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Electricity prices Great Britain, 6 August 2026

6 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
22.2p/kWh
+35% vs. yesterday · −10% vs. 7-day average
Lowest
11.6p/kWh
Highest
38.5p/kWh
Hours with negative prices
0

Cheapest hours

Best time to run

Washing machine (2 h)
09:00–11:00, average 12.1p/kWh
Dishwasher (3 h)
09:00–12:00, average 12.3p/kWh
Electric car (4 h)
09:00–13:00, average 12.8p/kWh

Hourly prices

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Cheapest hours highlighted. Times in local time.
Show the data as a table
HourPrice
020.2p/kWh
119.1p/kWh
218.4p/kWh
317.4p/kWh
418.5p/kWh
519.3p/kWh
622.3p/kWh
722.0p/kWh
815.0p/kWh
912.5p/kWh
1011.6p/kWh
1112.8p/kWh
1214.4p/kWh
1316.9p/kWh
1417.3p/kWh
1518.3p/kWh
1634.8p/kWh
1736.5p/kWh
1838.5p/kWh
1930.7p/kWh
2030.7p/kWh
2130.2p/kWh
2228.9p/kWh
2325.6p/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
5 Aug16.5p/kWh-4.1p/kWh35.6p/kWh
4 Aug26.4p/kWh20.8p/kWh41.1p/kWh
3 Aug27.1p/kWh19.6p/kWh47.0p/kWh
2 Aug26.9p/kWh21.5p/kWh43.4p/kWh
1 Aug22.9p/kWh6.5p/kWh40.2p/kWh
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

Source: Octopus Energy API