Midlands-based WilSon Energy, a leading provider of fully integrated heating, metering, pre-payment, billing and bureau services for residential homes and commercial developments, has announced the expansion of its team with six new appointments.

The appointments follow a period of sustained growth for the Newark-based business, leading to a proactive recruitment drive to meet customer demand.

In addition to several new client wins, WilSon Energy has seen increased demand for its support with billing and bureau management services. Earlier this year, the firm also secured a large-scale Heating Interface Unit (HIU) service and maintenance contract for a major utility provider.

The six new recruits will be working across the whole business.

Joining the customer support team is Adam Waby, who returns to the business, focusing on supporting our field engineers and internal technical support, as well as Emma Tomlinson. Emma also previously worked at WilSon around five years ago in the billing and bureau department has now returned to the business with renewed enthusiasm after getting married and having two children.

Sami Zaqiri has been recruited to the role of field service engineer. Having worked extensively has an HIU service engineer for several years, Sami has in-depth sector experience as well as general plumbing and heating knowledge. James Hawley has also joined the business as a field service engineer and similarly to Sami, has also worked in this area extensively, after a career in the military.

Shannon Haywood has joined the post pay billing and bureau team again bringing with her a wealth of customer service skills. Chris Rathore has taken up a sales role and is responsible for new billing and bureau and pre-payment contracts. In addition to this he works extensively with new utility connections, fiscal meters and energy procurement.

Finally, Steve Burn moves to head of mechanical and electrical project management.  For the last couple of years, he has worked successfully delivering a number of multi-utility projects in the residential sector.

Andy Wilkinson, CEO at WilSon Energy, said: “WilSon Energy has seen significant growth in the last 12 months with new contract wins in Heat Network and District Heating schemes across a wide portfolio of residential and commercial developments. We have also seen growth in our Energy Billing and Bureau solutions and these appointments are testament to that success and our proactive approach to meeting customer demand for our extensive range of services.

“We are pleased to bring these new staff members on board at an exciting time for the business and wish them a long and rewarding career with us.”

For more information about WilSon Energy and its integrated heating and billing solutions, visit: https://wilsonenergy.co.uk/billing-and-bureau-services/.

Newark-based WilSon Energy is proud to confirm its sponsorship of local double board darts team RHP Darts of Hazzard.

The agreement will see WilSon Energy sponsor the team’s shirts and a range of equipment for the next double board darts season, which started last month. The new shirts will also promote the team’s familiar catchphrase, “Nobody likes to see that”, which is often expressed when a dart doesn’t go the team’s way.

Having originated in France, the traditional game of darts, often played in pubs, has morphed into various UK regional forms over the years. While many have died out over time, one form that has survived, is actively used in the Newark-Upon-Trent pub league, where the game is played on a doubles dart board of the Lincoln format.

In contrast to a traditional board, a double dart board has no different coloured segments or trebles and the bullseye doesn’t have the twenty-five-point surround.

The RHP Darts of Hazzard, whose home turf is the RHP Sports and Social Club, are regular competitors in the Newark and District Double Darts League, taking on other regional teams in a series of seasonal fixtures.

Andy Wilkinson, CEO at WilSon Energy, said: “We’re really pleased to be supporting the RHP Darts of Hazzard with this latest sponsorship deal.

“As our local team, we’re fully behind them and are looking forward to cheering them on into this double board darts season and beyond.

A spokesperson for RHP Darts of Hazzard, said: “It’s great to have WilSon Energy’s backing as we start our summer season campaign.

“We’re proud of our kit and this local support is so helpful as we aim to move up the league table. Watch this space!”

You can follow the team’s progress on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/newarkdarts

WilSon Energy acknowledges the Heat Trust, the consumer champion for heat networks, in it’s call for all operators to join its scheme to get regulation ready. Heat Trust, launched in November 2015 is an independent, non-profit consumer champion for heat networks that holds the industry to account for the benefit of everyone involved.

Andy Wilkinson, CEO of WilSon Energy, commented. “Although only part of the overall heat network scheme relates to billing & bureau services that we carry out on behalf of our clients, this is delivered in accordance with all current industry regulations, so we also strongly recommend to them that they participate in the Heat Trust’s voluntary scheme for the benefit of their own clients. We have created a handy guide that gives advice on how we can help clients meet these standards throughout the process”.

Mebs Laljee, Business Development Manager of WilSon Energy adds, “Our billing & bureau services department is growing rapidly. We have recently introduced some significant changes in our operations, this follows major investment by the company in its billing platform and customer portal. We have secured another two heat network billing contracts this week, where clients have not renewed their existing contracts and have switched over from two other competitors”.

To all property managers or property owners that have identified a requirement for Metering and Billing, please get in touch for free impartial advice on how WilSon Energy’s technology and end to end billing solution can help and ensure that you are regulatory compliant before the end of September 2022 deadline.

Wilson Energy Limited, one of UK’s leading providers of fully integrated Heating, Metering, Pre-Payment and Billing & Bureau Services for residential homes and commercial developments, is an award-winning local employer dedicated to offering opportunities to give young people a step up in helping them to develop their careers.

A prime example is their most recent young employee, Josh Tooke, 19 years old, who started working for Wilson Energy in February 2021 in the Maintenance & Support department. Josh left college in 2020 and was looking for an opening to develop his skills in business. Josh works in the support team and his role includes arranging appointments for engineers, providing top-ups for residential customers, working onsite with some of the meter reading systems and providing customer quotes for spare parts. Josh says, “The most rewarding part of my job is helping residential customers on a daily basis. I deal with a lot of vulnerable customers, particularly the elderly. These people can be very lonely and sometimes they haven’t spoken to anyone all day so I will make time to have a chat with them and make sure they are okay”.

Andy Wilkinson, CEO, Wilson Energy commented; “Wilson Energy has provided many roles for young people over the years. It Is a project which is close to my heart, I want to be able to give young people the chance to help drive them in the right direction of their career paths. It is particularly difficult for young people right now, to secure positions that will help to develop their professional skills. It is really  rewarding to see many of them who have been successful and gone on to be Directors of companies or to provide them with the confidence to start their own business. As a business, we have also been actively involved with many local schools in the area, providing work experience placements”

If you are interested in opportunities to work with Wilson Energy and think you have what it takes to be a valuable member of the team, please contact Andy Wilkinson, andy@wilsonenergy.co.uk.

Wilson Energy has installed MID billing standard cold-water meters and electricity meters across four sites of nearly 200 residential properties.

Each site was originally for commercial/retail use but have now been converted into 1 and 2 bedroomed apartments, all in city centre locations, bringing life and footfall back into the high street.

Ultrasonic smart water meter, QALCOSONIC W1, is designed for accurate measurement of cold and hot water consumption in households, apartment buildings, and small commercial premises. It is the first ultrasonic water meter with the integrated Narrow-Band-IoT (NB-IoT) technology in Europe.

Together with the single phase direct connected electricity meters, each meter is linked into a dedicated metering data collection platform with central data concentrator that transmits data with actual meter reads to WilSon Energy’s back office. We are now contracted with the property management company to deliver a third-party billing & bureau service to new residents moving in to their new homes.

Our client saved a substantial amount of money by creating a building network operator designed system as opposed to a district network system and was able to complete the project ahead of schedule and sell the properties faster.