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Electricity prices Great Britain, 1 August 2026

1 August 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
22.9p/kWh
−16% vs. yesterday · +0% vs. 7-day average
Lowest
6.5p/kWh
Highest
40.2p/kWh
Hours with negative prices
0

Cheapest hours

Best time to run

Washing machine (2 h)
12:00–14:00, average 7.1p/kWh
Dishwasher (3 h)
13:00–16:00, average 7.0p/kWh
Electric car (4 h)
12:00–16:00, average 7.2p/kWh

Hourly prices

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Cheapest hours highlighted. Times in local time.
Show the data as a table
HourPrice
027.1p/kWh
125.5p/kWh
225.6p/kWh
324.8p/kWh
425.6p/kWh
525.4p/kWh
626.3p/kWh
723.4p/kWh
820.1p/kWh
917.1p/kWh
1012.0p/kWh
119.4p/kWh
127.5p/kWh
136.7p/kWh
147.9p/kWh
156.5p/kWh
1631.4p/kWh
1736.0p/kWh
1840.2p/kWh
1932.1p/kWh
2031.7p/kWh
2130.7p/kWh
2228.4p/kWh
2329.1p/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
31 Jul27.2p/kWh20.0p/kWh41.1p/kWh
30 Jul25.8p/kWh14.3p/kWh42.7p/kWh
29 Jul26.9p/kWh19.6p/kWh48.6p/kWh
28 Jul25.3p/kWh13.6p/kWh44.6p/kWh
27 Jul25.1p/kWh15.0p/kWh41.3p/kWh
26 Jul15.2p/kWh-5.0p/kWh36.7p/kWh
25 Jul14.9p/kWh-6.3p/kWh39.8p/kWh
24 Jul25.1p/kWh11.7p/kWh42.9p/kWh
23 Jul29.0p/kWh23.0p/kWh44.4p/kWh
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

Source: Octopus Energy API