Octopus Energy has announced that the Mercury Trust Mark has certified its first grid-ready chargers, launching a new consumer trust mark designed to accelerate the transition to the flexible home grid.
What is the Mercury Trust Mark?
Acting like the 'Bluetooth' of the clean tech world, the Mercury mark gives households a simple, trusted signal that their home energy devices connect with the grid and work reliably with the systems around it. The Zaptec Go 2, Easee One, and Octopus Charge are the first devices to carry the official Mercury certification.
These manufacturers have over a million devices installed across Europe, bringing smart energy certification “straight from the drawing board to real homes and driveways,” Octopus stated in a press release.
How Mercury Differs from Existing Protocols
While existing EV charging protocols like OCPP focus on connecting devices, Mercury steps in to solve the missing piece: it certifies how those devices actually behave once they are plugged in. The initial spotlight is on EV charging, but Mercury is already expanding its stamp of approval across other major household technologies, including home batteries, vehicles, and heating and cooling systems.
Industry Leaders Comment
Alex Schoch, Group Director of Flexibility & Electrification at Octopus Energy Group, said: “An EV charger is not just a plug on the wall. Done right, it is the vital link between a customer’s car, their home, and a cleaner, cheaper grid. Mercury certification helps make that link easier to trust, so customers can reap the full financial rewards of smart charging without needing a degree in energy engineering to understand what is happening behind the scenes.”
Devrim Celal, Co-Chair of the Mercury Consortium, added: “Consumers shouldn't have to become grid flexibility experts to know whether the tech they buy is future-proof. The Mercury mark makes that trust beautifully simple. These first certified chargers prove that smart energy devices can be tested once, recognised instantly by the market, and used to unlock cheaper, cleaner energy for households.”
