Introducing Cosy Octopus

One of the biggest challenges the UK faces on the road to a greener grid is home heating.

Currently, domestic heating accounts for around 14% of our total carbon emissions. Until home heating is electrified it won’t be able to reap the benefits of cleaner, greener energy.

Of course, some early movers have already made the shift to greener technologies: homes with heat pumps, or those with battery storage and solar.

That’s why we created Cosy Octopus so heat pump users who are flexible with their usage can save an extra £85, on top of the clean, green heat pump efficiency savings.

Cosy Octopus is a tariff with double dip Cosy Hours every day: six hours of super cheap electric to warm your home.

How does it work?

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Octopus doesn’t believe that “green” should just be another way of saying “expensive”. That’s why we’re on a mission to empower our customers to make green decisions that also save them cash.

We’ve been pioneers in the world of smart time-of-use tariffs. Pairing unique in-house tech with innovative offerings, we’ve created a world first half-hourly time of use tariff, helped EV drivers pay pennies for their mileage, and enabled customers to benefit from tariffs which get cheaper the more the wind is blowing.

Agile Octopus was our first foray into the world of cutting-edge pricing. The tariff helps reduce strain on the UK grid by incentivizing customers to move their energy use out of peak demand times each day.

Crucially, it rewards customers to use power when there’s plenty of renewable energy being produced that might otherwise go to waste.

Air source heat pump users in particular were able to take advantage of this tariff to heat their home and hot water at the cheapest, greenest times, unlocking significant savings.

Why does flexibility matter?

The grid must always be balanced. Supply - energy put into the grid by generators - and demand - the energy being used by everyone connected - must always match up to avoid power cuts or damage to the grid.

Flexibility, the ability to fine tune supply and demand, means the grid can adapt quickly to sudden or unexpected changes.

For too long, this flexibility provided simply by turning dirty fossil fuel generation on and off when it’s required. While these methods are quick to respond when needed, they come at a huge environmental cost.

So why not just replace all of the existing fossil fuel infrastructure with renewable energy right away? We can’t make the sun shine or the wind blow whenever we want. To smooth out the peaks and troughs of supply and demand, we can instead look towards individual flexibility. This means finding ways to store green energy in batteries and other devices, and release it out into the grid when it’s needed.