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Octopus Energy Group is a British renewable energy group. It was founded in 2015 with the backing of Octopus Group, a British asset management company.Headquartered in London, the company has operations in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the United States.
The company is now the second largest energy supplier in the UK, and has expanded to other markets including Japan and Australia. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The Financial Times reported in 2023 that "Octopus’s credentials as a disrupter have helped win the backing of investors including Generation Investment Management , chaired by former US vice ...
Octopus, which is the UK’s biggest electricity supplier with nearly seven million customers, said the new financing offer means more people will benefit from the “cheap, clean energy source”.
Octopus Energy was established in 2015 as a retail electricity and gas supplier in the UK, and by December 2019, had over 1.35 million domestic and business customers. Under the Octopus Energy Group brand, it has expanded into energy for business and energy services, and licences its customer handling software to other energy suppliers.
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Participant homes are powered with renewable energy either from solar panels or from Octopus Energy. [27] In June 2024, German companies Enpal and Entrix announced plans to create Europe's largest Virtual Power Plant (VPP). The VPP will integrate a large number of decentralized energy resources including solar panels, batteries, and electric ...
In September 2023, it was reported that Octopus Energy would acquire Shell's household energy business in the UK and in Germany, in a deal expected to complete in late 2023. Octopus would take over providing energy for 1.4 million homes as well as broadband services for 500,000 customers. [ 28 ]
Bulb Energy Ltd., trading as Bulb, was an energy supply company in the United Kingdom acquired by Octopus Energy in 2022. Founded in 2013, the company attracted venture capital from DST Global and Magnetar Capital and ran at a financial loss while achieving rapid growth in customers. [ 3 ]