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2009年12月16日星期三

Opus Energy - Opus Energy launches gas bazaar service

Store this angel in big sizeIn acknowledgment to chump demand, the UK’s better absolute business activity supplier, Opus Energy, has broadcast its bazaar portfolio to action a new gas account to baby and average (SME) businesses.

The gas account offers barter a bright addition to absolute bazaar suppliers and includes abounding of the accepted allowances already accessible with Opus’ acknowledged electricity products. Customers will accept acceptance to competitively priced, fixed-term contracts, careful them from gas bazaar amount fluctuations. Existing electricity barter will abide to accept the aforementioned top accepted of chump affliction with the affluence of alone accepting one supplier.

The activity supplier currently provides electricity to over 60,000 sites above the UK and access into the gas bazaar is proving successful. Since the aboriginal accumulation went abide in the average of October 2009, sales accept exceeded expectations, with over 1,000 barter already active up.

Opus Energy has the adaptability to buy gas from a amount of bazaar sources and is accordingly able to acknowledge bound to bazaar amount changes, and canyon cost-savings anon assimilate customers. The gas account will initially be marketed to absolute and new SME customers.

Charlie Crossley Cooke, architect and Managing Director of Opus Energy, said:

“Opus Energy has auspiciously been bartering electricity to the business bazaar for seven years. We’ve accomplished cogent advance based on our aggressive pricing, aberrant akin of chump account and an incremental advance strategy. We accept responded to the top akin of chump appeal for gas articles and will administer the aforementioned attempt to ensure that we become a aboriginal amount gas supplier.

“The amplification of the gas account will be developed to ensure we abide to see all-embracing aggregation advance and advance the top levels of chump account accepted from Opus Energy.”

Businesses can accept a aggressive online adduce for gas casework by visiting www.opusenergy.com or calling 0845 0405810.

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Notes to editors

Opus Energy is a arch absolute supplier of gas and electricity to UK businesses. With offices in Northampton and Oxford, Opus Energy employs over 230 people. Opus Energy food over 50,000 UK business sites above all bazaar sectors. Large barter include: Stagecoach, Thorntons, Farmfoods, FirstGroup, and John Lewis. Opus Energy’s administration aggregation has a 50 per cent pale in the business, while International Power Plc (LSE:IPR.L) holds 30 per cent and Telecom Plus Plc (LSE: TEP.L ) has 20 per cent.

For added advice about Opus Energy, amuse see www.opusenergy.com

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Opus Energy Ltd
Opus House
285 Banbury Road
Oxford
OX2 7JF

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Georgina Ruttle / Leo Wood
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T. 0207 269 7255 / 7137
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Opus Energy - Opus Energy expands Oxford aggregation to advance new cutting-edge product

10 June 2008 - Oxford-based Opus Energy, a arch absolute activity supplier, has broadcast its Corporate Solutions aggregation with the adjustment of a new Product Manager, Jon Daniels, aforetime with British Gas Business and Enron Direct.

Bringing with him over seven years’ acquaintance in bartering utilities, Jon has been brought on axle to added the development of Opus Evolution. This new web-based artefact is an avant-garde band-aid alms barter absolute acceptance to broad electricity prices. His key focus will be on agreeable with barter who use the product, active approaching artefact enhancements and allowance Opus Energy abound its accumulated base.

Steve James, Commercial Director at Opus Energy, said: “At this acute time in the development of Opus Evolution, we are captivated to accept Jon accompany the Corporate Solutions team. His cogent account bazaar acquaintance accompanying with his activity and accelerating access will accord conspicuously to Opus Evolution’s advance and the account our barter receive.”

New Product Manager, Jon Daniels said: “I am aflame to be abutting Opus Energy, and be complex in allowance appearance the company’s beginning and avant-garde ideas. In my role, I will focus on Opus Evolution, a new artefact at the beginning of the electricity market. The artefact gives barter acceptance to broad activity prices alms adaptability that is capital for companies to optimise their purchasing strategies and advice ascendancy the anytime accretion amount of energy.”

Opus Energy Press Office
Georgina Ruttle / Susie Patterson
T. 0207 269 7255 / 7233
E. georgina.ruttle@fd.com / susie.patterson@fd.com

Opus Energy is a arch absolute supplier of electricity to UK businesses, based in Northampton. It has over 40,000 barter above the country, including Yell Group, Stagecoach, Thorntons, Stagecoach, Farmfoods and Deloitte & Touche. Opus offers companies best-price electricity calm with tailored chump care. Its flexible, custom-built solutions clothing businesses above the SME and beyond accumulated market.

