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Electricity prices Great Britain, 7 August 2026

7 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
23.0p/kWh
+4% vs. yesterday · −5% vs. 7-day average
Lowest
13.5p/kWh
Highest
39.3p/kWh
Hours with negative prices
0

Cheapest hours

Best time to run

Washing machine (2 h)
14:00–16:00, average 13.9p/kWh
Dishwasher (3 h)
13:00–16:00, average 14.0p/kWh
Electric car (4 h)
12:00–16:00, average 14.1p/kWh

Hourly prices

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Cheapest hours highlighted. Times in local time.
Show the data as a table
HourPrice
024.2p/kWh
122.1p/kWh
221.2p/kWh
321.2p/kWh
422.1p/kWh
524.6p/kWh
625.5p/kWh
724.1p/kWh
820.3p/kWh
916.9p/kWh
1015.5p/kWh
1114.5p/kWh
1214.4p/kWh
1314.0p/kWh
1414.4p/kWh
1513.5p/kWh
1630.7p/kWh
1735.7p/kWh
1839.3p/kWh
1928.8p/kWh
2028.2p/kWh
2128.7p/kWh
2227.0p/kWh
2325.1p/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
6 Aug22.2p/kWh11.6p/kWh38.5p/kWh
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

Source: Octopus Energy API