“ What ' s really special about the Kraken is it kind of replaces all of the outdated software that many companies use to run themselves ”
climate change on our planet and our species . Broadly speaking , the move to renewables involves solving the same problem in many countries .
So actually I think the existence of a global platform for decarbonisation helps take whatever you learn in one country , any algorithms , and immediately deploy it everywhere . So rather than thinking of it as having problems in global deployment , it ' s a colossal opportunity .
Q . IN WHAT OTHER WAYS DO YOU THINK TECHNOLOGY WILL SUPPORT OCTOPUS ENERGY IN THE FUTURE ?
» I think the biggest thing we have to do now is start turning electricity grids into an internet for electricity . So that if you go to the control room of any grid operated like the national grid , it looks like a minicab office and we need to turn into Uber . So the huge opportunity of Octopus Energy , but really for the energy system , is to digitise not just the kind of customer experience and some of the data generation , but the entire system , so that at any moment in time we are using these astonishing green electrons as efficiently as possible .
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