When Joel Chapman (picture above with what appears to be a umpa lumpa) responded to me back in late October 2015 he said BES received our contract from National Utilities, which BES believed was a trading name of Commercial Energy Ltd, which no longer trades.
It always struck me how BES just believed, like it was a company they themselves had never heard of. When I Googled National Utilities I could find zero information on them, when I started researching Commercial Energy Ltd though I found the opposite – BES and Commercial Energy Ltd seemed to be very much connected.
The Commercial Energy Ltd and BES Connection
Commercial Energy Ltd was ran by Lee Qualter (he was the director) - Lee Qualter and Andrew Pilley are friends, below is a picture of them together at a wedding (stolen from iamOlly).
Here is them having some beers together taken from Andrew Pilleys Twitter (@capboy70) feed.
And some more beers.
Lee Qualter is also the director of Energy Search Ltd and Commercial Reduction Services Ltd.
Looking on who.is at the register details for http://www.energy-search.net you can clearly see it was registered by dale.dixon@besutilities.co.uk - that’s a BES email address!
Looking on Facebook it seems Joel Chapman and Lee Qualter are also friends.
The idea that Commercial Energy Ltd was an independent broker quickly falls apart. Lee Qualter and Andrew Pilley are very much in bed together. It’s a falsity to suggest Commercial Energy Ltd was acting independently from BES or in the best interest of the customer.
Sadly none of this is new – its all been covered by iamOlly and the BBC 5 Live investigation.
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