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All Pricing Policy Energy crisis Business energy Energy explained Green Our community Greg Jackson, CEO Careers Octopus news Green home techWe 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.
This Saturday at 8.30pm, we’re supporting WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) with a unique Saving Sessions takeover to celebrate Earth Hour - and you’re invited!
Octobahn: 8 EV’s. 5 countries. 2 days. 1 epic road trip through Europe.
Follow the team as they discover how easy (and cheap!) it is to drive an EV from London to the Energy Tech Summit of Berlin.
How locational, or "zonal" pricing could give Scotland the cheapest power in Europe
... and give everyone else in GB cheaper power too.
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 🪩
One year in, Octopus Energy's offshore 'Fan Club' is helping Grimsby residents save big, with average annual savings nearing £200! Now, 36,000+ people across the UK are asking to join the Fan Club revolution.
We are on a mission to build 100,000 Zero Bills homes by 2030. Read all about it.
Right now, wind turbines are being switched off even when they're spinning fast and generating loads of cheap, clean energy. Find out how we're helping to transform the energy system with green initiatives, ideas and innovation.
Customers Mandi and Carmen talk about being on Octopus Tracker - a unique tariff where your electricity and gas prices change every day based on the wholesale energy price. Transparent, real-time prices that tend to be cheaper than standard tariffs and drop when the UK's energy is greener!
As the sun starts shining brighter and the days grow longer, its time to bid a temporary farewell to our beloved Saving Sessions. Yep, our wintertime energy-saving extravaganza is heading into summer hibernation, and we could not be prouder of what you have achieved.
Here is our wrap up!
Here, you can find information about the reliability of smart meters, how they can sometimes have issues we can fix, and how they work with In-Home Displays (IHDs).
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.
A little over two years ago, we launched Intelligent Octopus. Today, it’s the UK’s most popular EV tariff, chosen by more than 200,000 customers, working with 280+ EV and charger models. I want to give you a look at the breakneck global growth of Intelligent Octopus.
Smart meters don’t just make your energy billing easier and more accurate, as a fundamental building block for a green energy revolution they're easily worthwhile.
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.
Use our savings calculator to find out how much you could save with a heat pump.
We’re absolutely thrilled to unveil our latest milestone in the quest for cheaper, greener, smarter home heating: the 'Cosy 6' heat pump.
EQUINOX is a trial exploring ways we can make green heating cheaper and greener. This blog covers how EQUINOX works and what we've learnt so far. Our 24/25 trial is almost underway. We'll be back with the results soon!
Our smart tariffs give you access to extremely cheap and green energy. Yet it’s important to remember that these are beta products and that will occasionally mean little hiccups. Here's how we work to solve them, and how you can help.
Follow these tips to shift your energy usage and make lower your business' bills with Shape Shifters.
Fiona from the Saltburn Vintage Rooms tells us all about how she's finding life with a smart meter.
We’re investing in the world’s largest subsea pipe in Morocco to bring cheap green power to 7 million homes in the UK.
How going smart has helped Simply Flowers to save money and time.
There are a few different ways to track your energy use. The easiest, most accurate way is through the Octopus Energy app.
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.
Phil Steele, an Octopus Energy boffin and all-round tech-spert, who's spent years working on some of the most exciting electrical home tech available.
You may have heard of the Octopus Home Mini or Octopus Fan Club…well that was Phil and his brill team of tech wizards. He also occasionally graces our TV screens to discuss the next exciting smart energy gadget, be sure to keep your eyes peeled (LINK).
We're loaning thermal imaging cameras to help you to spot heat loss around your home. This will enable cheap, effective, personalised improvements that can have a real impact on your wallet, and the environment.
Electric vehicles are still far cheaper, and of course, greener, to run than the fossil-fuel-guzzling alternatives. In this blog we’ll explain a whole host of ways that electric vehicles can help you navigate the energy crisis.
The Octopus Home Mini is a brand new, cutting-edge bit of tech that makes understanding your energy usage easier than ever before.
