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Electricity prices Great Britain, 2 September 2026

2 September 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
32.2p/kWh
+16% vs. yesterday · +14% vs. 7-day average
Lowest
26.2p/kWh
Highest
51.5p/kWh
Hours with negative prices
0

Cheapest hours

Best time to run

Washing machine (2 h)
02:00–04:00, average 26.3p/kWh
Dishwasher (3 h)
01:00–04:00, average 26.3p/kWh
Electric car (4 h)
00:00–04:00, average 26.5p/kWh

Hourly prices

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Cheapest hours highlighted. Times in local time.
Show the data as a table
HourPrice
026.9p/kWh
126.5p/kWh
226.3p/kWh
326.2p/kWh
427.9p/kWh
531.7p/kWh
633.8p/kWh
736.0p/kWh
832.3p/kWh
932.1p/kWh
1030.7p/kWh
1129.8p/kWh
1227.4p/kWh
1327.2p/kWh
1426.7p/kWh
1526.4p/kWh
1642.5p/kWh
1747.0p/kWh
1851.5p/kWh
1938.2p/kWh
2036.2p/kWh
2132.2p/kWh
2227.2p/kWh
2330.5p/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
1 Sept27.7p/kWh10.8p/kWh50.1p/kWh
31 Aug22.0p/kWh-1.2p/kWh45.3p/kWh
30 Aug29.1p/kWh23.3p/kWh45.4p/kWh
29 Aug28.7p/kWh15.9p/kWh47.9p/kWh
28 Aug29.4p/kWh21.2p/kWh44.3p/kWh
27 Aug30.0p/kWh23.1p/kWh47.6p/kWh
26 Aug30.1p/kWh24.0p/kWh49.9p/kWh
25 Aug29.5p/kWh19.8p/kWh50.0p/kWh
24 Aug30.5p/kWh24.5p/kWh48.4p/kWh
23 Aug28.6p/kWh20.9p/kWh46.8p/kWh
22 Aug25.5p/kWh14.9p/kWh43.1p/kWh
21 Aug30.3p/kWh24.3p/kWh45.3p/kWh
20 Aug28.9p/kWh23.4p/kWh43.7p/kWh
19 Aug30.8p/kWh23.9p/kWh48.3p/kWh

Source: Octopus Energy API