Business Energy Index · Updated weekly
What UK businesses pay for electricity, and what they should
The all-in rate you pay, standing charge included. The number that suppliers keep out of the headline.
Refreshed · next update Friday 28 August
UK average
27.02p/kWh
Effective all-in rate, 14 regions
Cheapest advertised
£20,542/yr
20.54p/kWh all-in
Highest advertised
£34,363/yr
34.36p/kWh all-in
Same-power gap
£13,821/yr
For identical power, same week
The national average, week by week
Average effective all-in rate across all 14 DNO regions, every week since the index began.
The spread, region by region
The same load is priced differently depending on where you are, and on who quotes you. This is the range between the cheapest buyable tariff and the highest.
National (all regions)
20.54p/kWh Cheapest
34.36p/kWh Highest
14 regions
£13,821/yr between cheapest and highest
Cheapest and highest effective rate anywhere in Great Britain this week, across the five cheapest buyable tariffs in each of the 14 DNO regions.
The reveal is the review
The index shows the gap. The review names it.
The index publishes aggregates only. No supplier is named here. The exact suppliers and tariffs behind these figures, matched to your own meter data, are named in the free energy review.
Source: Tariff Tribe
- Advertised market rates, not settled invoice prices.
- All annual costs at a 100,000 kWh/yr reference load.
- Small and mid-sized commercial (TCR band 4), not representative of large industrial sites.