Enjoy life with zero energy bills for at least five years, guaranteed.
THE GOLD STANDARD IN GREEN HOMES
Imagine living in a home where energy bills are a thing of the past. Where the heat from your underfloor heating, the light from your lamps, the fresh food from your fridge, and everything else that uses electricity costs you absolutely nothing to run.
Together with Octopus Energy, we’ve made this dream a reality. Building our homes with solar panels, home batteries, heat pumps and super-insulated walls and roofs, it really is possible to live free from energy bills.
Welcome to the next generation of sustainable living.
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HOW ZERO BILLS WORKS
Your Zero Bills home is built with best-in-class energy efficiency, plus solar panels, heat pump, house battery and smart technology to help you live comfortably and carbon-free.
Working with our home hardware, Octopus’ tech platform, Kraken, balances the cost of drawing energy from the grid with the energy it feeds back in. The result: a home with no energy bills.
FIVE STEPS TO ZERO BILLS
- Move into your new Zero Bills home
- Receive your welcome pack from Octopus Energy
- Activate your Zero Bills account online
- Set your heating preferences in the app
- Enjoy your new home - we'll take care of the rest
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Yes, Zero Bills is an Octopus initiative. When you buy your new home, activating your Zero Bills plan is easy. Octopus will send you a Welcome Pack on move-in day with simple steps to follow online.
Octopus currently guarantee to offer the Zero Bill for 5 years. This will be updated over time.
Octopus have included a ‘Fair Use Allowance’ in their Zero Bills plan. This is set at approximately double the expected household usage, so customers should only exceed this allowance if they have very high heating preferences.
For electricity used above the Fair Use Allowance, you will be billed at the Flexible Octopus unit rate, with billing done on an annual basis.
One day, we hope cars will be as efficient as our homes. Until then, they consume a lot of electricity. For this reason, EV charging is not included within the Zero Bills allowance, but will be billed separately at Intelligent Octopus tariff unit rates. The rest of your home’s energy needs remain free.
BUILT BY VERTO
Founded in 2010, our goal is to help everybody live zero carbon.
As the UK’s leading sustainable housebuilder, all our homes produce zero carbon emissions. But we’re not stopping there. We continue to make our designs more energy efficient, and our homes now create more renewable energy than they consume.
For us, Zero Bills is the natural next step on a journey we started over a decade ago. We’re thrilled to be partnering with Octopus Energy for this exciting new phase of our adventure.
POWERED BY OCTOPUS ENERGY
Octopus launched in 2016 to make energy cheaper and greener for everyone. Today it is the UK’s second largest energy supplier with 5.4 million domestic customers.
As well as prioritising renewable power, Octopus designs cleaner, smarter and more affordable energy solutions (like Zero Bills) which are vital to achieving a net zero future.
Octopus’ mission is to deliver 10,000 ‘Zero Bills’ homes by 2025 across the UK and beyond.