Flex appeal: Octopus Energy customers join second Saving Session

Saving session

Hundreds of thousands of Octopus Energy customers participated in its second energy reduction session whilst helping balance the grid, preliminary results have revealed. The new Saving Sessions scheme is enabled by National Grid ESO’s new Demand Flexibility Service which allows households to get paid for shifting their energy usage out of peak times. Over 200,000 […]

Octopus Energy customers provide 108MW of grid flexibility

Octopus Energy has released the preliminary results from its first ever ‘Saving Session’, a new energy reduction scheme that allows households to get paid for shifting their energy usage out of peak times. Octopus invited all of its 1.4 million electric smart meter customers to join the revolutionary new scheme, which runs from November to […]

Octopus Energy and Lloyds bring heat pump offer to UK households

Octopus Energy and Lloyds Banking Group have announced a pilot scheme bringing a heat pump offer to UK households, in a move to reduce energy bills for customers and decarbonise the heating of homes. Under the scheme, Halifax mortgage customers can get a heat pump installed from as little as £2,000. Octopus Energy will provide […]

Octopus Energy’s EV roaming service surpasses milestone

Octopus Energy’s electric vehicle roaming service, Electric Universe, has surpassed 300,000 charge points globally as it rebrands to supercharge international growth. Only two years since launch, it is now one of the world’s largest ‘virtual’ EV charging networks. Electric Universe (formerly Electric Juice) is making charging electric cars simple, allowing drivers to use just one […]

Octopus Energy extends Fan Club tentacles into West Yorkshire

Octopus Energy Generation is accelerating the rollout of its popular Fan Club model by launching its third local wind tariff in Halifax, West Yorkshire. The latest addition to the Fan Club is bigger than its predecessors. The 2MW wind turbine, built by Siemens, is part of the Ovenden Moor Wind Farm and generates enough home-grown […]

Shift project makes positive change for customers

The UK’s biggest electricity distributor is opening the way for local residents to join the energy ‘flexibility’ market to help cut the costs of running their electric vehicles (EVs). New ways of smart charging have been successfully tested by UK Power Networks to deliver greener energy at a lower cost for customers who charge their […]

Octopus Energy enters German renewable generation market

Octopus Energy Group’s generation arm, one of the largest investors in solar and wind energy in Europe, has signed its first renewable generation deal in Germany, helping to boost the country’s energy security. Octopus Energy Generation’s fund management team will build ‘Gaishecke’, a 35MW onshore wind farm in Hessen, near Frankfurt. Construction will kick off […]

Octopus Energy’s electric blanket scheme saves customers £300 on bills

Octopus Energy’s new energy efficiency scheme, Octopus Electric Blankets, has seen customers reduce their bills by 19% – a £300 per year saving. The new scheme, which was launched in January 2022, is one of several measures the company set up since the start of the crisis to support customers who were worried about heating […]

Octopus Energy backs solar farm in Morocco to power heat pumps

Octopus Energy has announced a financial and strategic partnership with Xlinks. Xlinks will speed up the UK’s transition to net zero by laying four 3,800km-long subsea cables to connect a huge renewable energy farm in the Moroccan desert with Devon, South West England. The site will supply 3.6 GW of reliable, clean power to the […]

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