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A young company appears to be aptly named after a highly intelligent, adaptable creature, overcoming potential pitfalls to expand the clean-energy grid.
As Canary Media detailed, Octopus Energy is providing affordable, non-polluting electricity to approximately 5.3 million consumers worldwide and now serves 18% of the retail energy market in the United Kingdom.
A main key to the company’s growth is the unique background of its founders, who come from the enterprise software industry.
“Fundamentally, we believe that renewable energy, a clean energy future, is a cheaper energy future. And our job is to build a system that makes that possible, that brings that benefit to households, but also to businesses and to economies,” founder and CEO Greg Jackson told the outlet at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, last…
