UK business energy prices, live from our quotes

Business gas prices by business size

More on business gas, from contract types to the wholesale market: business gas prices and tenders.

Business electricity prices by business size

More on business electricity, from meter types to non-commodity costs: business electricity prices and tenders.

How we make the tables

1. Real quotes only. When our team prices a business meter, the CRM asks every supplier on our panel for a price (through their pricing feeds, and by email for bespoke tenders) and saves every price that comes back. Each of those saved prices is a row we can count. The tables use this calendar month's runs, for contracts starting on any date.
2. The cheapest supplier only. For each meter and each of the 1, 2 and 3 year fixes, we take the one supplier offer with the lowest cost over a year at that meter's usage (unit rate x annual kWh, plus standing charge x 365) from any of its quotes this month. No other supplier's price is averaged in. A low unit rate with a big standing charge is not the cheapest deal for every site, so we do not pick on unit rate alone.
3. Each meter once, compared properly. Agents often run the same meter several times in a month (in the first nine days of November 2026, 291 electricity runs covered 57 meters), sometimes asking just one supplier for a fresh price. Each meter counts once, and only when at least 5 suppliers priced it, so a busy meter cannot outweigh the rest and a single-supplier re-quote is never shown as the market price.
4. Our fee, stated. The unit rate shown is the supplier's own rate plus our standard broker fee of 0.6p/kWh on gas and 1p/kWh on electricity. We use the supplier's rate before any agent uplift, then add the same fee to every meter, so every figure means the same thing. The standing charge is the supplier's, with nothing added.
5. Grouped by size. Meters go into bands by annual use: nil use (0 to 100 kWh), very low (100 to 5,000), micro (5,000 to 15,000), small (15,000 to 30,000), medium (30,000 to 65,000) and 65,000 kWh and over. We label the top band by usage rather than calling it large: almost every meter in it is still an Ofgem microbusiness. Half-hourly meters and the largest sites are priced by bespoke tender and are not in these tables.
6. The middle figure. Each cell shows the median: half the meters in that band were offered less, half more. We use the median, not the average, because a few sites with large capacity charges pull an average up. Every cell says how many quotes it comes from, so a figure from one quote reads as one real price.
7. Early in a month. A cell with no quotes yet this month shows last month's figure, starred and named with that month.

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Suppliers in this month's tenders

These 17 suppliers returned prices in our Compare Prices runs in November 2026, so their prices are in the tables above. We never show which supplier gave which price. Bespoke tenders for larger sites also go to suppliers that price by email.

What the figures leave out

• Climate Change Levy and VAT. Add them to compare with a bill.
• Half-hourly and day/night (multi-rate) electricity meters. They are priced in parts, so a single unit rate would mislead.
• Custom quotes, rates under 1p or over 100p/kWh, and test or internal records.
• Out-of-contract and deemed rates. These are prices for new fixed contracts only.

For the government's market-wide figures, which include out-of-contract supply, see the business gas and electricity pages. For the wholesale price behind every quote, see live wholesale market data.

November 2026 in charts

Snapshots of the same quotes, to 9 November 2026, free to share with a link back to this page. The tables above update as we quote, so they will move on from these.