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From the homepage of their website - Octopus energy, still banging on about the cost of switching off windmills. Still banging the anti green energy drum? The headline figure, used on its own - is designed to mislead, to inflate and inflame - after all, spending £1.5bn paying windmills to switch off sounds bad. Let’s add some context. Britain’s windmills contributed nearly 30% of our electricity in 2025 - with a wholesale value approaching £50bn. That makes the £1.5bn cost of turning them off just 3% of their total generated value - or put another way, we only got 97% of the benefit we could have had - while we wait for the grid upgrades that will enable wind energy to flow more freely in times of abundance. Are Octopus anti green energy or are they just sulking over the rejection by Ed Miliband and DESNZ of the hopeless ‘zonal pricing’ concept they lobbied so hard for? Probably that one, but the anti green lobby will be pleased to have this apparent support. Meanwhile, here’s a stat Octopus won’t headline on their website - they lost £260m last year, from being an energy middleman, buying and selling the stuff that other people make.