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Octopus Energy

Energy retailer and technology group whose Kraken platform runs utility operations and coordinates virtual power plants worldwide.

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📋About Octopus Energy

Updated August 26, 2026

Octopus Energy is a global clean-energy retailer and technology group whose Kraken platform manages tens of millions of utility customer accounts and licenses to other energy suppliers worldwide. Kraken also operates as a virtual power plant, using AI to coordinate EVs, home batteries, solar, and heat pumps into dispatchable grid flexibility, and the business is being spun out as a standalone software company.

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Octopus KrakenEnergy AI

Utility-operations platform and AI virtual power plant coordinating EVs, batteries, solar, and heat pumps.

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