Electricity prices Great Britain, 15 July 2026

Name: Electricity price Great Britain on 15 July 2026
Creator: Octopus Energy

15 July 2026 · Consumer price including taxes and charges.

Great Britain has no single public hourly price for households. We show Octopus Agile half-hourly prices (one supplier's dynamic tariff, inc. VAT), averaged over its 14 regions. The Ofgem price cap below applies to standard tariffs.

Average

25.6p/kWh

+7% vs. yesterday · +5% vs. 7-day average

Lowest

16.8p/kWh

Highest

41.9p/kWh

Hours with negative prices

Cheapest hours

11:00 · 18.1p/kWh
12:00 · 17.1p/kWh
14:00 · 16.8p/kWh

Best time to run

Washing machine (2 h)

13:00–15:00, average 17.5p/kWh

Dishwasher (3 h)

12:00–15:00, average 17.4p/kWh

Electric car (4 h)

11:00–15:00, average 17.6p/kWh

Hourly prices

0.0p20.0p40.0p60.0p

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Cheapest hours highlighted. Times in local time.

Show the data as a table

Hour	Price
0	25.4p/kWh
1	23.7p/kWh
2	20.4p/kWh
3	21.5p/kWh
4	23.9p/kWh
5	26.7p/kWh
6	27.6p/kWh
7	27.1p/kWh
8	22.6p/kWh
9	21.7p/kWh
10	19.4p/kWh
11	18.1p/kWh
12	17.1p/kWh
13	18.2p/kWh
14	16.8p/kWh
15	18.5p/kWh
16	33.4p/kWh
17	37.2p/kWh
18	41.9p/kWh
19	32.2p/kWh
20	32.8p/kWh
21	32.0p/kWh
22	28.9p/kWh
23	27.4p/kWh

The average household tariff in the United Kingdom is 33.7p/kWh (all taxes and fixed charges included, Oct–Dec 2026).

Last 7 days, hour by hour

10 Jul11 Jul12 Jul13 Jul14 Jul15 Jul00:0003:0006:0009:0012:0015:0018:0021:00

Cheapest hours highlighted. Times in local time.

Previous days

Date	Average	Lowest	Highest
14 Jul	23.9p/kWh	16.6p/kWh	39.8p/kWh
13 Jul	22.6p/kWh	13.7p/kWh	37.4p/kWh
12 Jul	23.5p/kWh	22.7p/kWh	24.1p/kWh
11 Jul	23.7p/kWh	21.4p/kWh	25.2p/kWh
10 Jul	27.8p/kWh	24.7p/kWh	30.0p/kWh

Source: Octopus Energy API