SP Energy Networks Reviews 

Postcode ll 53 7
Come home to a powercut
It’s back on after 20min
My oven won’t work my frier won’t work my lights are dim my washing machine won’t work
Pathetic they are

To say we were getting very frustrated after a long wait for the replacement of a rotten pole is an understatement, particularly as the electric supply to our house came via it.
The team who arrived to carry out the work turned a 1 star review into a 5 star review and their approach to customer satisfaction was outstanding, given they uncovered a further problem.
This resulted in the nightmare scenario of our patio and garden at the receiving end of a mechanical digger.
Paul and Steve in particular were superb, they dealt with us in a manner that reassured us, explaining everything. Well done guys.

Recently had a power cut in my town, Berwick upon Tweed. It was a bit tricky to get through to Scottish Power, but when I did, Laura couldn’t have been more helpful explaining what had happened and what to do. On hearing that my husband is poorly, she made sure we were registered for priority alerts, is sending us a special lightbulb and advice on help for those who need it. The World needs more Lauras . I’m hoping this message gets to her.

Massive shout out to SP Energy Networks.
2.5hrs from a call about concern of our power line rubbing against a tree, 2 guys were knocking on the door - Wow !!

Unfortunately, the cable is Open Reach and so time to go through the mill with them but as far as SP Energy, awesome job!!

Thanks to the crew on the phone and around the LL15 area as I didn’t get your names.

I want to thank SP Energy Networks for their efficiency and kindness in dealing with a power cut involving just the few number of houses on our street. They kept us informed regularly and even though the fault turned into a complicated job they worked day and night with little disruption to return the power to our house. The workmen were polite and helpful and provided a generator so we weren't without power. You couldn't put the kettle on at the same time as the air fryer and the oven wouldn't work at all but to have power this was a small price to pay! Everything is all back to normal now and if there's ever another power cut let's hope it's SP Energy Networks out there fixing it!

An update on my last review, this company use another company named Quartzelec. I wouldn't recommend this company, because they promise various thing, then don't keep their word. After I complained about their incompetence and lack of communication with their office staff, they telephoned us three weeks ago to apologise for any inconvenience we had suffered, during the three times that they dug up our neighbours drive, before they completed the work. They offered us a£50 voucher (hush money) that they would get the office staff to order, and then hand deliver it to us. Well in the words of the song I'm still waiting, obviously another lack of communication. I have messaged them an told them that we don't want/need their voucher.

I am plagued by overgrown bushes from SP Energy Substation 11. In previous years I have contacted them: came out cut them back no problem. This year has been an utter farce with over 6 phone calls and online complaints. I’m sick of hearing ‘somebody will be out to do it tomorrow’. Liars, liars, liars.

Allan Murray always quick to reply and provide an accurate response. Grateful for his help.

Digging up the road outside our house with about 4 vans taking up all the parking, a digger, barricades and more. Extremely noisy and disruptive work, some of which was going on overnight. Yet residents haven't been kept informed. Just awful..

I contacted SP Energy about a loss of supply from a generator that had been installed during scheduled maintenance work. Although the initial contact is rather frustrating - yes/no replies to a computer - I was then contacted by a real person!! The young lady concerned was most helpful and, following some further questions about my issue, arranged for engineers to attend. Two engineers attended promptly (it was early evening) and they managed to resolve the problem. Both men were thorough, methodical and courteous and pleasant in manner. Barring the initial contact with a computer (!) it was an excellent service - all completed within about 2.5 hrs of the first call - and I could find no fault with the response by the real people concerned!

We had a complete blackout on Saturday the 3rd May 2025 and they sent engineers out to the Sub station within 2 hours and the electricity was restarted what a quick response and the caller was great also thank you William Morrison

I can not fault the service we received from SPEN. Within half an hour of notifying them of my power outage, engineers were on site to investigate and determined it was an underground cable fault. A couple of hours later, we were hooked up to a generator and a work team had arrived, who worked through the night to fix the fault. Everyone I spoke to from the call centre agent, to the engineers/work team were friendly, respectful and considerate of the situation.

Company passed my personal details onto a third party.
That company then basically hounded me and failed to acknowledge that I was coping with health issues at time while they pestered me to act as go between between them and homes up and down the street.
I complained to both company and ESPEN but neither apologised or gave assurances that my personal info would not be shared in future. Instead I have been threatened with costs etc should I continue to use the charger.
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There are rules regarding data protection and yet govt agencies seem to just flaunt them.
Complaint lodged on April 8 amd today May 2 nd no apology for way I have been treated.

Update 29th April, you guessed it - no response. Poor poor poor - now 1 star - so that’s that - hopeless

Update 27th April, three emails sent politely asking how to apply for compensation - zero responses so far - rating revised from 3 to two.

Had a high voltage problem in the area that meant our car charger won’t work as it shows overheating. Response from the technical side has been quick, but the problem has been ongoing for weeks and any fix is weeks away - the issue is when I ask about how to claim compensation the responses stop completely - so we can’t home charge with cheap overnight rates and have to drive to charge at a charger away from home for hours. Costing a lot - inconvenience etc - and I am politely asking the question and hear nothing back.

