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Company description
OCTOPUS ENERGY LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 14 October 2014; registered for 11 years; registered office reported in LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM. Its primary declared activity is 35140 · Trade of electricity, with 1 additional SIC activity reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 5 procurement records. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- OCTOPUS ENERGY LIMITED
- Company number
- 09263424
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 11 total · 8 outstanding · 3 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
30 April 2025Next accounts due
31 January 2027Last statement made up to
30 April 2026Next statement due
14 May 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 3.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 18.5%
- Women receiving bonus
- 65.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 64.9%
- Women in top quartile
- 48.4%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 52.1%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 53.7%
- Women in lower quartile
- 52.9%
Earlier reporting years (5)
- 1000 to 49990.2% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 4999-3.5% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 4999-6.2% median hourly gap
- 500 to 999-5.1% median hourly gap
- 500 to 999-5.5% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 25 November 2025 – 30 April 2026
- Filed
- 7 August 2026
- Shortest standard term
- Not supplied
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- E-invoicing offered
- Not supplied
- Supply-chain finance
- Not supplied
- Payment codes
- Prompt Payment Practice Report
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 May 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- No
- Payments made
- No
- Supplier-list charging policy
- Not supplied
- Supplier-list charges made
- Not supplied
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 13.0 average days to pay38.0% outside terms
- 16.0 average days to pay9.0% outside terms
- 14.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay10.0% outside terms
- 15.0 average days to pay12.0% outside terms
- 16.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 18.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 17.0 average days to pay13.0% outside terms
- 21.0 average days to pay12.0% outside terms
- 18.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
05 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
OCTOPUS ENERGY LIMITED
LEI 254900WIJ0EXIQBIKO26 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 14 October 2014
- Initial LEI registration
- 20 September 2024
- LEI last updated
- 24 August 2026
- Next renewal
- 20 September 2027
- Managing LOU
- 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12
- Other legal names
- MERCURY ENERGY SUPPLY LIMITED
- Legal address
- Uk House, 5th Floor, 164-182 Oxford Street, London, W1D 1NN, GB
- Headquarters address
- Uk House, 5th Floor, 164-182 Oxford Street, London, W1D 1NN, GB
GLEIF Level 2 relationships
IS DIRECTLY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 254900WIJ0EXIQBIKO26 to LEI 213800Q9ZJB7ZIT7WN80
- Related legal entity
- OCTOPUS ENERGY GROUP LIMITED →
- Initial registration
- 20 September 2024
- Last updated
- 22 August 2025
- Next renewal
- 20 September 2027
- Validation sources
- ENTITY_SUPPLIED_ONLY
- Validation documents
- OTHER_OFFICIAL_DOCUMENTS
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2016-04-06T00:00:00.000Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD; Start: 2023-05-01T00:00:00.000Z; End: 2024-04-30T00:00:00.000Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2022-05-01T00:00:00.000Z; End: 2023-04-30T00:00:00.000Z; Type: DOCUMENT_FILING_PERIOD
- Qualifiers
- Dimension: ACCOUNTING_STANDARD; Category: OTHER_ACCOUNTING_STANDARD
- Quantifiers
- Method: ACCOUNTING_CONSOLIDATION; Amount: 100.00
- Validation reference
- Not supplied
IS ULTIMATELY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 254900WIJ0EXIQBIKO26 to LEI 213800Q9ZJB7ZIT7WN80
- Related legal entity
- OCTOPUS ENERGY GROUP LIMITED →
- Initial registration
- 20 September 2024
- Last updated
- 22 August 2025
- Next renewal
- 20 September 2027
- Validation sources
- ENTITY_SUPPLIED_ONLY
- Validation documents
- OTHER_OFFICIAL_DOCUMENTS
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2016-04-06T00:00:00.000Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD; Start: 2023-05-01T00:00:00.000Z; End: 2024-04-30T00:00:00.000Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2022-05-01T00:00:00.000Z; End: 2023-04-30T00:00:00.000Z; Type: DOCUMENT_FILING_PERIOD
- Qualifiers
- Dimension: ACCOUNTING_STANDARD; Category: OTHER_ACCOUNTING_STANDARD
- Quantifiers
- Method: ACCOUNTING_CONSOLIDATION; Amount: 100.00
- Validation reference
- Not supplied
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
06 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Octopus Energy Limited
Registration ZA156851
- Registered from
- 5 January 2016
- Current end date
- 4 January 2027
- Trading names
- Octopus Energy
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
07 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Flex Innovation - Smart Meter based Internet of Things (IoT) Phase 2
BEIS · ocds-b5fd17-a8f66e17-9f86-4a34-8e04-5abcb96984b1
- Supplier named in award
- OCTOPUS ENERGY LIMITED
- Award value
- £1,389,494.40
- Contract period
- 20 July 2023 – 31 March 2025
- Published
- 14 August 2023
- Procedure
- Other - SBRI competition
- Main CPV
- 73110000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-a8f66e17-9f86-4a34-8e04-5abcb96984b1-2023-08-14T13:10:44+01:00
Electricity Supply to NHH RDC Stock 22-25
Rother District Council · ocds-b5fd17-ebfef7db-3b5c-42a7-9bd9-70aa3abc3179
- Supplier named in award
- OCTOPUS ENERGY LIMITED
- Award value
- £350,262
- Contract period
- 1 October 2022 – 30 September 2025
- Published
- 16 May 2022
- Procedure
- Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
- Main CPV
- 65310000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-ebfef7db-3b5c-42a7-9bd9-70aa3abc3179-2022-05-16T09:09:21+01:00
Framework Agreement for the Provision of Services in connection with the Energy for Londoners Services Framework
Transport for London · ocds-b5fd17-0b73dbf3-abff-4864-a31f-9401360e5370
- Supplier named in award
- Octopus Energy Limited
- Award value
- £992,000,000
- Contract period
- 13 August 2019 – 12 August 2023
- Published
- 31 January 2020
- Procedure
- Competitive dialogue (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 09000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-0b73dbf3-abff-4864-a31f-9401360e5370-2020-01-31T16:25:18Z
Smart Meter Load Control Device Trial
Business Energy and Industrial Strategy · ocds-b5fd17-63aa5bff-46c2-411b-9ba7-26f085db5ac7
- Supplier named in award
- Octopus Energy Ltd
- Award value
- £50,000
- Contract period
- 11 January 2019 – 15 March 2019
- Published
- 8 March 2019
- Procedure
- Other - Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI)
- Main CPV
- 09300000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-63aa5bff-46c2-411b-9ba7-26f085db5ac7-2019-03-08T15:04:25Z
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
08 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Octopus Energy Group Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- United Kingdom
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Private Limited Company
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 09718624
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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09 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
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10 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
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11 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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12 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
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13 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
14 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Trade of gas through mains
15 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
1 procurement process linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
16 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Company name
Previous name: MERCURY ENERGY SUPPLY LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
17 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
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