In 2025, AI and EVs gave the US an insatiable hunger for power

You may be surprised to learn electricity only accounts for 21 percent of the world’s energy consumption. Fossil fuels and the rest all play their part to make the world go around, but their role is [...]

Octopus Charge puts 210,000 US chargers in one app, without Tesla, Ionna or Electrify America

Octopus Energy has launched Octopus Charge in the US, Canada and Mexico, aggregating more than 210,000 chargers from over 20 networks with no markup on energy prices. Its European equivalent covers 1. [...]

Oldest octopus fossil found to not be an octopus 

Supposed “first octopus” was something else entirely. [...]

The companies burning the most electricity are buying carbon credits from genetically engineered trees

Octopus Energy Generation has committed $500 million to Living Carbon, a San Francisco biotech company that plants trees on degraded land to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The deal, announ [...]

‘Plug-in batteries are the real game-changer’: I talked to Octopus Energy and Anker about the home energy revolution than could soon be 'bigger than solar' for millions

Could plug-in home batteries soon eclipse plug-in solar for home energy savings? I spoke to Anker, Octopus Energy, EcoFlow and WindFall Energy to find out. [...]

Professors say today's solar eclipse won’t crash the grid — so why is Octopus Energy paying customers to switch off?

Octopus Energy has issued a solar eclipse power warning, but there's no need to panic. [...]

Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘screwed up’ the writing quality on ChatGPT 5.2 – and promises future versions won’t ‘neglect’ it

ChatGPT 5.2’s writing ability was ‘screwed up,’ Sam Altman said at a recent town hall meeting – but improvements are on the way. [...]

'We're buzzing': Octopus Energy is giving away more free electricity to its 8 million customers — and it could stop the UK wasting £1.5 billion to shut down wind farms

Octopus Energy is expanding free electricity schemes as renewable oversupply forces costly shutdowns of wind farms across the national grid. [...]

Octopus Energy just announced 30kWh home batteries to compete with Tesla Powerwall — but they won't go on sale till 2027

Octopus launches plug-in and wall-mounted batteries reaching 30kWh capacities across five European countries in 2027. [...]