CHICAGO, Feb. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Peoples Gas is
the most improved brand in customer satisfaction among natural gas
utilities in the J.D. Power 2020 Gas Utility Business Customer
Satisfaction Study. The company earned an overall satisfaction
index score of 822 in the Midwest, an improvement of 53 points over
its 2019 score.
J.D. Power surveyed more than 9,600 business customers from 60
natural gas utilities across four regions, each serving more than
25,000 business customers. Overall satisfaction was measured across
six categories: safety and reliability, billing and payment,
corporate citizenship, customer service, price, and communications.
Satisfaction was calculated on a 1,000-point scale.
Peoples Gas logged double-digit gains in all categories. The
largest improvement in satisfaction came in corporate citizenship.
Peoples Gas also made strong gains in its communications score, as
the company made efforts to improve outreach to business customers
on energy efficiency, safety and other issues.
The Peoples Gas Energy Efficiency Program has helped more than
4,000 business customers make improvements in their facilities and
reduce their energy usage. Since the program began nine years ago,
customers have received $35 million
in incentives and saved more than 29 million therms of natural gas,
a carbon dioxide reduction equivalent of taking more than 33,000
cars off the road.
"We are more focused than ever on our commitment to provide
customers the safe and reliable service they count on every day to
operate their businesses and keep our communities thriving," said
Charles Matthews, president and CEO
— Peoples Gas. "Even during a pandemic, our employees continued
making improvements to better serve our customers."
For more information about the Gas Utility Business Customer
Satisfaction Study,
visit https://www.jdpower.com/business/utilities/gas-utility-business-customer-satisfaction-study.
About Peoples Gas
Peoples Gas, a subsidiary of WEC
Energy Group (NYSE: WEC), is a regulated natural gas delivery
company that serves more than 867,000 residential, commercial and
industrial customers in the city of Chicago. You can find more information about
natural gas safety, energy efficiency and other energy-related
topics at peoplesgasdelivery.com. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook
@peoplegaschi.
J.D. Power is a global leader in consumer insights,
advisory services and data and analytics. A pioneer in the use of
big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic modeling
capabilities to understand consumer behavior, J.D. Power has been
delivering incisive industry intelligence on customer interactions
with brands and products for more than 50 years. The world's
leading businesses across major industries rely on J.D. Power to
guide their customer-facing strategies.
J.D. Power is headquartered in Troy,
Mich., and has offices in North
America, Europe and
Asia Pacific. To learn more about
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