Octopus Energy has expanded its ‘Zero Bills’ initiative into Scotland through partnerships with Homes for Scotland and MAST Architects.
The Zero Bills tariff is an initiative by the utility that guarantees homes that incorporate green technologies, such as a heat pump, battery, and solar panels, will not be billed. Octopus does not charge customers for ten years because the homes generate more energy than they consume.
Octopus is working with MAST Architects on a flagship design for a Zero Bills home in Scotland, and it has also partnered with Homes for Scotland, a trade association for housebuilders, to enable its members to integrate the initiative.
In September, Octopus set the target of building 100,000 Zero Bills homes by 2030 and it also recently launched the tariff for customers in Germany. Vistry, purportedly the UK’s largest housebuilder, piloted the delivery of the properties across several of its developments.
Octopus has previously said it will retrofit homes to make them eligible for the Zero Bills tariff, suggesting 500,000 UK properties, built since 2013, could be upgraded.
Although Octopus has been the biggest electricity supplier since April 2024, Centrica-owned British Gas had held the overall largest market share because of its dominance in the gas supply market.
