Independent directory of the major UK business gas and electricity suppliers. Open any supplier for ownership, financials, value-added services, pros and cons, and their own published out-of-contract rates with a link straight through to the supplier's rate page.
We cite the Citizens Advice non-domestic supplier league for Q4 2025. Lower scores are better, the score reflects complaints per ten thousand customers weighted by severity. Source: citizensadvice.org.uk.
The major UK business energy suppliers
Founded date, current chief executive, headquarters, latest published revenue, complaints ranking, value-added services, and three things each supplier is genuinely good at.
Nationwide engineer network for service, repair and metering via Centrica.
Comprehensive multi-site billing and reporting suite for portfolio customers.
British Gas out-of-contract rates 2026
Effective 24 May 2026. Supplier's own published rate schedule, checked 21 Aug 2026.
Electricity
44.88p/kWh·214.15p/day
Same rate applies to Profile Class 05-08 and half-hourly whole-current meters. Unmetered supply is 47.13 p/kWh with no standing charge. One national price, no regional split.
Gas
15.01p/kWh·182.98p/day
Large non-daily meter (AQ 73,200 kWh and over) is 10.53 p/kWh with an 844.83 p/day standing charge. Daily-metered sites are 11.77 p/kWh.
Owned by Iberdrola, one of the largest renewables operators in Europe.
Largest UK onshore-wind generator, providing strong renewables hedge.
UK-wide 225 p/day deemed gas standing charge, flat across all 14 supply areas rather than regionally loaded.
Scottish Power out-of-contract rates 2025
Effective 1 January 2025. Supplier's own published rate schedule, checked 21 Aug 2026.
Electricity
34.10p/kWh·230.30p/day
Regional range 33.720 p/kWh (Midlands) to 36.110 p/kWh (Scottish Hydro), on a 203.78 to 270.70 p/day standing charge. Economy 7 is 34.190 p/kWh day and 29.660 p/kWh night at the median.
Gas
10.42p/kWh·225p/day
Regional range 10.270 to 10.650 p/kWh. The 225.00 p/day standing charge is the same in every supply area.
Largest single-source UK low-carbon generator via the nuclear fleet.
Strong I&C and large-portfolio capability for half-hourly multi-site clients.
Migrating to the Kraken platform for SME quoting.
EDF out-of-contract rates 2026
Effective 1 August 2026. Supplier's own published rate schedule, checked 21 Aug 2026.
Electricity
38.32p/kWh·416.13p/day
One national unit rate. Daily charge is regional and DUoS-banded: 394.62 to 428.36 p/day in Band 1, and 371.82 to 1,142.13 p/day across every band. Unmetered supply is 364.42 p/day at 38.321 p/kWh.
Strong gas-trading capability via TotalEnergies parent group.
Transparent published deemed schedules with prior-period archive.
TotalEnergies out-of-contract rates 2026
Effective 1 June 2026. Supplier's own website, checked 21 Aug 2026.
Electricity
40.28p/kWh·site-specific standing charge
Non-half-hourly day rate is 43.15 p/kWh and night 29.85 p/kWh. Half-hourly anytime is 34.84 p/kWh. Every electricity meter carries a site-specific daily charge shown on the bill.
Gas
10.09p/kWh·256p/day
Sites with an AQ above 732,000 kWh get a site-specific daily standing charge.
Backed by Marubeni Corporation's $50bn balance sheet.
SmartestEnergy out-of-contract rates 2026
Effective 1 June 2026. Supplier's own published rate schedule, checked 21 Aug 2026.
Electricity
43.00p/kWh·400p/day
Profile Class 5-8 carries the same 43 p/kWh unit rate on a 500 p/day standing charge. Half-hourly deemed is 49 p/kWh with a regional standing charge from 698.51 to 1,352.68 p/day.
Multiple-times awarded Best Business Energy Supplier.
Frequent rate-card updates published openly as PDFs.
Crown Gas & Power out-of-contract rates 2026
Effective 1 August 2026. Supplier's own published rate schedule, checked 21 Aug 2026.
Electricity
36.25p/kWh·site-specific standing charge
Regional range 35.33 p/kWh (MIDE) to 38.66 p/kWh (HYDE). Half-hourly low voltage runs 32.08 to 36.66 p/kWh. Crown publishes the daily standing charge as site-specific rather than a flat figure.
Gas
9.13p/kWh·site-specific standing charge
Band 2 (73,201 to 293,000 kWh) is 8.834 p/kWh and Band 3 (over 293,001 kWh) is 8.703 p/kWh. Daily standing charge is site-specific and inclusive of an administrative charge.
