‘We need to keep going hell-for-leather on renewables’ says Octopus Energy boss
“It’s simple: if we’d moved to renewables sooner as a continent, the crisis wouldn’t be as bad now. And we can’t carry on like this, we have to escape from these colossal gas prices from the global markets,” said Greg Jackson, founder and CEO of UK’s Octopus Energy.
The critical role of renewable energy and the need to expedite projects were some of the issues emphasised in an exclusive interview with Greg Jackson, who has a clear passion for putting the consumer first.
Jackson also spoke to the increasingly important contribution of decentralised energy and digitalisation as fundamentals to their consumer-centric business model.
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