Good Energy named in Top 20 of the UK’s best large companies to work for

By Peter Davison

27 November 2023

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Good Energy COO Fran Woodward

Chippenham-based renewable energy provider Good Energy has been named as one of the UK’s best large companies to work for, rising rapidly through the list of national employers.

The firm has been listed 17th in the annual Best Companies League Table for 2023, climbing from 52nd in 2022.

The accolade recognises Good Energy’s commitment to employees and its trust-based positive culture.

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Chief operating officer Fran Woodward (pictured) said: “Our mission is to support a million homes and businesses to cut carbon from their energy and transport use, and this shared purpose already has a positive impact on the motivation of our employees.

“However, our progressive approaches to hybrid and remote working, an employee-driven diversity and inclusion agenda, and significant investment in employee development, have taken us from strength to strength.”

An impressive 90 per cent of staff agreed they were happy with the balance between their work and home life, and 88 per cent agreed they love working for the organisation.

As well as a £500 personal development allowance for each employee, Good Energy also offers technical and professional training.

More unusually, employees are developed through a series of ‘Signature Skills’, including interpersonal and leadership skills, to demonstrate that everyone has a voice and can make a difference.

Fran added: “It’s a great achievement to make such rapid progress in the Best Companies League Table from one year to the next.

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“We all share the same passion for tackling the climate crisis and working together to create a cleaner and greener future.”

Good Energy sources its power from a UK network of more than 2,000 independent generators of renewable electricity, including solar farms, wind turbines and hydroelectric projects.

It has also expanded into the installation of heat pumps and solar panels.

By Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country.

An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts.

Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.