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Electricity prices Great Britain, 10 October 2026

10 October 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
8.6p/kWh
−22% vs. yesterday · −68% vs. 7-day average
Lowest
-3.6p/kWh
Highest
43.4p/kWh
Hours with negative prices
8

Cheapest hours

Best time to run

Washing machine (2 h)
11:00–13:00, average -3.2p/kWh
Dishwasher (3 h)
11:00–14:00, average -3.3p/kWh
Electric car (4 h)
11:00–15:00, average -3.0p/kWh

Hourly prices

036912151821
Cheapest hours highlighted. Times in local time.
Show the data as a table
HourPrice
01.0p/kWh
1-0.2p/kWh
20.6p/kWh
3-0.1p/kWh
40.1p/kWh
50.1p/kWh
61.1p/kWh
74.1p/kWh
83.9p/kWh
90.6p/kWh
10-2.3p/kWh
11-3.6p/kWh
12-2.9p/kWh
13-3.3p/kWh
14-2.3p/kWh
15-1.5p/kWh
1618.4p/kWh
1737.1p/kWh
1843.4p/kWh
1927.3p/kWh
2023.0p/kWh
2121.8p/kWh
2220.0p/kWh
2321.0p/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
9 Oct11.0p/kWh2.0p/kWh27.7p/kWh
8 Oct26.2p/kWh15.3p/kWh51.8p/kWh
7 Oct32.0p/kWh19.7p/kWh50.9p/kWh
6 Oct35.1p/kWh25.1p/kWh69.9p/kWh
5 Oct27.4p/kWh11.3p/kWh51.1p/kWh
4 Oct27.9p/kWh6.7p/kWh51.4p/kWh
3 Oct32.2p/kWh24.3p/kWh50.4p/kWh
2 Oct31.9p/kWh23.4p/kWh48.4p/kWh
1 Oct32.3p/kWh25.5p/kWh52.3p/kWh
30 Sept24.8p/kWh9.1p/kWh49.4p/kWh
29 Sept29.9p/kWh13.7p/kWh53.5p/kWh
28 Sept37.5p/kWh26.0p/kWh71.3p/kWh
27 Sept20.7p/kWh-2.3p/kWh48.0p/kWh
26 Sept26.9p/kWh2.3p/kWh50.3p/kWh

Source: Octopus Energy API