OVO calls for action to electrify Britain’s homes as it launches Climate Transition Plan

London, 25 June 2025: OVO is today calling for more collaboration to electrify Britain’s homes, calling home heating the ‘next front line in the climate fight.’

Speaking at London Climate Action Week at OVO’s Destination Electric event, hosted by BAFTA nominated journalist, presenter and film-maker Keme Nzerem, OVO will unveil its first-ever Climate Transition Plan, “Mind the Green Gap” setting out its vision to cut emissions to net zero by 2035.

The plan pulls no punches: without rapid government reform and industry-wide collaboration, progress on net zero is at risk. OVO argues that home heating, currently dominated by gas boilers, is the “hardest, most critical, and most overlooked piece of the puzzle.”

“Without making clean heat affordable, and a green electricity grid to support it, we will fail on net zero. That’s why we’re bringing everyone here today,” said Owen Anderson, Head of Sustainability at OVO. “We need urgent action to make electric heating cheaper and accessible for every household.”

OVO’s Climate Transition Plan: Key Measures

OVO’s plan sets out how it will decarbonise both its own operations and help millions of customers slash their emissions. It includes:

• Fixing broken energy pricing: rebalancing policy costs that currently make electricity unfairly expensive compared to gas.
• Building a positive landscape to electrify home heating: shifting homes from gas to electric heat, supported by affordable finance and government incentives.
• Reforming the broken REGO system: ending greenwashing on so-called ‘100% renewable tariffs’ and channelling investment into new renewable capacity.
• A gas boiler backstop: reinstating a firm deadline to phase out sales of new gas boilers.
• Building a smarter, more flexible grid: scaling up smart meters and demand flexibility to better match green supply and customer demand.
  

Backing consumers to make the switch

Alongside the policy asks, OVO is investing in new ways to help customers move to cleaner, cheaper technologies, including:

• Solar and heat pump installs: helping customers generate their own clean power, and warm their homes with green electricity.

• Bank a solar panel or free miles for your future EV:  allowing long-term customers to bank solar panels or EV miles.

• Smart EV charging: using Kaluza tech to charge cars when the grid is greenest and cheapest.

• Power Move: rewarding customers for shifting usage to when renewables are abundant.

A critical 3-year window

The plan focuses on the next three years as a critical window for action. OVO will update its plan every three years, aligned with the UK’s Transition Plan Taskforce and ISSB frameworks, to ensure real-world progress remains on track.

Notes to Editors:

• For more information please contact: media@ovo.com 
• Please find a link to the Climate Transition Plan here
• Destination Electric runs as part of London Climate Action Week 2025.

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About OVO

In 2009, OVO was born to make energy better for people and the planet. Today, OVO is trusted by around four million customers with their home energy, EV charging, green tech upgrades, and more. 

OVO is getting the UK ready for a greener, fairer future – supporting new renewable power projects in communities across the country. Not only is OVO bringing low carbon tech into homes, it’s finding smart ways to cut costs for customers – making heat pumps, solar panels, and electric cars more accessible. Behind all this work is Plan Zero: the bold, science-backed sustainability strategy, which sets out how OVO will become a true net zero business by 2035. 

This progress can only happen with a culture fit for the future. OVO’s multiple awards include the Best Place to Work for Women in The Sunday Times’ Best Places to Work 2023, which also saw the company coming in the Top 10 for Very Big Organisation. 

OVO also won Company of the Decade at the BusinessGreen Leaders’ Awards 2020. 

OVO key facts

• UK Customers: four million 

• People: 4,500 colleagues with sites in London, Bristol and Glasgow. 

• Customer service

• • • Over 140,000 5* reviews on Trustpilot for energy supply.
    • £140m support offered to customers in need since 2022.

• Rewarding customers

• • Beyond: More than 750,000 customers have signed up to OVO Beyond
    • Over 10 Million EV miles banked
    • 30K solar panels banked
    • 24K Months of heat banked
  • Charge Anytime over: £18.3 million saved to date by customers.
  • Solar and heat pumps: Over 1,000 heat pumps installed and over 500 solar systems installed in UK homes.
  • World leading trials: 320+ OVO customer trialists on the world’s first and largest domestic vehicle-to-grid trial, run by us. 
  • Rewarding trials: Over £2 million in credit through Power Move, for using energy at greener times – saving over 600 tonnes of carbon.

Expert advice: Over 10,000 home visits completed by OVO’s Energy Experts, giving customers one-to-one guidance on making their home more efficient.