Independent Agile Octopus energy price tracker v1

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Energy was last better‑than‑free: yesterday Next

On the Agile Octopus tariff, customers get paid to use electricity when there’s too much in the grid.

That’s cheaper than Octopus Energy paying to store it.

The price changes every half-hour.

How free electricity works

Region

27 Sep to 26 Oct 2026 · daily price range and average

London

28 Sep 5 Oct 12 Oct 19 Oct 26 Oct

VAT cut to 0% · 1 Oct 2026VAT on home electricity is 0% from this date until 31 Mar 2027. It was 5%, not the usual 20%, so this saves only about 1.3p on a typical price, which normal day-to-day changes can hide.

30‑day average, Agile vs other tariffs

2%

cheaper than Flexible Octopus

25.9p vs 26.6p

7%

cheaper than Octopus Tracker

25.9p vs 27.7p

0%

cheaper than Octopus Go

25.9p vs 26.0p

11%

dearer than Cosy Octopus

25.9p vs 23.4p

Stats for 27 Sep to 26 Oct 2026

−7.3p

Cheapest in the last 30 days was on 25 Oct

32.5 hours

Negative prices avg 8h per neg. day

13% of days

4 of 30 days had negative prices

15.5 hours

Longest negative period was on 25 Oct

25.9p

Average price over last 30 days

Show as a table
DateMinAverageMax
27 Sep 2026−2.6p19.2p45.5p
28 Sep 202624.0p35.0p67.1p
29 Sep 202611.3p27.8p50.5p
30 Sep 20268.2p23.1p47.3p
VAT cut to 0%. VAT on home electricity is 0% from this date until 31 Mar 2027. It was 5%, not the usual 20%, so this saves only about 1.3p on a typical price, which normal day-to-day changes can hide.
1 Oct 202622.8p30.1p50.1p
2 Oct 202621.4p29.7p45.8p
3 Oct 202621.9p30.0p47.9p
4 Oct 20265.9p26.0p48.6p
5 Oct 202610.3p25.5p49.5p
6 Oct 202623.3p32.7p66.8p
7 Oct 202616.4p29.8p48.2p
8 Oct 202610.8p24.4p49.3p
9 Oct 20261.7p10.2p27.9p
10 Oct 2026−3.6p7.9p43.5p
11 Oct 202615.4p29.1p51.5p
12 Oct 202613.6p30.0p48.7p
13 Oct 202611.5p22.8p45.2p
14 Oct 202612.9p27.8p46.7p
15 Oct 202619.1p29.9p56.0p
16 Oct 202624.7p34.2p53.9p
17 Oct 202621.7p30.0p50.1p
18 Oct 202621.1p30.6p52.3p
19 Oct 202627.2p35.5p55.0p
20 Oct 202624.4p33.0p50.6p
21 Oct 202615.9p31.1p49.8p
22 Oct 202614.7p28.2p55.8p
23 Oct 20265.2p29.0p47.8p
24 Oct 2026−0.5p6.3p28.0p
25 Oct 2026−7.3p3.0p31.2p
26 Oct 20264.9p25.8p52.2p
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