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Exclusively focused on electric, gas, and water utilities, Chartwell has provided actionable insights, collaborative problem-solving opportunities, and events to help utilities improve customer experience and operational efficiency for over 30 years!

 

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EMACS 2025

The 28th annual Chartwell’s EMACS: The Customer Experience Conference will be held October 7-9, 2025 in Dallas, Texas. Registration is open now!

 

PowerUp 2025

Registration for the 18th annual PowerUp: Chartwell’s Outage Conference is now open! It will be held October 6-8, 2025 at the Hyatt Regency in Dallas, Texas.

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Independent Research

Chartwell’s customer service focused research provides your utility with innovative information to improve customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.

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Industry Community

Council members have access to a rich network of industry peers who meet monthly to problem-solve and share strategies with the clear intent to be more effective and operationally efficient.

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Industry Experience

Customers have access to Chartwell’s team, which has nearly 400 years of combined utility industry experience in: customer service, insights, business customer strategy, outage communications, marketing, operations, leadership, vulnerable customers, transportation electrification, and more.

Industry News

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Key Components for Conducting Successful Hot Washes
By Russ Henderson, Director of Research Conducting prompt hot washes post-event is critical to a utility’s Emergency Management Improvement Process. Successful hot washes facilitate...
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ETRs Can Improve Customer Outage Experience by up to 30%
By Ben Murdock, Senior Data Analyst How much does an Estimated Time of Restoration (ETR) really matter to customers during an outage? In the...
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Embracing Digital Channels in the Utility Sector
55% of customers who rated their utility a 5 out of 5 for ease of doing business would stay with their current utility if...
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Customer Experience Journey Mapping Workshops for Residential and Business Customers: High Bill Customer Journey
By Stacey Bailey, VP Chartwell John Bord, Chartwell Senior Consultant and journey-mapping advisor, is leading journey-mapping workshops for Chartwell’s Leadership Councils. The Customer Experience...

Chartwell Services

Our membership services can help your utility identify strategies to impact customer experience and operational efficiency: A research subscription to our Insight Center membership allows unlimited access to hundreds of research reports, case studies, benchmarks, webinars, and more. Our peer-to-peer Leadership Councils, focused on customer-facing areas such as billing, outage, CX, vulnerable customers, EVs, business customers, emergency management, and organizational resilience provide collaborative, utility-only peer networks. Our post-event transactional benchmarking study called Tranzact enables utilities to compare their customers’ outage experience perception with peer utilities. Chartwell Advisory Services and Executive Services provide leadership development with industry experts.

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