For the last sixty years, efforts to influence energy demand have been defined by (and limited to) the concept of ‘Demand side response’ (DSR). Now we have the opportunity to move to 'Intelligent Demand' - which could solve a whole host of energy issues.
With energy costs going up, the energy crisis has brought new attention to all the smaller costs that make up your electricity bill; including green levies. Tin this blog we look at how taking them out of customers’ bills and including them in ‘general taxation’ would help unleash energy flexibility, making the grid greener in the process.
Smart meters not only make it easier to manage your energy wherever you are – they can also help you cut your bills.
Here’s how smart meters help our customers pay less:
The UK’s energy network is slowly but surely becoming greener, but this transformation isn’t without challenges.
At Octopus, we’re all about less talk and more action. That’s why we trialled the UK’s largest ever dynamic demand shift. Working with over 100,000 homes up and down the country, we’ve collectively demonstrated that even the smallest of actions can lead to the biggest changes.
Today ‘net-zero’ can feel more like a futuristic buzzword than a doing word, with many left wondering what this monumental shift could possibly look like to the average person? And most importantly - how do we get there?
Intelligent Octopus Go is our smartest EV tariff, with six hours of smart charging every night at a super low rate.
You'll get cheap electricity between 11.30pm and 5.30am, as well as super cheap electricity for any Smart Charging.
Our latest integration with Ohme enables Octopus to provide Smart Charging directly through your Ohme charger; a greener solution that keeps money in your pocket.
EQUINOX is Octopus Energy's latest cutting edge trial, designed to unlock grid flexibility via heat pumps. The trial, the biggest of its kind so far, will reward customers who want to get involved with unleashing the very greenest in home heating.
Our cutting-edge trial in partnership with National Grid ESO gives customers all over the UK free electricity for moving power use out of the dirtiest times of day.
In a future powered by 100% renewable energy, we're going to need to be able to call on green electrons when we need them. Given that we can't make the sun shine and the wind blow on demand, where is this flexibility going to come from? Energy storage might just be the solution we've been waiting for.
Heat pumps are the future: electric, low-carbon heat extracted from the air. Find out how we're installing heat pumps for around the same cost as a gas boiler.
Yet to be electrified and unable to reap the benefits of cleaner, greener electricity, heating accounts for 14% of the UKs emissions. In this blog, I talk to Peter Konowalczyk about the solution we've all been waiting for... heat pumps.
The Octopus Centre for Net Zero has put the capital's brightest young minds to the test at the very first London Energy Idea Challenge
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.
The Centre for Net Zero (CNZ) will take the fight against climate change to government level. Bringing together the biggest and best brains in tech, environment, econometrics and policy to create research and tools that governments and businesses around the world will be able to use to accelerate the uptake of clean technologies and green energy.
In this blog for Octopus’ spotlight series, we chat to Karim about his superhuman coding powers, life as a Octopus developer, and his upcoming adventure with Octopus Energy Japan.
This month we wrapped up our first ever Octopus tech internship: The Ada Lovelace Project, named after the inspirational woman commonly considered the world’s first computer programmer.
The way we generate and consume energy is changing, and it’s changing fast. We're working with the University of Salford to create a new state-of-the-art research facility that explores the future of smart home energy consumption - the only one of its kind in the world.
In the latest Spotlight blog, Maddie chats to Ruby, one of the first people to join the Octopus team back in 2016.
Ruby's done just about everything there is to do in the company, and now works for Kraken Tech introducing new Kraken convert companies to our software and our unique way of working.
We’re delighted to partner with Tesla to offer their customers the Tesla Energy Plan - and the chance to unlock cheaper greener energy through the power of their car, solar panels and batteries.
However, last year we identified an issues with some very specific brand of meters installed by L+G. Here’s the detail of what we found, and what we’ve done, from Phil Steele, our Future Technologies Evangelist.
Disability isn’t inherent - disabilities arise when society is built in a way that doesn’t take people's needs into account. In other words, it’s our job to cater for each of our customers, whatever their access needs.
