We’re here today at the opening of Octopus’ fantastic new office building in Friargate next to the railway station. Tell me Greg it’s fantastic day today. Tell me why did you choose Coventry?
Well you know we’ve been in the West Midlands for a while. We’ve got an office in Warwick and so we decided we really want to grow here in the Midlands and looking for the perfect site you know. Look we’ve got
This vibrant team, a lot of them want to be able to get to work by public transport, even walk to work and they want to have the amenities of a city centre within walking distance of their office.
Friargate is incredible. I mean from my desk in London to this office it’s basically an hour right. because it’s so close to the station and so I think the ability to give both the most local
People the ability to walk and cycle and get the train to work and then to act as a hub for what we do across the country it’s a great location. And you’re the biggest supplier of electricity in
The UK okay so you are a fantastic business and of course you’re really involved in renewables as well. Really important in terms of making sure that we move away from fossil fuels.
Yeah, that’s right. I mean look today we’ve got plans for a couple of hundred new jobs here but I think we intend to build up to 600, really to bring those green technologies to people. So this is going to be a
Real hub for green jobs, tech jobs and probably more important than anything else jobs that look after our customers which are what enables us to have grown this success. Greg thank you very much. It’s really great to see you here today, a fantastic business. It’s buzzing in here today. It’s great
To see people at work, populating this fantastic office space, Octopus Energy here in Coventry.