Whilst the new Torse head office building could accurately be described as ‘old’, as they are Grade II listed buildings in the revitalised Lace Market area of Nottingham City Centre, we are excited about our new workspace in this vibrant area. A fair amount of preparation needs to be done first and but we will be moving into these attractive new premises soon! The move reflects an opportunity with the much increased space to build our client and supplier management teams, our data management and sustainability functions to enhance the levels of proactive support for Clients. There will be improved training and presentation facilities for internal activities and client and supplier visits.

Torse has been working in conjunction with ETC, The Environmental Technology Centre at Nottingham University, to balance Energy Management wishes with Conservation Area requirements. We have also been in discussion as to whether the Torse building could be linked into the Enviroenergy heating and energy network, although this may be a longer term project.

We will update you with more news and images soon. We look forward to meeting you at our new premises!

[/caption]British Gas have canceled their annual conference. This may well have been an excellent opportunity to hear BGB extolling their Smart meter successes, or reassuring businesses that slashing more than £100 million out of back Office Staff wouldn’t impact on Service Levels.

Businesses were probably as keen to try and understand how BGB’s current focus on increasing the value extracted from Business users would sit with a professed intention to offer high levels of service to SME groups.
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We frequently see suppliers hauled over the coals in the media, albeit usually the domestic market. However, what’s causing much consternation is the fact that despite some legislative changes at the smaller end of the SME ‘Micro Business’ market, the business energy market seems in thrall still to the new energy oligopoly. (see www.torse.co.uk/pirates-energy-companies/ ). It shouldn’t be too much of a surprise, an industry with fundamental barriers to entry, big players, weak governance and little legislation has enabled the Energy companies to take a fairly cynical stance towards their markets.
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The Government has passed legislation requiring all suppliers to replace both Electricity and Gas meters with automatic meters for all (but the smallest) businesses by 6th April 2010. It might sound a long way away, but they will have to change 200,000 meters.

Guess who pays? The government has allowed suppliers to pass on all the costs to businesses. This will be either through your supply contract (much the same as it is for most businesses at the moment) or a separate AMR Metering contract. This will inevitably cause some confusion when Renewing or changing your Gas and Electricity supply contracts; the business or whoever looks after your Energy Supply arrangements will generally be able to assist in this area. This information really belongs to the business and so you can sort out all your own metering arrangements and not just keep paying the supplier.

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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.

Looks like some good news to come out of The Queen’s Presentation to the Nation. Further to some of our comments last month (see Pirates & Energy Companies) about legislation appearing on the horizon, sailing to the rescue of not only Consumers but Business as well, looks like there will be real regulations in place. Not only that, finally, maybe OFGEM will get some teeth. The general contempt with which much of the supplier base treats businesses may be about to change.

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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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