'Enough power for Birmingham and Leeds': Octopus passes 1GW EV battery management milestone

Stuart Stone
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Intelligent Octopus Go tariff now managing 150,000 EV batteries, providing sufficient flexible capacity to power two of the UK's largest cities for an entire evening

Octopus Energy has today revealed its Intelligent Octopus Go electric vehicle (EV) tariff has chalked off another major milestone, with the company now dynamically managing 1GW of battery capacity - enough...

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