For businesses: what does the conflict in the Middle East mean for my energy prices? (April 2026)
Global events like this can affect the price that we all pay for our energy. Let’s explore how this impacts your business.
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All Pricing Policy Energy crisis Energy explained Green Our community Greg Jackson, CEO Careers Octopus news Green home tech Flexibility & smart energyHere's how we keep prices fair. For your business and the ones you refer.
At Octopus Energy for Business, we're always working to keep our prices low. To do that, we follow 6 key pricing principles that keep our rates consistently fair. Let's explore these principles - and how they make improve the energy experiences of our customers.
Success! New regulation on brokers will make energy fairer for businesses
We've been campaigning to improve the energy broker system for years. So, we're delighted to see progress in the form of DESNZ's TPI report. Read on to find out how it helps normal businesses.
Here's how we make energy better for medium-sized businesses, like Bing Pilates
We do commercial energy for all types of SME. Any size, any sector. We work hard to make better, smarter energy accessible for all businesses.
So, we’re excited to offer a new way for mid-market customers to sign up. That means a new joining process and quotes bespoke to this size of businesses.
To celebrate, we did our absolute favourite thing - visited a customer!
Powered by Octopus: How Maghull Cricket Club are making wicket savings with Shape Shifters: Agile 🏏
We love to hear how our customers are making the most of our new tariffs, so we thought we’d pay a Shape Shifter a visit.
Paw-ered by Octopus: Kimbolton Vets are saving money with Shape Shifters Trio
Read about the time we popped over to see Becky. She runs Kimbolton Vets and is saving money with Shape Shifters: Trio.
By making a few small changes, Becky's unlocking big savings. That means more money to reinvest in her practice - and in her patients of course (did someone say treats?! 😋).
Shape Shifters: which version is right for my business?
Shape Shifters is our smart bill-slashing business tariff - that’s saving 100s of businesses money.
It comes in two versions - Shape Shifters: Trio and Shape Shifters: Agile.
Both make your energy cheaper, nearly all day. Both reward you for using power outside of peak times. And both give you the opportunity to unlock big savings.
How we’re making better, smarter energy accessible for all businesses
Every business deserves amazing energy.
Energy that’s simple, smart, fair and built for how SMEs really work.
We work hard to change and innovate so that this can become the norm. Here’s how we’re making better energy as accessible as possible - for everyone.
Hey businesses! Earn more from your energy with Shape Shifters: Export
Find out about our new export tariff for business customers. Shape Shifters: Export is ideal for businesses with battery storage.
Solar panels for business: the essential guide for 2026
Find out everything you need to know about solar panels for your business. Read about the benefits, practicalities and how to make the most of them for you.
Powered by Octopus: How Heal Rewilding uses greener energy to grow greener spaces
Octopus' carbon-free energy benefits the whole world, not just humans. One of our customers, Heal Rewilding, is looking after the planet in a different way. Our carbon-free Octopus energy is helping them to revitalise nature. So, we spoke to them about how they're doing it, how it links to the climate crisis and how we can all help.
Businesses and Electric Match: building a 24/7 carbon-free electricity system
A clean, green future requires energy that's carbon-free. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Here's how we're working with businesses to bring this to life.
Panel Power: real stories from businesses exporting their solar energy
Panel Power is our commercial export tariff for businesses with solar panels. It's turning solar into earnings for our business customers. Find out why they choose Panel Power for their export.
Shape Shifters: Agile - your questions answered
We want to make Shape Shifters: Agile as clear and easy to use as possible. So, we've compiled answers to the most common questions that we get from our customers. Including: how it works, how it saves you money, how to join and how we calculate the prices.
Shape Shifters: Agile is here! Say hello to our most dynamic business energy tariff 👋
Shape Shifters is our smart, bill-slashing business energy tariff. It gives you serious savings when you use electricity outside of a small number of peak hours. It’s already lowering the bills of hundreds of businesses.
Now, we’ve added another version of Shape Shifters into the mix. Today, we’re taking a closer look at the 2 groovy options 🪩
9 ways to lower your business' winter bills
Use these 9 tips to save your business' energy and lower your winter bills. This post gives you actions to take now. You'll save money and become more energy-efficient.
The eventful life of Octopus Energy for Business
Find out about Octopus Energy for Business' activity at events. We look at what these events are like, why we go and the best things about them - according to the Octopus Energy for Business team.
Powered by Octopus: How Box Bear is unlocking savings with Shape Shifters
Shape Shifters encourages Box Bear to be flexible with their energy usage - and they’re reaping the rewards with a projected saving of up to £2,000 by the end of this year.
