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Electricity prices Great Britain, 20 July 2026

20 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
27.3p/kWh
+47% vs. yesterday · +16% vs. 7-day average
Lowest
21.5p/kWh
Highest
43.7p/kWh
Hours with negative prices
0

Cheapest hours

Best time to run

Washing machine (2 h)
13:00–15:00, average 21.8p/kWh
Dishwasher (3 h)
12:00–15:00, average 22.2p/kWh
Electric car (4 h)
11:00–15:00, average 22.1p/kWh

Hourly prices

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Cheapest hours highlighted. Times in local time.
Show the data as a table
HourPrice
025.1p/kWh
124.0p/kWh
222.9p/kWh
322.5p/kWh
423.1p/kWh
523.6p/kWh
625.9p/kWh
727.3p/kWh
826.9p/kWh
925.8p/kWh
1023.0p/kWh
1121.7p/kWh
1223.2p/kWh
1322.1p/kWh
1421.5p/kWh
1523.6p/kWh
1636.8p/kWh
1741.6p/kWh
1843.7p/kWh
1931.2p/kWh
2031.5p/kWh
2130.9p/kWh
2229.6p/kWh
2326.6p/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

Cheapest hours highlighted. Times in local time.

Previous days

DateAverageLowestHighest
19 Jul18.6p/kWh8.9p/kWh37.3p/kWh
18 Jul19.6p/kWh4.0p/kWh34.8p/kWh
17 Jul25.7p/kWh18.8p/kWh39.0p/kWh
16 Jul28.4p/kWh18.0p/kWh51.0p/kWh
15 Jul25.6p/kWh16.8p/kWh41.9p/kWh
14 Jul23.9p/kWh16.6p/kWh39.8p/kWh
13 Jul22.6p/kWh13.7p/kWh37.4p/kWh
12 Jul23.5p/kWh22.7p/kWh24.1p/kWh
11 Jul23.7p/kWh21.4p/kWh25.2p/kWh
10 Jul27.8p/kWh24.7p/kWh30.0p/kWh

Source: Octopus Energy API