VENSON Automotive Solutions has extended its business partnership with npower, one of the UK’s largest energy suppliers, to August 2009.

MeterPlus, the metering business of npower, operates a near 1,000-strong light commercial van fleet and is responsible for the installing, reading, maintaining and removing of meters for npower, which supplies millions of homes with gas and electricity every day.

The two-year extension to an existing three-year contract hire and fleet management agreement signed in 2004 also includes the introduction of a range of online services.

During the extension period the majority of the vans in the fleet – Citroën Berlingo, Ford Transit Connect, Peugeot Partner and Volkswagen Caddy – will be replaced.

Vehicles are leased on a fixed price basis with charges paid monthly and typically operate on three-year/45,000-mile contracts.