Octopus Free Lunch plan
3 hours of free energy every day*, from 11am–2pm.
If you’re regularly at home during the day, Octopus Free Lunch is a no-brainer. Shift your power-hungry chores, laundry, cooking, or EV charging, into our 3-hour daily window and pay nothing for the electricity you use*.
Like all our Time of Use (ToU) plans, how much you save on your bill, is about being clever with your power and making the most of free or lower off-peak rates, while avoiding the more pricey peaks.
Our Free Lunch plan best suits customers who are able to actively shift their usage into these free hours.
We’re prioritising areas where network pricing enables this plan. Currently we can offer this plan in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Tasman. We'd love to roll this out nationwide, so if you're outside these areas, let us know you're interested here, we’ll be talking with your network company to see if we can make something work.
*You can view the Octopus Free Lunch terms and conditions here. Fair use limit applies.
The above image is a visual representation of time-of-use pricing for Octopus Free Lunch only.
Why choose Octopus Free Lunch?
Free power hours
Make the most of paying nothing for the electricity you use between 11am- 2pm.
Fast, responsive Energy Specialists
Our friendly team of Energy Specialists are here to help with personalised advice and reliable support when you need it... and we answer the phone in under a minute.
No Lock-In Contracts
Life is full of changes, so why tie yourself down? With Octopus Free Lunch, you can leave anytime without penalty.
Smart Energy Tools
Use our dynamic web and mobile app to monitor your energy usage, manage bills, and form insights that help you save.
To get started
Get Rates for your property: Simply enter your address and choose a plan.
Sign Up in Minutes: Signing up to Octopus Free Lunch is quick and hassle-free.
Access the Octopus App: Once you’re signed up, you’ll have access to our innovative mobile app and dashboard to track your energy usage and explore ways to save.
Enjoy Flexible Freedom: Stay with us as long as you like, or change plans with us once per year if your needs change.
FAQs
To be eligible, you must be a residential user, and have a smart meter that communicates your data to us. This plan best suits households with single-phase connections. If you have a three-phase connection you are still eligible for this plan but may reach the fair use limit easily.
You get free electricity usage every day between 11 am and 2 pm.
While the usage should be for ordinary residential purposes, usage exceeding 200kWh per week during the free period is considered excessive. We may contact you to discuss your usage, and if it continues, we reserve the right to move you to a different plan.
We’re prioritising areas where network pricing enables this plan. Currently we can offer this plan in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Tasman. You can register your interest for other areas via this link.
We provide you a breakdown of your free hours, peak, off-peak and night usage on your bill. This breakdown will give an idea of your usage throughout the day for you to decide whether you could get value from this plan. You would likely still need to shift usage to free hours to benefit the most out of this plan.
Yes, you can switch plans once over a 12 month period if the plan isn't working for you.
Although there’s nothing stopping you from signing up to this product, we would not recommend it. Unless you only have a small amount of solar and use a lot of electricity in the middle of the day, you already get “free” electricity in the middle of the day. Our Flexi and Peaker plans offer better buy back rates and give you half price electricity at night.
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