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Electricity prices Great Britain, 13 October 2026

13 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
24.5p/kWh
−24% vs. yesterday · −3% vs. 7-day average
Lowest
12.9p/kWh
Highest
46.9p/kWh
Hours with negative prices
0

Cheapest hours

Best time to run

Washing machine (2 h)
13:00–15:00, average 13.4p/kWh
Dishwasher (3 h)
12:00–15:00, average 13.8p/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
019.1p/kWh
120.2p/kWh
219.7p/kWh
318.6p/kWh
417.6p/kWh
516.7p/kWh
623.9p/kWh
728.7p/kWh
829.0p/kWh
926.0p/kWh
1020.3p/kWh
1115.0p/kWh
1214.7p/kWh
1313.9p/kWh
1412.9p/kWh
1514.8p/kWh
1632.5p/kWh
1743.4p/kWh
1846.9p/kWh
1934.6p/kWh
2031.9p/kWh
2130.3p/kWh
2226.5p/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
12 Oct32.2p/kWh17.4p/kWh51.8p/kWh
11 Oct31.2p/kWh18.0p/kWh54.7p/kWh
10 Oct8.6p/kWh-3.6p/kWh43.4p/kWh
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

Source: Octopus Energy API