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Energy Market Research

The liberalisation of energy markets has led to a new situation in Germany. Companies which used to be mere energy suppliers, have turned into energy service providers. Now it is differentiated between electricity, gas and water and the industry is more focused on the individual needs of customers. Therefore, market research and marketing face the challenge to transfer the established instruments to the energy market and adapt them to the industry’s special requirements.

 

TNS Infratest is your competent partner in energy market research for collecting the necessary data on electricity providers, municipal utilities, power stations, interconnection companies, huge electricity consumers (special contract customers), electricity traders, gas and water suppliers, management consulting companies and PR agencies.

 

 

Research fields:

 

  • business-to-business
  • call center satisfaction
  • copy/folder tests
  • expert interviews
  • group discussions
  • image analyses
  • Internet survey/user studies
  • customer (satisfaction/retention) analyses
  • market analyses
    (private households/companies)
  • employee surveys
  • potential analyses
  • mystery calling
  • surveys of new/defected customers
  • advertising impact analyses


 

 

Special research instruments and marketing tools:

 

 

Communications in general
Report for download
A summary of the most important tools for controlling integrated communications as a driver for brand management

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Special communications
Report for download
The traditional  tools for communications effect research in detail.

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Market research for energy market suppliers
Report for download
A comprehensive set of market research tools in the context of energy suppliers focussing on.

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Research on the impact of customer magazines
Report for download
Evaluation of the impact of customer magazines, developed in cooperation with the Forum Corporate Publishing. Evaluated are the journalistic, communicative and marketing oriented goals by means of.

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Mystery shopping / test consulting
Report for download
Service quality and personal relationship quality are evaluated. All media (Internet, call center, inside staff, energy consulting) can be used for evaluating various scenarios (information service on energy saving potentials, tariffs and bills, online enquiries and staff reaction times)

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Transferring market research data to customer databases:
Value Profiler

Report for download
No new CRM software, but a tool for integrating market research data or staff reaction times into customer data and, in addition, for detecting missing data. The missing data are then filled in by applying a method for pattern recognition and testing. Thus, the quality of the information in the customer database is considerably enhanced in a sales-oriented way.

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Special instruments:

 

Energiemonitor

Households (1,000 in October and 1,000 in December), Companies (500 in October and 500 in December), Cumulation

 

Strommonitor 2000

 

Gasmonitor 2000

 

Ausstieg aus der Kernenergie

Population representative questioning August 1998

 

Liberalisierung des Energiemarktes

Questioning of trade customers, September 1998

 

Instrumente zur Marktorientierung. Marketing, Marktforschung und externe Kommunikation aus Sicht der Führungskräfte

A TNS infratest study among 114 EVU executive committees, Bielefeld 1999

 

 

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Contact

 

TNS Infratest
Energy Market Research
Bernhard Keller
Stieghorster Strasse 66
33605 Bielefeld
Germany

 

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+49 (0)521 9257 - 483

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energy@tns-infratest.com

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