SEFE Securing Energy for Europe GmbH (German government)
Chief executive
Dr Egbert Laege (group)
Headquarters
Manchester
Latest revenue
Not published
What they're great at
UK gas-supply specialist with deep wholesale capability.
Competitive gas-only deemed rate around 6.85 p/kWh.
Now backed by sovereign German state for stability.
SEFE Energy out-of-contract rates 2026
Effective 1 August 2026. Supplier's own published rate schedule, checked 21 Aug 2026.
Electricity
Not offered
Gas
8.80p/kWh·263p/day
One unit rate across all ten microbusiness bands. Standing charge climbs by band, 263 p/day (Band 1) to 1,078 p/day (Band 10, AQ up to 293,071 kWh). Non-microbusiness sites are site-specific pass-through.
Fastest-growing UK B2B supplier, revenue +40% FY24.
Around 2.7% UK B2B market share, up from 1.3% two years ago.
Strong cash position post-Shell hedging deal.
Yü Energy out-of-contract rates 2025
Effective 25 August 2025. Supplier's own published rate schedule, checked 21 Aug 2026.
Electricity
45.30p/kWh·300p/day
Non-half-hourly prices also apply to half-hourly unmetered supplies. Half-hourly low voltage is regional: 48.2 to 50.4 p/kWh day, 43.3 to 43.8 p/kWh night, on a 2,490 to 3,240 p/day standing charge.
Gas
13.90p/kWh·425p/day
One unit rate across all three bands. Standing charge is 425 p/day for Bands 1 and 2, with a 1,000 p/day minimum on Band 3 (AQ over 732,001 kWh).
Shell plc's UK B2B energy arm. Commercial-only supply across SME, mid-market and Industrial & Commercial, with a heavy I&C and large-corporate footprint.
Backed by Shell plc, one of the world's largest energy companies, with deep wholesale-trading capability.
Strong I&C and large-corporate offering, including bespoke flex contracts and corporate PPAs.
Renewable electricity and biomethane / RGGO-backed gas available across business products.
Shell Energy out-of-contract rates 2026
Effective 1 July 2026. Supplier's own website, checked 21 Aug 2026.
Electricity
35.47p/kWh·168p/day
Half-hourly extended supply is 35.081 p/kWh on a 217 p/day standing charge with pass-through availability charges. Shell's separate deemed rate, for move-ins rather than contract roll-off, is 28.312 p/kWh on the same 168 p/day.
Gas
11.04p/kWh·548p/day
Bands 2 and 3 (AQ 73,201 to 732,000) are 11.242 p/kWh on 1,688 p/day, Band 4+ is 11.133 p/kWh on 2,747 p/day. Shell's deemed gas rate is 7.482 p/kWh on 446 p/day.
French utility ENGIE's UK B2B arm. Focused on Industrial & Commercial supply, energy services and corporate Power Purchase Agreements, with a long-standing position serving large multi-site customers.
Tier-1 European utility, balance-sheet strength backs long-dated I&C contracts.
Deep corporate-PPA capability, useful for buyers building a Scope 2 reduction plan.
Wide energy-services portfolio: district energy, EV charging, on-site solar and battery.
ENGIE out-of-contract rates 2026
Effective 1 June 2026. Supplier's own published rate schedule, checked 21 Aug 2026.
Electricity
37.89p/kWh·528p/day
One national rate, effective from 1 June 2026 until further notice. ENGIE publishes a separate half-hourly default schedule and a separate, cheaper deemed schedule for move-ins.
Gas
13.32p/kWh·220p/day
One unit rate across all nine AQ bands. The standing charge climbs with annual quantity, 220 p/day at the bottom to 85,669 p/day at the top.
Independent power producer with a B2B-only electricity retail arm. Supplies half-hourly (Profile Class 0) sites only, with on-site generation and corporate PPAs backed by its own 983MW pipeline.
IPP-backed supplier with 983MW operational and in-construction across battery, solar, peaking gas and synchronous condensers; gives physical hedging capability that pure retailers lack.
Half-hourly only focus from October 2025 means a dedicated I&C operating model rather than a mass-market retention book.
Match+ product offers half-hourly REGO matching for clients with serious sustainability reporting requirements.
Conrad Energy out-of-contract rates 2026
Effective 1 July 2026. Supplier's own website, checked 21 Aug 2026.
