The Warm Home Discount: 2025/2026 updates
Everything you need to know about the Warm Home Discount for 2025 / 2026.
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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 – it could add up to £100 over Winter.
Here are 8 tips and tricks to help you earn more in Saving Sessions.
Saving Sessions FAQs
Saving Sessions is the new era of energy. During Saving Sessions, customers get rewarded for shifting their power: for using less when the grid's busy and the power gets dirty, and filling their boots when there's plenty of green in the wires.
Find out more about Saving Sessions and Free Electricity.
By mobilising 100,000s of people to use less energy when the demand on our electricity grid is highest, we can avoid turning on fossil-fuel run power plants and benefit from cheaper, greener energy.
Get the answers to all of your burning questions below.
Electric blankets
Our research shows the typical home could save £300 by using an electric blanket to keep warm rather than always heating the whole house.
Octo Assist: our customer help fund
Octo Assist is a £40 million customer help fund and a collection of support schemes designed to give extra help to customers most in need.
Read more and find out how to apply for electric blankets, thermal cameras, standing charge holidays and more.
6 reasons people love their smart meters
Smart meters are the free thing you didn't know you needed – but don't take our word for it. Here's why our customers are loving their smart meters...
Meet the Octopus Home Mini
The Octopus Home Mini is a brand new, cutting-edge bit of tech that makes understanding your energy usage easier than ever before.
How we reach out to customers who aren't paying
Paying for the energy you use is an important responsibility. We like to be transparent – so we've written about what we do to reach the tiny percentage of our customers don't pay their bills.
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 It's been replaced by the Energy Bill Discount Scheme (EBDS).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.
Energy prices from January, and what they mean for you
Information on discounted prices from January including a breakdown of rates and charges for every region on Flexible Octopus.
Getting a smart meter installed: what to know before, during and after
Thinking about getting a smart meter? Here's everything you need to know to make the process smooth and stress-free.
October 2022 Price cap announcement, what to keep in mind:
On Friday 26 August, Ofgem's October price cap was announced: with the maximum for an average home rising to £3,549. Here's my thoughts on the crisis as it stands, government support and beyond.
Our Energy Helpers are bringing 500,000 customers bespoke energy saving advice
We’re training hundreds of energy experts to travel the country giving specially tailored, genuinely impactful energy-saving advice to 500,000 customers who need it most.
Moving from ‘Demand Side Response’ to ‘Intelligent Demand’
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.
Backing cheaper, greener energy globally
Why we're backing a vast wind and solar farm on the edge of the Sahara and the world's longest subsea power cable
An Energy Tariff Deficit Fund would help people through the crisis and tackle inflation
An Energy Tariff Deficit Fund, implemented prior to October price cap increases, would allow customer bills to be held at or around their current level of £1,971 for the next 3 years and decreased after that down to an estimated £1,100 over ten years.
The Energy Price Cap: your questions answered
Every three months, the energy regulator Ofgem publishes a new ‘energy price cap’, which is the maximum suppliers can charge for a variable tariff. This guide helps answer the key questions our team has been answering. We'll keep updating it as more information becomes available.
Greg Jackson on BBC Radio 4 The Today Programme
Greg Jackson, CEO of Octopus Energy, appeared on the today programme on the 10th August 2022 at 6.19am.
This is the transcript of the interview.
Hey I'm Constantine, welcome to Octopus Energy!
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