Octopus’s big bet on Australian renewables, and especially wind, would be a boost to a sector that has plateaued in recent years, threatening an ambitious government goal to more than double green energy generation to 82% of the total by 2030. Octopus has form in disrupting markets — becoming the UK’s biggest energy retailer just nine years after starting, partly by tapping outside capital, something it also intends to do in Australia.







