Nuclear at Sea: Navigating Regulatory Confluence

Nuclear at Sea: Navigating Regulatory Confluence

Nuclear at Sea: Navigating Regulatory Confluence

A new paper titled “Facilitating Global Deployment of Floating Nuclear Power Plants” has been published by World Nuclear Association’s Cooperation in Reactor Design Evaluation and Licensing (CORDEL) Working Group. This paper highlights the benefits of the technology and focuses on progress made in the regulatory space, which is required for their international deployment. The pledged … Read more

Carbon-Related Tariffs and Energy Policy

Carbon-Related Tariffs and Energy Policy

Key Takeaways: Carbon tariffs are fees attached to imports based on the amount of carbon emissions released during the manufacture of a product. Carbon tariffs can pressure countries to start investing in renewable energy and other green initiatives to avoid the additional fees.  Enforcing carbon-related tariffs can be difficult because a product may pass through … Read more

Tips to Reduce Temperatures During Summers in Texas

Tips to Reduce Temperatures During Summers in Texas

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

Spotlight on… Wenye, Back-end developer

Spotlight on… Wenye, Back-end developer

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

Higher Education and Virtue – 2GreenEnergy.com

Higher Education and Virtue – 2GreenEnergy.com

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

Update on smart meter installations (2020)

Update on smart meter installations (2020)

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 Upgrades Healthcare System’s Energy Portfolio

RENEW Energy Partners Upgrades Healthcare System’s Energy Portfolio

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