Octopus Energy

WOW - we were just named one of The Times Best Places to Work 2026 - our fourth year on the list. To celebrate, we did what all offices do on big occasions, and sent round a giant novelty card. Only a couple of accidental Happy Birthdays 🤞 An award like this is always about the people. At Octopus we're a load of like-minded, positive humans who want to make a big green dent in the world and do everything for customers. You can't plan a culture like this. It just sort of happens when you get a load of great people in one place and let them get on with it. So to every Octopus - past, present and future - a big thanks for making the vibe what it is, and congrats again! 🐙 And if it sounds like your sort of place to work, please have a look!! 👉 https://octo.ps/4uthfMh #TheSundayTimesBestPlacesToWork WorkL

Glasto' might be on a fallow year but it doesn't matter because #EnergyTechSummit is BACK, June 22 in London 🧠 500 pairs of tix up for grabs for Octoplus customers. Watch this space – more info on how to enter coming soon. This year, join Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia co-founder), @William Kamkwamba (inventor), Hannah Fry (math legend) and Tim Peake (astronaut), hosted by Steph McGovern (tv host). Many more trailblazing speakers to be announced. More info: energytechsummit.co.uk Every fossil fuel crisis ends the same way: with higher bills for customers. The answer is cheaper, cleaner energy, smarter tech and systems that make energy more secure and more affordable. We can't wait to get customers in a room with innovators and policymakers to accelerate the energy system we desperately need.

We regret to inform you that our marketing team has seen The Devil Wears Prada 2. Here's to every new starter at 🐙 who walked in thinking energy was boring - and three months later, is incapable of shutting up about the energy price cap and wasted wind.

Greener homes and smarter energy systems don’t build themselves. Meet the 2026 OTP Award winners 🏆 We can't deliver solar, heat pumps and batteries at scale alone. So we work with brilliant installers across the country to go further than we ever could by ourselves. That's the Octopus Trusted Partners programme. Growing faster by the day. This week we celebrate the people making it happen. We were so proud we took out full page ads in the national press to shout about it (because a LinkedIn post wasn't enough!) Congrats to all the winners (especially iHeat taking home the Grand Tentacle Prize 🐙) These are the businesses on the frontline of Britain's energy transition. Proud to have them with us ⚡️ 🏆 Solar & Battery Installer of the Year - EE Renewables 🏆 Grand Tentacle Prize for Most Innovative Business - iHeat 🏆 Campaign of the Year - Gone Solar 🏆 Most Customer Focused Installer - Kevin Boyle @ ACC Renewable Energy Ltd. 🏆 Small Business of the Year - Stag Solar 🏆 Community Champion of the Year - SGS Energy 🏆 Cosy Installer of the Year - Greener Energy Group 🏆 Octopus Trusted Partner of the Year - ECO Providers

The boss of Britain's biggest energy supplier is telling the government to spend less money on energy... Hang on, what? There's a plan to upgrade Britain's electricity grid that's heading towards an enormous £70bn+ bill for consumers. The assumption baked into it is that the only way to get a clean power system to build loads more transmission lines. Greg Jackson’s point in The Telegraph is pretty simple: there's often smarter, cheaper alternatives. New technology can make far better use of the grid we already have. Grid-scale batteries and local flexibility can offer a faster cheaper alternative to building new wires. Network upgrade costs are already set to be the single biggest driver of household bill increases between now and 2030. Bills could be close to £2,000 this winter. The government's instinct is a targeted support package, and we get it. But fix the underlying cost first. Cut the waste from the programme, run a leaner system, and there's far less pressure for bailouts in the first place. Turns out the most effective support package is not wasting £70bn in the first place.

500,000 customers in 5 years in Japan - the world's largest competitive energy market. 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 Today, Octopus Energy was part of Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper's visit to Japan - where she held up our work with Tokyo Gas as 'an exemplar' of UK-Japan clean energy partnership. Our partnership with Tokyo Gas goes back to 2020, when we launched energy retailer TG Octopus Energy together and in 2023, Tokyo Gas became the first company in Japan to license the Kraken technology platform. Together we're showing what this kind of partnership can actually deliver: British clean energy technology, deployed at scale, making energy greener and more affordable for millions of Japanese homes. Half a million customers later, we can’t wait to see what comes next. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office UK in Japan

People in Britain want energy security that doesn't depend on what's happening thousands of miles away. As the Middle East conflict continues to shake the world - people are asking us about solar, heat pumps and electric cars in record numbers. Solar sales up 54%. Heat pumps up 51%. EV leasing up 36%. Battery installations nearly doubled. Clean energy and electric tech are becoming the obvious choice for Britain: not just because it's the right thing for the planet. Because it makes financial sense, and the product is simply better. The Financial Times likened it this week to Americans swapping their Cadillacs for Fords in 1973 - and despite everything going on in the world right now, the point stands: people make smarter choices when the old ones stop making sense.

It's official: every new home in England will be built with solar panels and clean heating – like heat pumps – from 2028. It's been a big week for energy, here's what you need to know: ☀️The Future Homes Standard is finally here. After a decade delay (the original policy was scrapped in 2015), from 2028 new builds all get solar, and electric heating instead of gas boilers. Homes will produce at least 75% less carbon than 2013 standard homes. And they'll be up to £830/year cheaper to run. 🏠 (Psst, are you a housebuilder or developer? Find out more & talk to Octopus Zero Bills: https://lnkd.in/eCWehwW6 💨 Discounted energy bills on windy days. That's the government's new plan. Right now, the UK spends ~£1.5B a year paying wind farms to switch off - and replacing them with gas. (Yes - that really happens!) The government wants to fix that by trialling discounted bills in those areas instead. It's a step in the right direction. But as our CEO Greg Jackson put it: "We've been pushing for this for years. Don't trial it - go the whole hog." Make it permanent. Let people invest in heat pumps, EVs and batteries knowing cheap clean power is here to stay. 📈 People want out of the fossil fuel rollercoaster. Since the current energy crisis began, it’s no coincidence our clean energy tech sales have surged: ⚡️Solar enquiries are up 54%. ⚡️Heat pump sales up 51%  ⚡️EV leasing enquiries are up 36%  ⚡️Battery installations nearly doubled last year People want energy independence and over 1.85million UK homes are building it themselves. Want in on our low carbon technology 👉https://lnkd.in/ez7kK78S The direction is clear: cleaner, cheaper, homegrown energy. The future is electric.

The future is electric. We need to burn less stuff. Last night on ITV Robert Peston, Greg Jackson broke down why the countries doubling down on electrification aren't just cleaner - they're building the economies that will leave fossil fuel nations behind. We're not waiting to find out which side of history we land on.