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Market figures
Current Ofgem energy price cap
The headline annual figure and capped unit rates and standing charges for a typical Direct Debit household.
Provenance
Provenance documented
- What it is
- The headline annual figure and capped unit rates and standing charges for a typical Direct Debit household.
- How it is produced
- Published third-party figure
- Coverage
- England, Scotland and Wales
- Period
- The cap period currently in force
- Last verified
- 11 August 2026
- Update cadence
- Each Ofgem cap period, on the day the period begins
- Where it lives
Database table energy_market_records, read through useEnergyBenchmark() and useCurrentPriceCap()- Delivered by
- Read live from the database
How the figure is produced
- One canonical record per cap period holds Ofgem's published unit rates and standing charges for both fuels.
- Only a record whose effective dates cover today and whose status is 'official' is treated as current. Future records do not activate early.
- Where no valid current record exists, pages show 'Awaiting verified update' rather than a stale figure.
The data
| Field | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Cap period | Q3 2026 (1 Jul – 30 Sep 2026) | |
| Effective from | 2026-07-01 | date |
| Effective to | 2026-09-30 | date |
| Coverage | England, Scotland and Wales | |
| Payment method | Direct Debit | |
| Electricity unit rate | 26.11 | p/kWh |
| Electricity standing charge | 57.19 | p/day |
| Gas unit rate | 7.33 | p/kWh |
| Gas standing charge | 29.04 | p/day |
| Electricity consumption basis | 2700 | kWh/year |
| Gas consumption basis | 11500 | kWh/year |
| Headline annual figure | 1862 | £/year |
| Previous period annual figure | 1663.84 | £/year |
- PowerGuardian public data register — current Ofgem energy price cap
- Source: Ofgem
- Source URL: https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/information-consumers/energy-advice-households/energy-price-cap-unit-rates-and-standing-charges
- Verified on: 2026-08-11
- Methodology version: v1
- The cap limits rates, not bills. Your bill depends on your actual usage.
What this figure cannot tell you
- The cap limits rates, not bills. Your own bill depends on how much energy you actually use.
- The headline figure is Ofgem's Direct Debit benchmark household. Prepayment and standard-credit customers pay on a different basis.
- Regional variation is not reflected in the headline number.
Where it is published
Related records
- Consumption basis behind the cap headline — The benchmark household consumption Ofgem uses to convert capped rates into the published headline figure.
- Ofgem Typical Domestic Consumption Values — The standard medium-household gas and electricity consumption figures used as calculator defaults.
- PowerGuardian price-cap outlook — Our estimates of the price cap in future periods. The numbers are currently withheld because we cannot show the calculation behind them.
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