Npower Celebrates 'Consumer Supplier of the Year' Award Win

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Sep 14, 2010, 01:10 ET

WORCESTER, England, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- npower is celebrating after being presented with 'The Consumer Supplier of the Year' award at the first ever Energy Event Awards. The award recognises the supplier that has excelled in providing industrial and commercial consumers with an outstanding service, product or innovation.

The awards are a new addition to the annual Energy Event, which took place at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham on 8-9th September 2010. The awards recognise and reward achievements in the energy industry, celebrating the suppliers and businesses that are bringing new ideas and innovations to how energy is used and managed.

The award was presented to David Cockshott, director of industrial and commercial markets at npower. He said: "It's brilliant that npower has been recognised as 'The Consumer Supplier of the Year'. We are particularly proud of the accolade because we were nominated by our own industrial and commercial business customers, and we'd like to thank them for their support."

David continued: "Offering our customers the best service is at the forefront of everything npower does and we strive to give businesses flexibility in how they buy their energy and to work in partnership with them to meet their energy needs.

"The judges also highlighted our Optimisation Desk as a key element of winning the award. This unique service allows our customers to access market developments, price analysis, trading information and updates and gives them a clear understanding of their position to help them to make more informed purchasing decisions."

The Energy Event is one of Europe's largest exhibitions and conferences and focuses solely on energy procurement, management and efficiency. This year it was attended by over 110 exhibitors, including npower, and provided the opportunity for attendees to visit suppliers, view the latest technologies and network with other people in the energy industry.

The Energy Event Awards were hosted at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel (NEC) on the evening of 8 September.

About npower:

npower is one of the top energy suppliers to the UK business market, serving over 238,000 small to medium sized enterprise sites and around 17,000 industrial and commercial customers, with over 100,000 sites.

npower is dedicated to helping UK businesses use energy more efficiently and therefore spend less money on their bills. The company aims to have a positive impact on the communities it serves and reduce its customers' carbon footprint whilst always improving service to our customers.

npower supplies green energy to Wembley Stadium and the Liberty Stadium in Swansea.

npower specialises in risk management solutions, including market-leading flexible energy purchasing, energy efficiency, and broader energy management functions, tailored to every size of business.

npower is committed to helping its small business customers to improve their energy efficiency. Since 2006 the 'e3' campaign (standing for energy, efficiency, environment) has offered business customers advice and guidance on reducing energy consumption. New business customers receive an energy monitor designed to improve their consumption awareness as well as access to a dedicated energy efficiency telephone helpline and website.

For major energy users, npower offers multi-utility management consultancy to enable organisations to improve efficiencies right across the procurement/consumption chain.

npower customers include BT, AstraZeneca and Sainsbury's.