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.

Period

Region

Pick a date · last 30 days

Northern Scotland

Free or negative pricesToday

Tomorrow can be picked once prices are out, after 4pm. Only the last 30 days can be picked for now.

30‑day average, Agile vs other tariffs

19%

dearer than Flexible Octopus

31.5p vs 26.4p

14%

dearer than Octopus Tracker

31.5p vs 27.5p

21%

dearer than Octopus Go

31.5p vs 26.0p

34%

dearer than Cosy Octopus

31.5p vs 23.4p

−8.1p

Cheapest in the last 30 days was on 25 Oct

27 hours

Negative prices avg 9h per neg. day

10% of days

3 of 30 days had negative prices

15.5 hours

Longest negative period was on 25 Oct

31.5p

Average price over last 30 days

Show as a table

Date	Min	Average	Max
27 Sep 2026	−2.4p	23.4p	52.8p
28 Sep 2026	29.5p	42.4p	78.6p
29 Sep 2026	14.2p	33.8p	58.7p
30 Sep 2026	10.5p	28.1p	54.9p
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 2026	28.1p	36.5p	58.3p
2 Oct 2026	26.3p	36.1p	53.3p
3 Oct 2026	26.9p	36.4p	55.8p
4 Oct 2026	7.8p	31.5p	56.5p
5 Oct 2026	13.1p	30.9p	57.6p
6 Oct 2026	28.6p	39.6p	78.5p
7 Oct 2026	20.4p	36.2p	56.1p
8 Oct 2026	13.6p	29.6p	57.4p
9 Oct 2026	2.7p	12.6p	31.7p
10 Oct 2026	−3.7p	9.9p	50.5p
11 Oct 2026	19.2p	35.3p	60.0p
12 Oct 2026	16.9p	36.3p	56.7p
13 Oct 2026	14.4p	27.7p	52.5p
14 Oct 2026	16.1p	33.7p	54.3p
15 Oct 2026	23.5p	36.3p	65.5p
16 Oct 2026	30.3p	41.4p	62.9p
17 Oct 2026	26.7p	36.3p	58.3p
18 Oct 2026	25.9p	37.1p	61.0p
19 Oct 2026	33.3p	42.9p	64.2p
20 Oct 2026	30.0p	40.0p	58.9p
21 Oct 2026	19.8p	37.7p	58.0p
22 Oct 2026	18.3p	34.2p	65.3p
23 Oct 2026	6.8p	35.2p	55.7p
24 Oct 2026	0.1p	8.0p	31.8p
25 Oct 2026	−8.1p	4.0p	35.7p
26 Oct 2026	6.6p	31.3p	60.9p