On the day households found out their energy bills would fall in April, the Chancellor chose to go to the headquarters of the company that has quietly become the UK's biggest domestic energy supplier, Octopus. Rachel Reeves was shown the screens displaying the real-time management of energy demand for electric vehicles, as well as the cheaper prices for the communities that had volunteered to host clean energy infrastructure such as wind farms. This was an attempt to not just illuminate the notable cut to energy bills announced under the Ofgem price cap, but also to start to float a broader story about the UK economy, after some rosier numbers in recent days. I asked a couple of times, if she was seeing "green shoots" in the economy. Eventually she said that we were "beginning to see the economy turning a corner". "I think this will be the year that people start to feel the change in their pockets," Reeves said. Is that right, or could that prove a hostage to fortune?…