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Confused about what support is available from the government during the energy and cost of living crisis?

We explain everything here, and cover the unique support Octopus is offering its customers during this time.

Whether you live hours from a town, or in the tallest tower block in the city, if you love nature it’s likely you have your own special way of finding enjoyment outdoors. We decided that we want to find out what nature really means to you: our customers. So we’re opening the doors to our green neighbourhood.

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.

We thought it about time we get to know our 8 legged, ocean-dwelling cousins a little better, so we asked marine biologist and cephalopod expert, Marie-Therese Noedl to delve into all there is to know about the smart, agile and completely amazing Octopus.

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.

The Energy Company Obligation (ECO) scheme

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Some simple steps you can take to be more green.

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.

'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.

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.