A loss of power supply at my bowls club was phoned in on 105 and a team arrived within 1/2 hour.
Two more teams became involved with the below ground fault located, repaired and area made good within 5 hours.
Excellent work.

I had storm Darragh in December 2024 . I was without power for more than 4 Days I’m electric only lost all my freezer stock , it was absolutely freezing and had only candles and total darkness.
I emailed Sp energy on the 14th March 2025 as I established that people in the near by village and others had a payment for there loss.
Following my email on the 14th March Sp energy acknowledged my complaint and promised to look into it for me .
Haven’t heard anything back also emailed them again on the 25th March with no reply.
I was lead to believe that if your power is disrupted for more than 6hours then that would trigger a refund but 4days without electricity and not a reply is disappointing .
I feel let down badly

Dreadful customer service...

I had a power cut yesterday 14th March. Morar Court FK3. Electrical engineers working on road cut our supply cable in error. Took 7 hours to turn power on to a care home/retirement home where the majority of residents live with disabilities. They never even attempted to supply a generator - BUT THEIR FAULT.
So we were all without power for 7 hours. Customer service - priority register, never texted me to explain until I called to complain. Ally/Aley/Allie from customer service (thought I was hard of hearing as she offered to spell her name) who eventually called on 15th March (9.56am) said, if your freezer defrosted, it cannot be as efficient as normal freezers take 12 hours to defrost food. (Completely disregarding the fact that if food defrosts for 7 hours, it cannot be frozen again, otherwise food poisoning) She suggested, just claim your household insurance. Yes, can do, but it was their fault the engineer burst/cut the cable laying new cables to supply a hotel further up the estate, not MORAR COURT RESIDENTS. NO apology offered and said she just called as a courtesy but that was only after I sent a bad review to their department.

WORST SERVICE EVER. Sack your Disgraceful customer service adviser and give someone with Empathy a job who really needs it.

Our power went off during Storm Eowyn on the morning of Friday 24 January and was off for over 48 hours, coming back on on the afternoon of Sunday 26th. Now, for me, that's just an unfortunate event and no fault of SPEN. As climate change gets worse these extreme storm events are going to get more freqent. I also realise that SPEN had a huge number of power outages including damage to critical infrastructure across the country that all need to be fixed, and obviously they've only got so many engineers and it's got to be safe for them. And then there are fallen trees blocking roads which need to be moved so that they can even get to some of the sites. So to be fair, I think these people do the best they can to get the power back on as quickly as possible in difficult circumstances.

HOWEVER what they do need to do is pay compensation fairly and promptly after the event, and they have not done this. I don't understand why this is so difficult. They tell people that they don't need to do anything and will be compensated automatically. But no, this has not happened for our village, because their system apparently says that the power in the village was off for 23 hours. When I argued with the customer service agent, his attitude was "that's what the system says". And when I challenged him as to why the system says one thing and the reality was another, he said that sometimes people think the power was off for longer than it actually was, because the power has come back on but people haven't realised....! There's nothing like having an agent imply that you're either a liar or an idiot to get your back up! I raised a dispute but still haven't had any response within the 2 working days.

It was also possible to claim compensation for meals and there was an online form for this. Speaking to people in the village though, it seems that those who rang up have received a cheque, but those who used the online form haven't.

For what it's worth, I also don't know what the point of the 'priority customer register' is. My neighbour is in her 80's and vulnerable. There was a text message on Saturday (over 24 hours into the outage) advising that there was a power cut. No s*** Sherlock! My neighbour was OK because we looked after her. We have a wood-burning stove and were able to provide a warm home and warm food. But I don't know what practical help would have been offered as a result of being a Priority Registered customer.

I left Scottish Power years ago and after having to deal with them again after my electricity was out for nearly 3 days, I remember why. They are a terrible company to deal with. They promised us the electricity would be on over the 3 days at 12pm, then 3pm, them 12 midnight, etc. I live in some of the oldest houses in the village, but everyone else had their electricity back on by 7pm the same night. People were staying with relatives, going into their cars for a heat and to recharge their phones. Not to mention the amount of money you had to spend every day on food because of all the food that was wasted in the refrigerator. Also there was no public transport as two trees had fallen on the bus route.
I tried to claim some compensation online for meals but the system kept freezing. The website said my claim would be processed within 10 days. I'm still waiting and despite phoning a few times, until the very last phone call I felt that no one I spoke to was really bothered. The last time the customer service operator informed me that due to the system freezing, although I had put my details in at least two separate times, one if the times my name had only went through and the other time it was only my address, so now I'll have to wait a full month for any money back and if no one has gotten back to me, I have to phone again. Well I'm done with chasing this up. It'll be a complaint the next time and then it will be forwarded to the ombudsman. The way this company treats individuals is disgusting!!!!

Absolute worst, I’ve been waiting for compensation since storm Darragh, for 3 days I had no communication despite being on the priority register, finally got through and told I would get compensation by the end of January. I lost all my Christmas food, medication etc and ended up unwell due to having no gas and electricity and lost 5kg because I couldn’t afford to Pay for food for both my daughter and I. Absolutely disgusted by the treatment of a disabled customer, contacting press so they will hopefully shamed into working