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Electricity prices Great Britain, 23 July 2026

23 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
29.0p/kWh
+9% vs. yesterday · +18% vs. 7-day average
Lowest
23.0p/kWh
Highest
44.4p/kWh
Hours with negative prices
0

Cheapest hours

Best time to run

Washing machine (2 h)
01:00–03:00, average 23.2p/kWh
Dishwasher (3 h)
01:00–04:00, average 23.2p/kWh
Electric car (4 h)
01:00–05:00, average 23.4p/kWh

Hourly prices

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Cheapest hours highlighted. Times in local time.
Show the data as a table
HourPrice
024.1p/kWh
123.0p/kWh
223.4p/kWh
323.2p/kWh
423.9p/kWh
526.8p/kWh
629.2p/kWh
731.2p/kWh
829.5p/kWh
929.2p/kWh
1026.5p/kWh
1125.3p/kWh
1225.2p/kWh
1324.4p/kWh
1423.9p/kWh
1523.6p/kWh
1636.8p/kWh
1739.4p/kWh
1844.4p/kWh
1933.8p/kWh
2034.3p/kWh
2134.4p/kWh
2231.1p/kWh
2329.2p/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
22 Jul26.6p/kWh21.5p/kWh41.9p/kWh
21 Jul25.7p/kWh20.4p/kWh39.8p/kWh
20 Jul27.3p/kWh21.5p/kWh43.7p/kWh
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