Bring cheaper wind power to your community

As a Fan Club member, you could get a discount on your electricity unit rate whenever your local Fan is generating. The size of the discount depends on how much power the turbine is producing at the time you use electricity.

We match your half-hourly electricity use with the turbine’s half-hourly power output. If the turbine is generating above its first threshold, you get the lower discount for that half hour. If it’s generating above the higher threshold, the higher discount applies instead. If the turbine isn’t generating, no discount is applied for that period.

You can track your turbine’s power output in your personal dashboard and choose to shift your usage to times when the discount is predicted to be at its highest.

All Fan Club discounts are added as a credit to your energy account each month.

To join one of our active Fan Clubs, you need to live in an eligible postcode, have a working smart meter, and be an Octopus Energy customer on a standard tariff. We can’t offer Fan Club discounts to customers on a smart tariff at this time.

If you live in an eligible post code, you can sign up to Fan Club to check your eligibility. If eligible, we’ll email you to let you know what happens next. 

If you do not live in an eligible post code, you can still sign up to Fan Club to show your support for local renewables and to request a Fan Club in your community. You’ll then be the first to know if we launch a Fan Club near you.

Joining the Fan Club waitlist demonstrates your support for local renewables and shows us that you want a Fan Club in your community. 

We use Fan Club submissions to decide where to develop next. After all, we want to build more renewables where they’re wanted.

We’ll be in touch with you if we’re holding any community events locally or if we’re looking to develop a turbine in your community. You’ll also be the first to hear if we launch a Fan Club near you.

Our Fan Clubs have a member capacity limit based on the amount of electricity the Fan Club turbine can generate. Once that limit is reached, the Fan Club will close to new members.

We would love to have as many people benefit from Fan Club as possible, which is why we’re working to build more turbines across the UK, through Plots for Kilowatts.

Each Fan Club turbine is a different size and model, and they sit in places with different wind conditions. Because of this, the amount of power they need to produce before a discount applies can vary from site to site.

We set generation thresholds for each turbine so that the experience feels as fair as possible for all members. Even though the thresholds differ, they’re designed to give customers across different Fan Club areas a similar opportunity to reach their discount levels.

As Fan Club grows, future turbines may also use different discount levels and thresholds based on how they perform in real conditions.

If your Fan isn’t spinning, for any reason, your usual unit rates apply.

Turbines typically start turning in light winds, from around 3 m/s (or about 6 mph — the speed of a gentle jog). Generally, you’ll find they’re turning more often than not over the course of a year.

However, your Fan can experience downtime due to planned or unplanned maintenance, or extreme weather.

We never like to see a turbine standing still, and we’ll always work to get it running again as soon as it’s safe to do so.

We work closely with the communities our Fans are turning in, mainly through educating local school children on renewable energy, running fun competitions, delivering local electricity discounts.

If you are interested in hearing more about what we get up to, you can take a look at our community blogs.