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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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Improving ETR Accuracy: Leveraging AI and Addressing Key Challenges
By Suzan Greene, Senior Consultant When outages occur, customers’ tolerance becomes less and less as expectations have increased. As we have said for many...
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Keeping Customers Informed is Crucial During an Outage
According to Chartwell’s 2024 Outage Communications Industry Survey, updating customers after initial contact is the most common challenge for utilities. The full infographic, available...
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Most Influential CX Factors Over the Next Five Years
A recent Customer Experience Leadership Council call centered on reviewing trends and initiatives to guide planning and set up topics to discuss for the...
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Unlocking Customer Journeys: How Mapping Benefits Utilities
Understanding the complete customer journey is crucial for utilities to deliver exceptional service. From initial contact to ongoing interactions, mapping these journeys provides invaluable...

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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