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

Imagine that there actually is an increase in the number of beached whales in New England and that you want to know the cause.  You can ask a marine biologist who’s been studying this subject for more than 20 years, or you can ask Donald Trump, as in this video. It’s amazing.  With each passing … Read more

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.