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Octopus Vitality sparks £10bn demerger of tech arm Kraken

By Editorial Board Published July 6, 2025 6 Min Read
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Octopus Vitality sparks £10bn demerger of tech arm Kraken

Octopus Vitality Group, Britain’s largest residential fuel and electrical energy provider, is plotting a £10bn demerger of its expertise arm that will reinforce its standing as one of many nation’s Most worthy personal corporations.

The demerger, which might be anticipated to happen within the subsequent 12 months, would see Octopus Vitality’s current traders given shares within the newly impartial Kraken enterprise.

A minority stake in Kraken of as much as 20% is anticipated to be bought to exterior shareholders so as to assist validate the expertise platform’s valuation, in accordance with insiders.

One banking supply stated that Kraken may very well be valued at as a lot as $14bn (£10.25bn) in a forthcoming demerger.

Citi, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley are among the many funding banks invited to pitch for the demerger mandate in latest weeks.

A deal will increase Octopus Vitality chief government Greg Jackson’s paper fortune, and underline his success at constructing a globally vital British-based firm during the last decade.

Octopus Vitality now has 7.5 million retail prospects in Britain, following its 2022 rescue of the collapsed power provider Bulb, and the next acquisition of Shell’s dwelling power enterprise.

In January, it introduced that it had turn into the nation’s largest provider – surpassing Centrica-owned British Fuel – with a 24% market share.

It additionally has an additional 2.5 million prospects exterior the UK.

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Kraken is an working system licensed to different power suppliers, water corporations and telecoms suppliers. Pic: Octopus

Sources stated a £10bn valuation of Kraken would now suggest that the entire group, together with the retail provide enterprise, was price within the area of £15bn or extra.

That will be double its valuation of simply over a yr in the past, when the corporate introduced that it had secured new backing from funds Impress Local weather Options and Lightrock.

Shortly earlier than that, former US vice chairman Al Gore’s agency, Technology Funding Administration, and the Canada Pension Plan Funding Board elevated their stakes in Octopus Vitality in a transaction valuing the corporate at $9bn (£7.2bn).

Kraken is an working system which is licensed to different power suppliers, water corporations and telecoms suppliers.

It connects all components of the power system, together with buyer billing and the versatile administration of renewable era and power gadgets corresponding to warmth pumps and electrical car batteries.

The enterprise additionally unlocks good grids which allow individuals to make use of extra renewable power when there’s an ample provide of it.

Within the UK, its platform is licensed to Octopus Vitality’s rivals EON and EDF Vitality, in addition to the water firm Severn Trent and broadband supplier Cuckoo.

Abroad, Kraken serves Origin Vitality in Australia, Japan’s Tokyo Fuel and Plentitude in international locations together with France and Greece.

Its largest coup got here lately, when it struck a take care of Nationwide Grid within the US to serve 6.5m prospects in New York and Massachusetts.

Sources stated different main licensing agreements within the US have been anticipated to be struck within the coming months.

Kraken, which is chaired by Gavin Patterson, the previous BT Group chief government, is now contracted to greater than 70 million buyer accounts globally – placing it simply on observe to hit a goal of 100 million by 2027.

Earlier this yr, Mr Jackson stated that concentrate on now risked being seen as “embarrassingly unambitious”.

Final July, Kraken recruited Amir Orad, a former boss of NICE Actimize, a US-listed supplier of enterprise software program to international banks and Fortune 500 corporations, as its first chief government.

A demerger of Kraken will set off hypothesis about an eventual public market itemizing of the enterprise.

Its progress within the US, and the relative public market valuations of expertise corporations in New York and London, might put the UK at a drawback when Kraken ultimately considers the place to record.

One key benefit of demerging Kraken from the remainder of Octopus Vitality Group could be to take away the notion of a battle of curiosity amongst potential prospects of the expertise platform.

A supply stated the unified company possession of each companies had acted as a deterrent to some power suppliers.

Kraken has additionally diversified past the power sector, and earlier this yr joined a consortium which was exploring a takeover bid for stricken Thames Water.

This weekend, Octopus Vitality declined to remark.

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