Key Takeaways: Adjusting your thermostat to a higher temperature during the summer can significantly reduce energy consumption while remaining cool. Programmable thermostats can compound your savings and comfort by raising the temperature when you’re not home and lowering it just before you return. Cooking outdoors is an outside-the-box way to create the tasty meals you … Read more

Our business is made up of 1,000+ fantastic people working on stuff you’d never expect, all pushing hard towards a shared goal: driving the global green energy revolution. In our Spotlight series, we’ll introduce you to some of the brilliant people behind the scenes at Octopus. Wenye Zhao has been part of Octopus Energy for … Read more

It’s no secret the solar industry has been stockpiling components such as panels and racking since before the Inflation Reduction Act. Under threat of a shortened runway to qualify for credits recently made reality with the passage of the reconciliation bill, the trend has very definitely accelerated. Developers and EPCs are rushing to safe harbor … Read more

Obviously, not all college graduates are good people; of course there is no guarantee that higher education carries virtue along with it. Yet there is clearly a strong correlation.  There is a reason (perhaps many reasons) that Donald Trump does particularly well with people in states that are at the bottom of the rankings in … Read more

I am overwhelmed when I see the interest that Octopus’s smart tariffs generate. When we set out on this journey, we were told that customers didn’t care about electricity, and that they’d never respond to the price signals of variable tariffs. Instead, there’s a huge appetite for Octopus’s smart tariffs – whenever I open Facebook … Read more

RENEW Energy Partners, a provider specializing in financing and deploying large-scale energy projects, has advanced the energy portfolio of Mass General Brigham (MGB), a nonprofit integrated healthcare system and biomedical research organization, with a major upgrade at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. The project announced July 9 includes a new distributed energy generation system and increases energy … Read more

Since 2019, Germany’s Climate Protection Act has had aimed to reduce Germany’s carbon emissions to zero by 2045. The incoming new government has to adhere to this law. Will it though? Credits: MDV Edwards, All rights reserved. The topic of the climate crisis barely made it into this winter’s election campaign – and when it … Read more

In response to the meme at left, it’s not “miserable” that these people believe what they do.  Many of history’s most revered intellectuals have commented that intelligent people are far less capable of happiness than the common idiot.  Check out Schopenhauer. FWIW, I’m not too sure.

Lime UK is propelling a new vision for sustainable cities. We keep their mission fully charged, supplying Lime’s e-bikes with 100% clean, green energy. Lime UK provides easy, green, electrified transport for tomorrow’s cities, helping us to move away from cars by offering another green, socially distant alternative to standard public transport. Lime currently provides … Read more

On 9 April 2025, Germany’s incoming government of Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD) concluded a governing ‘contract’ that paves the way for the partners to take office in May. The new chancellor will be CDU chief Friedrich Merz, who underscored in the campaign that climate protection would not be a top priority. Paul … Read more