UK wholesale electricity price this week
The UK figure, week by week, with the news behind it.
Updated
On 3 Nov 2026, the GB wholesale electricity price was 201.6 GBP/MWh. In the week ending 1 Nov 2026 it averaged 168.1 GBP/MWh, up 18.8% on the week before. Source: Elexon (GB electricity market data).
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What this price is
This is the GB wholesale electricity price: a daily average of the market index price in Elexon's market data, in pounds per megawatt-hour. Suppliers buy power on the wholesale market before selling it on to businesses, so this is the part of a business electricity price that moves from week to week.
It is not your tariff. A business bill also carries network and balancing charges and government levies, which are set separately; our business energy prices briefing lists the published ones. The weekly figures below are the average of the daily readings stored for each week.
Week by week
| Week ending | Average | On the week before | Days stored |
|---|---|---|---|
| This week so far (to ) | 205.5 GBP/MWh | — | 2 |
| 168.1 GBP/MWh | up 18.8% | 7 | |
| 141.5 GBP/MWh | down 13.1% | 7 | |
| 162.9 GBP/MWh | up 31.5% | 7 | |
| 123.8 GBP/MWh | down 14.4% | 7 | |
| 144.6 GBP/MWh | — | 7 | |
| 151.1 GBP/MWh | — | 3 |
Source: Elexon (GB electricity market data). Each week runs Monday to Sunday; its figure is the average of the daily readings stored for it. A week is compared only once it is over and has at least 4 days stored.
The latest readings
- : 201.6 GBP/MWh
- : 209.4 GBP/MWh
- : 213.9 GBP/MWh
- : 205.8 GBP/MWh
- : 212 GBP/MWh
- : 198.7 GBP/MWh
- : 133.4 GBP/MWh
- : 132.3 GBP/MWh
- : 80.5 GBP/MWh
- : 61.1 GBP/MWh
The news moving it
No indexed analysis names this cost in the UK right now. New analyses appear here as they are published.
How this analysis was produced
- Data sources
- UK wholesale electricity price this week: Elexon (GB electricity market data); Atri engine: indexed analyses
- What the AI did
- No AI wrote this page. It is assembled automatically from the stored readings of a published price series and the indexed analyses (each written by an AI model, with its own disclosure).
- Checked automatically
- every figure is a stored reading, quoted with its date and publisher; only indexed analyses are listed.
- What people did
- People chose the series and wrote the explanation of what it measures. No person reviews this page before its figures change.
- Data as of
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