support our customers and taking on board customer feedback to do this. We are committed to making sure we have customer-centric people delivering a customer focused service. We are continuing to grow the Rebel team and ensuring new colleagues have the best onboarding experience possible to support our customers. We also regularly carry out knowledge checks and upskill opportunities for our existing colleagues to make sure we are all able to deliver the best customer experience possible.

We are investing in technology for both our colleagues and our customers. We want to make it as easy as possible to access and manage your energy account.

Switching

When you’re switching to a new energy provider you want and expect the process to be smooth. Although this is the case for the vast majority of customers joining Rebel, there are occasional issues that we need to improve on. We are using customer feedback to make sure we are focusing on the right things to achieve this. In the last quarter we have worked to improve the speed and accuracy of opening meter readings so we can set up new customer accounts quickly and with all the right information. We are also continuing to review our customer communications to ensure that they are all clear, concise and explain to our new customers what to expect as they come on supply with Rebel.

We want to provide a service that is tailored to the needs of our customers

We understand that customers circumstances can change and also that customers may have certain needs that rely on the availability of their energy supply. We offer a range of additional ‘priority’ services to customers in certain vulnerable circumstances.

Eligibility criteria includes people who:

1. are of a pensionable age
2. are disabled or have a long term medical condition
3. have a mental health condition
4. have a hearing or sight condition
5. are pregnant or have children under the age of 5
6. have extra communication needs, such as not speaking or reading English

If you would like to hear more about the PSR and find out if you are eligible then please get in touch with us.

We currently have 1926 (4.3%) customers registered on the Priority Services Register (PSR) recognising they have shared relevant information with us regarding their circumstances.