Energy was last better‑than‑free: 7 days ago Show future prices

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.

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Region

Daily prices

3 Oct to 1 Nov 2026 · daily price range and average

Northern Scotland

5 Oct 12 Oct 19 Oct 26 Oct

30‑day average, Agile vs other tariffs

27%

dearer than Flexible Octopus

33.5p vs 26.3p

18%

dearer than Octopus Tracker

33.5p vs 28.5p

26%

dearer than Octopus Go

33.5p vs 26.7p

41%

dearer than Cosy Octopus

33.5p vs 23.8p

Stats for 3 Oct to 1 Nov 2026

−8.1p

Cheapest in the last 30 days was on 25 Oct

21.5 hours

Negative prices avg 11h per neg. day

7% of days

2 of 30 days had negative prices

15.5 hours

Longest negative period was on 25 Oct

33.5p

Average price over last 30 days

Show as a table
DateMinAverageMax
3 Oct 202626.9p36.4p55.8p
4 Oct 20267.8p31.5p56.5p
5 Oct 202613.1p30.9p57.6p
6 Oct 202628.6p39.6p78.5p
7 Oct 202620.4p36.2p56.1p
8 Oct 202613.6p29.6p57.4p
9 Oct 20262.7p12.6p31.7p
10 Oct 2026−3.7p9.9p50.5p
11 Oct 202619.2p35.3p60.0p
12 Oct 202616.9p36.3p56.7p
13 Oct 202614.4p27.7p52.5p
14 Oct 202616.1p33.7p54.3p
15 Oct 202623.5p36.3p65.5p
16 Oct 202630.3p41.4p62.9p
17 Oct 202626.7p36.3p58.3p
18 Oct 202625.9p37.1p61.0p
19 Oct 202633.3p42.9p64.2p
20 Oct 202630.0p40.0p58.9p
21 Oct 202619.8p37.7p58.0p
22 Oct 202618.3p34.2p65.3p
23 Oct 20266.8p35.2p55.7p
24 Oct 20260.1p8.0p31.8p
25 Oct 2026−8.1p4.0p35.7p
26 Oct 20263.4p30.2p60.9p
27 Oct 20262.3p25.2p65.2p
28 Oct 202631.6p43.6p65.2p
29 Oct 202641.0p49.2p72.5p
30 Oct 202638.4p47.1p71.3p
31 Oct 202642.2p49.4p70.0p
1 Nov 202641.6p48.8p69.9p