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MARCH _ 2019

OCTOPUS ENERGY
SUPPLIES ENERGY
ACROSS THE WHOLE
OF THE UK
Beyond the environment

possible for all sizes of business to take
the leap to 100% renewable electricity.

Sunshine power

Octopus supplies energy across the whole
of the UK, and our expansion plans
extend beyond London. Our first few
years of life saw impressive growth levels,
and by May 2017 - with around 100,000
customers served by 30 energy specialists
- had opened a second site in Leicester.
In that city we have cultivated such a
special relationship with local enterprise
that we decided to develop a bespoke
green energy tariff especially for SMEs
in Leicestershire. Dubbed Leicester
Business Power, this tariff brings 100%
renewable electricity for local businesses,
generated from Seaton Road Solar Farm
just a few miles from the city centre.
Leicester Business Power champions
affordable sustainability, maximising
local solar generation and making true
our customer-first commitment to offer
a second-to-none utilities experience at
rates comparable to the leading "brown"
energy tariffs on the market - all with
energy that's kind to the planet.
What's so special about Leicester
Business Power is its ability to make
the effects of energy-conscious business
decisions tangible. Businesses that go
green with Octopus Energy receive
tailored information about the amount
of carbon offset as a direct result.
Our sustainability efforts in Leicester
go beyond powering local businesses.
We're a key member of Leicester BID
(Business Improvement District), giving
us a direct hand in local sustainability
projects to reinforce the local impetus
to go green and act sustainably.

Leicester is in the midst of complete
relaunch, and with this council
regeneration brings a wealth of talent
from a pool of new graduates from
the University of Leicester and De
Montfort University. We didn't want
this talent to go to waste, and our
office hit 100 full-time employees by
the end of 2018 - the vast majority
local East Midlands graduates.
Not only are we helping to keep
Leicester's brightest in Leicester, we're
also driving the local business economy,
with our new M&S Energy contract
operations run by our Leicester team,
bringing with it an extra 80 jobs to our
second office, surplus to the 200 to 250
already expected in the coming months.

Octopus Business Power

Leicester Business Power is a trial for
this sort of hyper-local sustainability
initiative. The potential for a local
green tariff anywhere in the UK is
possible, and we plan to emulate
this approach across the UK.
Right now, our focus is on business
customers - a demographic regularly
left behind by the energy market - but
we're also looking at developing a
parallel tariff for domestic customers.
Local businesses have a huge
leadership role to play across the UK, and
we hope that by embracing the Leicester
Business Power tariff they will inspire
their customers to think about how they
can become more sustainable too, while
spearheading change in other UK cities.
One day, we will see a UK that
eats, breathes, works and plays
on local sunshine power.
For more information,
visit octopus.energy and
octopus.energy/business
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