# Can Octopus Energy Wrap Its Arms Around North America? | Demand Flexibility & More With Eric Davids | BONUS

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Podcast: [Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems](https://stenobird.com/podcast/energy-vs-climate-how-climate-is-changing-our-energy-systems-2990266)
Published: 2026-07-24T04:00:00+00:00
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Octopus Energy paid its UK customers collectively over £100,000 during a recent heat wave, not through new infrastructure, but a text message and a price signal offering demand flexibility. That caught our attention. In this episode, Ed and Sara (David sits this one out) talk with Eric Davids, Head of Strategy for Octopus Energy's US business, about redefining utility-customer relationships, how approaches in the UK stack up against North American utilities' much blunter "please conserve" gr...

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