Gas Utility Residential Customer Satisfaction Study
As the demands of residential gas utility customers continue to evolve, it is imperative that gas utility companies stay up to date regarding their customers’ needs and expectations as well as industry trends. Utilities that understand their customers’ preferences and experiences are better able to target performance improvement initiatives that may increase overall customer satisfaction.
The Solution
The J.D. Power Gas Utility Residential Customer Satisfaction StudySM measures residential customers’ satisfaction with their gas utility in four U.S. geographic regions: East, Midwest, South and West. The study examines satisfaction across six factors: Billing and Payment; Corporate Citizenship; Price; Communications; Customer Care; and Safety & Reliability.
The study allow utilities to:
- Measure critical components that drive overall satisfaction among residential gas utility customers
- Identify the relative strengths and weaknesses of gas utilities overall and by size
- Align strategic planning and improvement initiatives with core customer expectations, desires and needs
- Benchmark customer satisfaction performance among large and midsize gas utilities throughout the United States
The Benefits
A study subscription provides access to the tools you need to gain a comprehensive, in-depth understanding of how your utility is performing from a residential customer viewpoint and to identify any areas that need improvement.
Deliverables include:
- A management discussion and on-site executive presentation that provide insights into key industry trends and study findings, allowing your utility to maximize performance and prioritize improvement initiatives
- Access to competitive data sets, allowing a comparison with peer utilities, the industry and the highest performers
- An impact simulator built around your utility’s performance on industry critical management metrics, modeling the impact of one or multiple performance improvement initiatives on customer satisfaction
- Net Promoter Score®— an independent measurement of NPS, which includes the brand-level Net Promoter Score® and verbatims, an NPS rank chart and verbatim text analytics
Net Promoter System®, Net Promoter Score®, NPS® and the NPS-related emoticons are registered trademarks of Bain & Company, Inc., Fred Reichheld and Satmetrix Systems, Inc.