Electric Match makes farms’ energy cheaper and greener
Find out how Electric Match from Octopus can bring bundles of benefits to farms and agricultural companies. It's a different way of doing business energy. It takes the electricity you generate and shares it with your other sites.
Frontier Agriculture is harvesting solar with Octopus’ Electric Match
Check out how Octopus' Electric Match is giving greater green goodness to Frontier Agriculture. See how its energy is cheaper, cleaner and more transparent.
Our Shape Shifters trial results: 100% of businesses saved money on their energy bills
100% of businesses customers saved money on our Shape Shifters trial. It's a smart time-of-use tariff that gives you 21 hours of cheaper electricity every day. Check out the exciting impact.
Powered by Octopus: Hope Chapel is Shifting Shapes for their community
We wanted to find out more about our customers’ experiences of the new Shape Shifters tariff. So, we spoke to Bristol’s nobly named Hope Chapel for a chat about how they’re finding life with their new setup.
Businesses can now join our No Standing Charge Tariff
We have a tariff with no standing charge. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada!
That means no fixed daily payment amount.
Instead, you only pay according to what you use.
We think it’s simple, innovative and what many businesses say works for them.
Small businesses in the dark: Energy brokers and the hidden scandal in energy prices
Read our revealing report on the damaging practices of energy brokers.
Shape Shifters: 9 ways to shift your energy usage
Follow these tips to shift your energy usage and make lower your business' bills with Shape Shifters.
Powered by Octopus: the Saltburn Vintage Rooms go smart
Fiona from the Saltburn Vintage Rooms tells us all about how she's finding life with a smart meter.
End of the Energy Bill Relief Scheme: how we're helping businesses
To help ease the end of the Energy Bill Relief Scheme, we've introduced ways for some of our businesses to move to much cheaper rates.
Powered by Octopus: Simply Flowers goes smart
How going smart has helped Simply Flowers to save money and time.
Explaining the Targeted Charging Review (TCR)
Ofgem has recently implemented changes from its Targeted Charging Review. We take a look what these changes are and how they'll affect our business customers.
How we're making business energy fair for our customers
The energy crisis is a tough time for businesses. So, we're highlighting the ways we're making business energy work for them.
Saving Sessions: how our business customers switched off and cashed in
Our first round of Saving Sessions has ended, so we’re delving into the data to showcase the impact our business customers had.
7 reasons why your business should have a smart meter
Find out why businesses love smart meters. We'll show you our customers' favourite things about smart meters. Like lower bills and more simpler business energy.
Saving Sessions Tips for Businesses
Here's how you can make the most out of “Saving Sessions” as a business with a smart meter. In Saving Sessions, we'll pay you to use less power. The more electricity you save during your Sessions, the more money you can make!
Government support for businesses (the Energy Bills Discount Scheme)
The Energy Bill Relief Scheme ended on 31st March 2023. It's been replaced by the Energy Bill Discount Scheme (EBDS). Find out more about what EBDS is and how customers can benefit from it.
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Let's meet some of the wonderful businesses driving for a low-carbon future, and putting our cleaner, greener electrons to good use in the process.
Big Business: moving from a one to a three phase meter
If your business uses a lot of energy then you might need a three phase meter installed, allowing you to access a lot more power from the grid. We are increasingly getting requests for three phase meters, so here is everything you need to know about the installation process.
Getting to know your business electricity meter
Whilst you're at work, your business's electricity meter is also putting in a shift. The job of an electricity meter is to track your energy usage so you can be correctly billed for what you actually use. Electricity meters can seem quite complicated, so here is a play-by-play of the different meters you might find at your business premise.
The business switching journey explained
If you are looking to switch your business energy to Octopus, but aren't quite sure what to expect, we've got just the guide for you. While business energy differs slightly from domestic energy, the online sign-up is just as simple and quick! Let’s take you through the process, step by step...
Panel Power: serving your energy needs, sunny side up
Meet Panel Power, the new and unique energy tariff for businesses who generate their own solar electricity, from Octopus Energy for Business.
Powering the future of the food industry
Director of Octopus Energy for Business Zoisa Walton has vertical markets firmly in her sights to continue her division’s staggering growth – literally so when it comes to vertical farming, as she tells Eugene Costello…
Zoisa North-Bond knows Octopus Means Business
We meet with Director Zoisa North-Bond to hear about the vision underpinning this rapid rise that means the division is punching well above its weight...
Empowering your business
Find out how we’re helping to power thousands of businesses across the UK, from the your local Harry Potter shop to the coffee place down the road to Arsenal FC’s Emirates Stadium with 100% carbon-free energy. And how your business could sign up to simple, affordable sun power, too!
Leicester’s local businesses: now powered by sunshine
We’re working together with Leicester’s awesome local businesses to power the city with solar energy… sourced just down the road!
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