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To all applicants of the job advertised on this site on 21 October:

Thank you for your participation in our recruitment process for the Client & Supplier Management Role. A decision has been made about the position and I’m afraid another candidate has been offered the position.

We were generally impressed by the standard of applicants, where your skills and experience, demonstrated that you patently were strong candidates for the position. At this time your skills and experience do not fit the requirements of the role as well as the final selection.

We do feel that many of you have much to offer the right role in the right organisation and would be pleased if you would consider Torse again in the future for other positions which are intended to evolve from our continuing development. We wish you well with your current endeavours.

Be part of a well established company offering career and personal development prospects, even in these volatile times. The steady growth of this Energy Brokering & Management business requires additional resource within the Client & Supplier Management Team, to help achieve our goals of improved proactive client and supplier management.

Client & Supplier Management Executive

The Torse team has been serving the Business Energy marketplace since 1998. We specialise in sensible energy procurement solutions for our clients. Experience and supportive Client Management have contributed to the excellent reputation and successful development of this business. This is a national business with an operations function based in Nottingham.

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In an effort to assist and, where possible, protect small businesses and vunerable consumers paying increasing energy costs, Ofgem have imposed a set of guidelines for energy suppliers. The Ofgem press release is attached below but a brief summary of these changes are as follows:

1. New requirements on written estimates following visits from face-to-face salespeople will come into force on 18 January 2010. Essentially, this would put an end to Contracts being signed that don’t match what was ‘promised’.

2. Doubling the threshold of debt a customer can carry and still switch supplier to £200 will come into force on 18 January 2010. This reduces the practical obstacle that has delayed many clients in the transfer process.

3. Further clarity in printed billing information [via PDF or post] from suppliers and the production of annual statements to customers if these are not already in existance from July 2010. This provides improved billing management.

4. Requirement for the six big energy companies to show more openess regarding their margins from the business community in these difficult financial times. This should enable businesses to see to what extent they are being exploited within the market.

Ofgem Assistance for SME and Consumers Press Release PDF

Whilst there seems to be an almost hysterical hype surrounding supposed alternative or green energy resources, in 2010 the UK government will be introducing a Feed-In Tariff to “help promote solar power and reduce carbon dioxide emissions” which on the face of it seems to provide genuine incentive for UK businesses to invest in solar energy with both financial and environmental benefits.

A Feed-in Tariff (FIT) provides a long-term financial incentive for people to invest in renewable energy. Under a FIT system electricity companies are obligated by governments to buy renewable electricity at above market rates.

The Feed-in Tariff will help reduce global warming, boost UK clean-tech jobs and reward people for installing solar power.

It is important the Feed-in Tariff is set at the correct rate. If it’s too low the potential for a massive increase in the UKs solar energy could be lost, and we could be left behind the rest of Europe.
We Support Solar website

Find out more about this by visiting the We Support Solar website and you can show your support for solar energy and the potential uses for business and domestic buildings by registering your interest in this scheme.