We wanted to write a little about the work that goes into building our website, customer experience and communications in the most inclusive way possible.
Octopus and Powervault are over the Moon to be able to announce a groundbreaking smart trial, paving the way for a smarter, greener energy system.
Aliya chats to Kraken Tech back-end dev Wenye Zhao about coding the links to connect smart meters, lockdown hobbies, and what it's like working for a green, agile company like ours. Aliya chats to
I recently stumbled upon an intriguing new way to heat a building without burning gas: electric wallpaper.
Can everyday homes help balance a greener grid?
Smart-energy pioneers are using our agile API to hack their homes for the cheapest, greenest energy anywhere - find out how to do the same!
This bank holiday weekend we're going all out to stop renewable energy going to waste
We want everyone to switch on this Sunday to stop green energy going to waste
We're on a mission to spur the global transition to green power cheaper and faster. As part of this, we’re always testing new ideas and running limited trials, some involving customers and other energy innovators. Our CEO Greg breaks down what we're doing, and how and why we're doing it.
What do soap, ice-cream and smart energy have in common? There’s an app for that!
On Sunday 5th April, thousands of customers on our AgileOctopus tariff got paid to use power between 10.30am and 4pm. Our fuel procurement team explain how Sunday's negative pricing came about – and how this weekend's highly renewable energy grid provides a crucial opportunity for the industry to look into its greener, smarter future.
Analysis on the changes in energy consumption due to social distancing
We’re big fans of anyone that does something ‘smart’ with our Agile API. Here's the story of one such pioneer.
We're loaning thermal imaging cameras to help you to spot heat loss around your home. This will enable cheap, effective, personalised improvements that can have a real impact on your wallet, and the environment.
On Saturday and Sunday night agileOctopus customers got paid for the energy they used after the UK hit record levels of wind generation.
With Phil’s help, Octopus Energy are building the smart energy system of the future, today.
Enter nCube: a universal smart home ‘bridge’ engineered by our Future Technologies Evangelist, Phil Steele.
Shining a bright light on accessibility, and offering tips on how to build a website with inclusion in mind.
We’re partnering with ChargedUp so that you can recharge your phone on the go, 100% green! We chat to co-founder Charlie Baron about how this sustainable tie-up came together...
Energy needs to change, and fast. The only way to really discover what the right answers look like is to build solutions in the real world with real customers.
As Octopus is working at the cutting edge of smart meter capabilities (and exceeding them) we are encountering and solving issues that were unknown, unforeseen or unresolved.
Our Future Technologies Evangelist Phil blogs about Tepeo, the latest in heat-battery tech.
Get acquainted with Outgoing Octopus, our one of a kind smart export tariff
Calling all early adopters! Octopus Energy is proud to reveal a pioneering new link-up with Powervault, trialling the energy technology of tomorrow, today.
Agile Octopus customers can now pair the world's first time-of-use energy tariff with If This Then That (IFTTT), the app that connects all your smart tech, to truly benefit from dynamic energy pricing, saving cash and carbon without even having to think about it.
Our Smart Tariff and IoT project manager Phil Steele teams up with Head of Data Science David Sykes to explain the calculation model behind Agile Octopus' dynamic pricing.
Agile Octopus represents the future, a crucial step towards redesigning energy infrastructure to support a low-carbon society. Read the first results here, along with a foreword from our founder Greg.
Meet the community of tech innovators integrating their products and services with our Agile API to revolutionise energy.
“Alexa, can you do my washing when it’s cheapest?”
Octopus Energy’s first Hack Day makes this a reality
We delve a little deeper into Agile Octopus: who it's for and why we launched it.
Blockchain promises massive gains in industries as diverse as fine wine and music streaming. Now, it could deliver huge efficiency benefits to the UK energy market while empowering customers and saving them money.
Electric vehicles are making cheaper, cleaner transport a reality for everyone. Read on to find out why you might never need buy petrol again.
We’re massive fans of technology and believe it can solve even the most complex problems.
We audited our website to see if we were providing all of our visitors and customers with an easy and enjoyable experience
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