Electricity
33.51p/kWh·122.41p/day
Night rate (midnight to 7am) is 24.61 p/kWh. LV site-specific bands are 32.05 p/kWh day and HV site-specific 30.64 p/kWh day, on standing charges from 122.31 to 54,904.39 p/day.
This is a public market reference, not a list of suppliers Purely Energy holds contracts with. Our quoting process runs your consumption profile against the wider UK market, including challenger suppliers that the largest brokers often skip.
Full UK business energy supplier directory
Every UK non-domestic gas and electricity licensee on the Ofgem register, normalised under the trading name your business will actually see on a contract. 120 entities, searchable by trading name, licence holder, parent or company number. 16 of these are covered in depth in the directory above and route there automatically, leaving 104 long-tail suppliers with their own lighter profile page.
Each profile shows the trading name, every Ofgem licence held under that name, contact details and rate-availability status. Where the licence holder is a UK limited company we also publish live business intelligence drawn from Purely Energy's independent research on each supplier: incorporation date and years trading, current ultimate owner, employee headcount, the latest five filed years of turnover, profit and balance-sheet position, and credit risk band. That gives you a single page to assess whether a supplier is large, growing, financially sound and worth inviting into a tender, before you ever pick up the phone.
Licence-holder data is taken from the Ofgem all-licensees register and re-checked against Companies House and the supplier's own website. The two source registers are published and maintained by Ofgem, the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets:
Trading names, contact details and out-of-contract rate information change frequently. Always verify on the supplier's own website before relying on a number, rate or renewal date.
Who is the biggest UK electricity supplier?
Two league tables built from Elexon's settlement data: the largest domestic suppliers (households) and the largest commercial suppliers (the non-domestic market Purely serves). Ranked by electricity meter points for 2025 Q1, refreshed automatically each quarter as Elexon publishes.
Largest commercial electricity suppliers
Non-domestic (business and I&C) supply, by meter points.
By electricity import meter points, 2025 Q1. Source: Elexon BSC Number of Metering Systems.
Non-domestic = all half-hourly sites plus Profile Class 3 to 8 non-half-hourly meters (the businesses Purely serves). Ranked by meter points (customer sites), not revenue or official market value. Share is of the named suppliers shown; Elexon's sub-threshold “Other Supplier” aggregate is excluded.
Largest domestic electricity suppliers
Household supply, by meter points.
By electricity import meter points, 2025 Q1. Source: Elexon BSC Number of Metering Systems.
Domestic = Profile Class 1 and 2 non-half-hourly plus domestic unmetered supply. Ranked by meter points (customer sites), not revenue or official market value. Share is of the named suppliers shown; Elexon's sub-threshold “Other Supplier” aggregate is excluded.
Who is the biggest UK gas supplier?
Gas is not as open as electricity. Electricity supplier volumes are published quarterly by Elexon (the league tables above), but named-supplier gas market share sits with Xoserve, the gas market's central data body, behind a Data Services Contract, so there is no public business-gas league table to rank. We will not invent one.
What the public data does show
Domestic gas: Ofgem publishes named-supplier domestic market share. British Gas has long been the largest domestic gas supplier. See Ofgem's retail market indicators.
Business gas: no free named-supplier dataset exists. The major suppliers by business gas are the same large players you see in the electricity tables (British Gas, Corona Energy, SEFE, Crown Gas & Power, TotalEnergies), but a ranked share is not publicly published.
Live system: National Gas publishes where gas physically enters the network in real time, shown opposite.
Where gas is physically entering the National Transmission System right now, by entry point. Wholesale system data, not supplier share.
Live
UK supplier electricity market share
Compare suppliers by their non-domestic (B2B) import meters, export meters, and average MWh per meter for FY24/25, sourced from Elexon's quarterly Energy Volumes and Number of Metering Systems datasets. Domestic-only volumes are filtered out so the picture matches what a business buyer actually sees in the market.
Out-of-contract vs fixed-rate, run the numbers
Sites that roll past their contract end date drop onto deemed or out-of-contract rates, which can sit well above current fixed offers. Enter your actual rate to see the difference, or read the out-of-contract rates for all 16 suppliers, compared.
Out-of-contract vs fixed-rate savings
Enter your current out-of-contract rate (from your bill or the supplier's deemed rates page) and a fixed-rate scenario to compare. We do not invent supplier rates, you enter the figures you have.
Out-of-contract annual
£14,310
Fixed-rate annual
£9,764
Annual saving
£4,546
32% lower
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