Meet the Agile community
Launching the smart grid
If you found your way here, you'll know all about Agile Octopus, our world-first smart time of use tariff, passing on real half-hourly wholesale prices to consumers.
Early customers have already unlocked incredible savings by taking advantage of Agile's dirt cheap off-peak rates, but this tariff's true potential is best unlocked via integration with smart home tech.
This all kicked off at our Agile HackDay, which saw 22 organisations from Toshiba to Tesla coming together to integrate their products and services with our open Agile API. The teams paired their tech with our Agile data to solve challenges from bringing affordable electric heating to social housing at prices rivalling gas, to pairing a robot push button with Amazon’s Alexa to remotely turn a tumble dryer on when energy rates are lowest, or greenest.
Meet the Agile community
We're delighted to be continuing to work with the following tech-led organisations to maximise the potential of time of use tariffs like ours:
Thanks also to Energy Systems Catapult, UKPN, policy innovator Laura Sandys, James Heappey MP and Graeme Cooper, EV Director of National Grid for their ongoing support of the revitalisation of the energy industry through time of use tariffs.
The work we've started with all these phenomenal collaborators has been lauded far and wide, even making it into Reuters' review of European Smart Grid developments:
“Start ups [Octopus] leading the way on Smart Grid”
We were a little bit chuffed to be the only UK supplier mentioned in the piece.
As avid campaigners for consumer rights, we're no stranger to politics. Agile even made its way into that sphere. James Heappey MP said:
“Insurgent companies such as Octopus Energy are relishing bringing the new time-of-use tariffs to the market, giving customers the benefits of fluctuating wholesale energy prices.”
The good folks over at Energy Institute covered Agile HackDay in their July-August 2018 Energy World journal and broke down some of the day's best creations.
Published on 22nd August 2024 by:
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