Into the Octo-verse

Get the inside scoop on energy, technology, and all things Octopus.

Spotlight on... Derya, smart product engineer

Meet Derya, senior product engineer and mastermind behind the Octopus Home Mini. Read about her avant-garde journey from Nokia to Hive to Octopus Energy.

How to build a wind turbine

To play a part in crafting a green future, our generation arm, Octopus Energy Generation, are investing hard to build more wind as quickly and affordably as possible.

James is one of their chief investment managers and sat down with him to find out all about wind power, building wind farms and how we are evolving to make the transition to wind energy faster.

Spotlight on...Lucy Yu and the Centre for Net Zero

Meet Lucy, leader of 'the world's largest living lab' dedicated to advancing the global energy transition to combat climate change: the Octopus Centre for Net Zero.

The brain power behind wind power

Want an engineer’s perspective on wind turbines? Check out our interview with Robin O'Connell, the team lead for Naval Architecture at Kent, who just so happens to design floating platforms for offshore wind turbines.

How to use your In-Home Display

Your new smart meter comes with a handy display called an In-Home Display, or IHD for short. This article tells you all about how to use it.

How we manage Direct Debits at Octopus Energy

How we work out what you should pay, how we put you in control and check your balance is on track throughout the year. And how Direct Debits have changed in the energy crisis.

Spotlight on....Zoisa, Octopus Energy Generation CEO

Meet Zoisa, CEO of Octopus Energy Generation: one of Europe's largest investors in renewable energy. Under her leadership, the business is evolving into a thing completely unheard of in Energy: a fund management that has the best interests of the people at heart. I sat down with her to discuss her journey to Octopus Energy Generation, and how they do things differently.

Taking environmental responsibility for Octopus generation sites

We’re true believers that renewable power can coexist comfortably with grazing animals, plants and areas of beauty — powering our world cleanly while keeping local environments happy and healthy too. Read about the new steps we're taking to make sure that happens.

Looking out for our team while they look out for you

On a typical day, we talk to around 40,000 customers across phone calls, email and social media.

That's always included some people in really difficult situations. In the energy crisis, with so many people worried about paying their bills, we're receiving more heartbreaking messages and calls than ever before.

I wanted to write about all the ways our team are looking after one another through the crisis, making sure the same amount of care and support we give our customers is also available to our people.

Making green living easy

Some simple steps you can take to be more green.

How we're helping customers through the energy crisis

What we're doing to help our customers through the energy crisis – from our £15 million Octopus Assist fund which has been increased to £30 million this winter, to loans of thermal cameras to find draughts in leaky homes over Winter, electric throws, and our Winter Workout energy saving programme that’s helped customers save £4.8 million by using less, but whilst still staying warm.

How flexibility can solve green energy's greatest challenge

'But what about when the wind's not blowing?'... It's a question we get all the time – so we wanted to catalog in one place some of the innovative flexibility technologies we're working on to ensure we can power our world 100% green, 100% of the time.

Go behind the scenes of our EQUINOX trial for heat pump owners

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.

Octopus Energy Generation: building green power for the future

At Octopus, we don't just supply energy, we generate it too. Octopus Energy Generation are combining expertise from across the whole breadth of the energy industry to create a kind of generation business that’s never been seen before.

Homes in Dumfries and Galloway get free power in our Windy Day Fund trial

Our cutting-edge trial, in partnership with SP Energy Networks, will pay customers to use more power at certain times when there's excess wind energy being generated.

What's going on with global energy prices?

In this blog post, we'll give insight into what's going on in the global wholesale energy market, to help you better understand trends in UK tariff prices. Now more than ever, while the ongoing gas crisis sees energy prices stay highs, we're committed to fair prices that truly reflect the cost of the energy we supply you.

Doing things differently, from 'Love & Power' to the Wheel of Fortune

I wanted to talk a bit about some of the ways we work hard to win your trust: from obsessing about our email and bill language to creating unexpected features to surprise and delight.

Our new Flexible tariff: £50 below the price cap for loyal customers, and £5 million more support for households

The price of Flexible Octopus, our standard variable tariff, price is changing, and we're introducing a Loyal Octopus support. Here's what you need to know.

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