Between April 2006 and March 2007, 66% of the activity supplied by Opus Energy to its barter came from cleaner, low-carbon sources – 47% from renewable generators and 19% from cleaner Combined Heat and Power (CHP) produced by CHP generators.

With offices in Northampton and Oxford, it employs 194 people.

For added information, amuse see www.opusenergy.com

Opus Energy - Small businesses to carve bartering and biking spend

Graph to appearance baby business cutbacksStore this angel in big sizeNearly 40% of Britain’s baby businesses are planning to cut their budgets for bartering and business biking (37%) in adjustment to acclimate the recession, a new analysis has found.

The YouGov survey, commissioned by absolute electricity supplier Opus Energy, polled over 500 baby business owners and managers to ascertain area they would be acid aback during the accepted bread-and-butter downturn. Business biking and bartering absorb were top of the account for account cuts in about one in 5 baby businesses (19 and 18% respectively).

The analysis aswell begin that the beyond the company, the added acceptable it is that agents will face cuts to their bonuses. Indeed, a third (33%) of the better companies surveyed (employing up to 50 people) said that agent bonuses would be the aboriginal across they would rein in.

Interestingly, if asked which areas cutbacks were the atomic acceptable during recession, a division of baby businesses (25%) were bent they would not abate spending on IT. Employees can aswell blow assured that day to day agents allowances were the additional atomic acceptable across to face cutbacks during difficult times. 16% of managers vowed not to abate spending on account for advisers such as biscuits, tea and coffee and entertainment, which can advice advance basic agents assurance decidedly in a black bread-and-butter climate.

Andy Nash, Operations Director at Opus Energy said, “While some amount can be had from accent balance spending on business biking and bartering budgets, it is hasty that a analysis of account bills does not appear college up the list. Only 3% of baby businesses said they would analysis their gas or electricity tariffs in adjustment to accomplish business savings. This broadly disregarded across can accommodate basic accumulation for companies and accomplish added of an appulse on their basal band than added areas. Indeed, Carbon Trust analysis shows that artlessly ecology activity ability in the abode could advice companies save over 12% on their bills."

Notes to Editors

All figures, unless contrarily stated, are from YouGov Plc. Total sample admeasurement was 536 adults who are clandestine area workers in companies of beneath than 50 advisers who are chief administration akin or above, with above accommodation authoritative ascribe in at atomic one of the afterward areas: Advertising/ Direct Marketing / PR, Business Development/ Sales, Company credit/ allegation cards, Company adaptable phones, Company Pension Scheme, Finance/ Accounting, HR/ Personnel, IT/ Telecoms, Line of Production/ Operations, Procurement/ purchasing, Recruitment, Training & Development. Fieldwork was undertaken amid 3rd - 8th December 2008. The analysis was agitated out online

Carbon Trust, Smart metering

The Carbon Trust afresh undertook acute metering trials and the results
showed that acute metering, if accumulated with burning abstracts and
energy-saving advice, could accord abeyant boilerplate accumulation of 12%. www.carbontrust.co.uk/technology/technologyaccelerator/ad...

About Opus Energy

Opus Energy is a arch absolute supplier of electricity alms custom-built solutions for the UK SME and accumulated markets. Its market-leading innovations are apprenticed by chump needs and the aggregation is committed to allowance businesses become added environmentally amenable through accretion of activity from cleaner sources.

Opus Energy has over 40,000 barter above all sectors. Large barter include: Yell Group, Thorntons, Farmfoods, Cumbria County Council and Deloitte & Touche.

Over the endure two years (between April 2006 and March 2008), 62% of the activity supplied by Opus Energy to its barter came from cleaner, low-carbon sources – 54% from renewable generators and 8% from cleaner Combined Heat and Power (CHP) produced by CHP generators. These CHP generators accept been awarded accreditation by the regulator, Ofgem, for bearing cleaner, added environmentally affable power.

Opus Energy’s administration aggregation has a 50 percent pale in the business, while International Power Plc (LSE:IPR.L) holds 30 percent and Telecom Plus Plc (LSE: TEP.L ) has 20 percent. With offices in Northampton and Oxford, it employs 200 people.

For added information, amuse see www.opusenergy.com

Opus Energy Limited
Opus House
285 Banbury Road
Oxford
OX2 7JF

Opus Energy Press Office

Georgina Ruttle / Susie Patterson
T. 0207 269 7255 / 7233
E. georgina.ruttle@fd.com / susie.patterson@fd.com