Inside Octopus Energy
Episodes
Ep25: Seen, Not Just Supplied - The Octopus Energy Social Workers
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“The last thing in the world I was expecting was the guy that was coming to see about solar panels was going to [...] get me help that I probably wo...
Ep24: Into the Electroverse, with Matt Davies and Ginny Buckley
04 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Public charging doesn’t have to be complicated – in fact it can be a breeze. In this episode of Inside Octopus, we spotlight Octopus Electrovers...
Ep23: Inside Octopus’ Energy Tech Summit 2025
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Step inside the electrifying atmosphere of Octopus’s Energy Tech Summit, where more than 3,000 customers, innovators and industry leaders gathered i...
Ep22: Load flexibility is the US grid’s next power move
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if the most effective lever in the US energy transition is not more generation, but shifting when and how energy is consumed? As EVs, AI, and ele...
Ep21: Powering green careers
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Octopus Energy is rapidly expanding its engineering services to deploy low-carbon technologies to help the UK transition to a net zero energy system. ...
Ep20: The UK energy market is broken OR why we need zonal pricing
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Russell Goldsmith hosts Greg Jackson, founder of Octopus Energy, and Jason Mann, Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting, to discu...
Ep 19: Ink-redible AI: Kraken’s push for a fairer, greener grid
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s hard to keep up with the pace at which AI is changing our lives – and energy is one of the many areas it is rapidly transforming. In this epi...
Ep 18: Spreading its tentacles: Octopus’ growth in Spain
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Since launching the Octopus Energy brand in Spain, the clean energy retailer has grown from a team of ten employees, to over 500. In addition to energ...
Ep 17: Fuelling Change - How heat pumps can help us get off our addiction to gas
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Heat pumps are like magic, turning one unit of energy into three to four units of heat. In this episode, our podcast host Russell Goldsmith chats with...
Ep 16: How Kraken is powering a transformation at Octopus and beyond
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How Kraken – the world’s first next-gen energy operating system – is powering a transformation at Octopus and beyondAt the heart of everything t...
Ep 15: Zero Bills homes: Getting rid of energy bills for good
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Introducing Zero Bills: the first-of-its-kind smart tariff providing eligible households zero bills for five years, guaranteed. In this episode, we ta...
Ep 14: Electric dreams: The growth story of Octopus Electric Vehicles
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The EV market has taken off in recent years, and we're right at the forefront of the transition. In this episode, we talk to Fiona Howarth, CEO of Oct...
Ep 13: How our US team is achieving rapid growth while helping customers through the energy crisis
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're back across the pond to talk to the US team about the exciting growth they've seen over the last 18 months since launching in Texas. We ch...
Episode 12: A new energy era - how households can help balance the grid AND get paid for it
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our podcast host, Russell Goldsmith, chats with Alex Schoch, who heads up our global flexibility team, and Devrim Celal, the CEO of O...
Bonus Episode: Energy Saving Tips with the Founder of the Energy Advice UK Facebook group
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The well regarded Energy Advice UK Facebook group, founded by Gemma Hatvani in 2020, now holds nearly 100,000 members. Octopus's Chief Product Office...
Episode 11: The Fan Club - providing cheaper energy when the wind is blowing
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Octopus Energy is known for its breakthrough innovations - one of the most exciting ones is The Fan Club, the world’s first local tariff that provid...
Episode 10: Going Global and meeting the team in Germany
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 8, we chatted to the people who head up Octopus Energy around the world. And so off the back of that discussion, we decided to invite each ...
Episode 9: How we're making energy greener
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Green energy is already the cheapest way to generate electricity, but we need to build a lot more solar and wind farms to move the world to a fully gr...
News Special: The Energy Crisis
12 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The UK currently faces a massive hike in energy bills as a result of global energy prices, which will force many more families into fuel poverty. The ...
Episode 8: Going global, one country at a time
30 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In just five years, Octopus Energy has gone from strength to strength and become a truly global company. In this episode, our host Russell Goldsmith t...
COP26 Special: The Kids are all Bright
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a first for the Inside Octopus podcast, we throw out the rulebook and feature no representative from the eponymous company. Instead, we speak to th...
Episode 7: A sneak peak inside Octopus Energy’s £10 million training and R&D centre
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our podcast host, Russell Goldsmith, makes a road trip to Octopus Energy’s multi-million pound commitment to the decarbonisation of...
Episode 6: The transformative power of Kraken
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 2, we already spoke about our technology platform Kraken - the giant robot that sits at the heart of Octopus Energy and the enabler of our ...
Episode 5: Why Octopus Energy doesn't have an HR department
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In February 2021, Greg Jackson, CEO and founder of Octopus Energy, explained on the BBC's CEO Secrets series why Octopus Energy decided against having...
Episode 4: Interview with Rachel Fletcher, Director of Regulation and Economics
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Host Russell Goldsmith welcomes Rachel Fletcher to Octopus Energy and chats about why she left her role as CEO of UK water regulator Ofwat to become o...
News Special: Octopus Energy US launch & the Texas Energy Crisis
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This special episode introduces the team who recently launched Octopus Energy US in Texas, just days before the State was hit by one of the worst wint...
Episode 3: Growth
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Inside Octopus Energy, we focus on growth and what it takes to go from zero to over 1.8 million customers in just four years. Hos...
Episode 2: Technology
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Inside Octopus Energy, the topic of conversation was the unique technology that sits behind our products and services that is helpi...
News Special: PM & Chancellor Visit Octopus Energy
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This special episode was recorded after the UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, visited Octopus Energy's London offices to ...
Episode 0: Launch
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Following on from our previous episode's discussion around our company culture, we decided to take a step back and record what feels like a bit of a p...
Episode 1: Culture
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lots of people want to know what happens inside Octopus Energy. Most importantly, our ever-expanding team. When we started, we all sat within earshot ...