Spikes Excitement Talk #227 with Bastian Gierull

What keeps me busy? Well, I mean, we are a rapidly growing company, Octopus.

Not only do we want to be one of the largest energy suppliers in Germany, we also want to revolutionize the energy market, make it fairer for everyone.

We want to move the energy transition forward, bringing down prices.

and helping scale renewable energies across the country.

We install low carbon tech.

We want to install more heat pumps.

We want to install more smart meters, more chargers.

We lease EVs nowadays.

So you can, both in the breadth and the depth of everything that we do, those are the things that keep me busy.

So that's not just a tiny bit.

But, well, it sounds like just after this really hot summer, you're also up to a hot topic when it comes to reducing carbons and looking for energy.

So is there a point of the year when Octopus or the energy market is especially busy? So do you see effects during the year?

This is a funny one because we always say, like, we'll deal with this when it gets quieter.

And then we're here now, we've done this for six years here in Germany, and now this is sort of like a running gag.

Oh, yeah, which is never.

So we might as well do it now.

Theoretically, the energy market is busiest towards the end of the year.

People tend to switch their energy contracts beginning in autumn.

The heating period starts.

That's usually the busiest.

But the reality is we are also very busy in the middle of August when actually it's holiday season.

Because there's always something to do.

As I said, we do so many different things.

And you kind of hinted at it.

As we can see it in the climate and both in the political discussion that we're having, sort of the topic around climate change, around energy in general, about cost of living and then cost of energy is getting, pun intended, more heated.

What keeps me busy? Well, I mean, we are a rapidly growing company, Octopus.

Not only do we want to be one of the largest energy suppliers in Germany, we also want to revolutionize the energy market, make it fairer for everyone.

We want to move the energy transition forward, bringing down prices.

and helping scale renewable energies across the country.

We install low carbon tech.

We want to install more heat pumps.

We want to install more smart meters, more chargers.

We lease EVs nowadays.

So you can, both in the breadth and the depth of everything that we do, those are the things that keep me busy.

So that's not just a tiny bit.

But, well, it sounds like just after this really hot summer, you're also up to a hot topic when it comes to reducing carbons and looking for energy.

So is there a point of the year when Octopus or the energy market is especially busy? So do you see effects during the year?

This is a funny one because we always say, like, we'll deal with this when it gets quieter.

And then we're here now, we've done this for six years here in Germany, and now this is sort of like a running gag.

Oh, yeah, which is never.

So we might as well do it now.

Theoretically, the energy market is busiest towards the end of the year.

People tend to switch their energy contracts beginning in autumn.

The heating period starts.

That's usually the busiest.

But the reality is we are also very busy in the middle of August when actually it's holiday season.

Because there's always something to do.

As I said, we do so many different things.

And you kind of hinted at it.

As we can see it in the climate and both in the political discussion that we're having, sort of the topic around climate change, around energy in general, about cost of living and then cost of energy is getting, pun intended, more heated.