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Electricity prices in Northern Scotland

Britain has fourteen electricity regions and the price is different in each one. This is the one that covers AB, DD, HS, IV, KW, PH, ZE. Everything below is for this region only.

The cheapest electricity tariff we can verify here is from E.ON Next, on their Next Pledge Tracker 12m v12 tariff, at about £845 a year on typical use.

Price cap unit rate

26.35p per kWh

What you pay for each unit of electricity on a default tariff here.

Price cap standing charge

55.14p a day

Paid whether or not you use any electricity. About £201 a year.

Cheapest tariffs where you live

168 electricity, 182 gas, 168 dual fuel prices from 3 suppliers, ranked by what a year actually costs, not by the unit rate alone. A low unit rate with a high standing charge is a worse deal and this ordering catches that.

Checked 27 Aug 26, 08:42 UTC · octopus, edf, eonnext

Not the whole market yet

3 suppliers, not the whole market. E.ON Next, EDF Energy, Octopus Energy publish their prices openly enough for us to check them every morning, on the direct debit basis, taken from the endpoint that states the payment method rather than the one that leaves it to guesswork. British Gas, Scottish Power, Ovo and the rest do not publish, so they are not here. We would rather show you the suppliers we have actually checked than imply we have checked everybody.

Where the satisfaction figure comes from

Ofgem Energy Consumer Satisfaction Survey, January 2026. Fieldwork ran from 5 January to 3 February 2026 and asked 3,911 households. The GB average is 81%. Ofgem reports E.ON and E.ON Next as one group, so the E.ON Next figure covers both. Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence. Read it →

We would rather use the Citizens Advice star rating, which is a better measure because it counts complaints, call waiting times and billing accuracy rather than asking people how they feel. We do not, because its terms do not allow reproduction for commercial purposes without written permission and this site carries affiliate links elsewhere. We have gone to Ofgem instead, which is published under the Open Government Licence, and we link to Citizens Advice rather than copying it. The Citizens Advice table →

What these prices are, exactly

Every one is the direct debit price for your region, today, with VAT at 5%. That matters more than it sounds. Each of these suppliers publishes two prices for the same tariff, one for direct debit and one for everything else, about 5% apart. Mixing the two up makes one supplier look cheaper than it is, so we take only the rate the supplier itself labels as direct debit.

We do not line these up against the cap figures at the top of the page. On 1 October a new cap starts and VAT on household electricity drops to 0%. The cap table is already on that new footing and these tariffs are not, so putting the two side by side would flatter one of them.

or find my region from my postcode →

Estimated annual cost is the standing charge for a year plus Ofgem's typical consumption at the unit rate: 2,500 kWh of electricity, 9,500 kWh of gas, or both together for a dual fuel figure. Everything here is the direct debit price, and your own use decides your bill.

#Supplier and tariffUnit rateStanding Estimated yearSatisfactionWhat kind of tariff
1 E.ON Next
Next Pledge Tracker 12m v12
25.41p
per kWh
57.55p
per day
£845
a year, 2,500 kWh
81%
satisfied
Cheapest here Variable, moves with the cap
2 Octopus Energy
Flexible Octopus
26.42p
per kWh
54.26p
per day
£859
a year, 2,500 kWh
90%
satisfied
Variable, moves with the cap
3 EDF Energy
EDF Exclusive Sep28
New sign ups close 1 Oct 27
26.04p
per kWh
57.55p
per day
£861
a year, 2,500 kWh
75%
satisfied
Fixed price
4 Octopus Energy
Octopus 12M Fixed
26.83p
per kWh
54.26p
per day
£869
a year, 2,500 kWh
90%
satisfied
Fixed price
5 EDF Energy
Standard Variable
26.42p
per kWh
57.55p
per day
£870
a year, 2,500 kWh
75%
satisfied
Variable, moves with the cap
6 E.ON Next
Next Flex
26.42p
per kWh
57.55p
per day
£870
a year, 2,500 kWh
81%
satisfied
Variable, moves with the cap
7 E.ON Next
Next Fixed 12m v151
26.45p
per kWh
57.55p
per day
£871
a year, 2,500 kWh
81%
satisfied
Fixed price
8 E.ON Next
Next Fixed 24m v65
26.46p
per kWh
57.55p
per day
£871
a year, 2,500 kWh
81%
satisfied
Fixed price
9 E.ON Next
Next Gust 12m v62
26.93p
per kWh
57.55p
per day
£883
a year, 2,500 kWh
81%
satisfied
Fixed price
10 EDF Energy
Simply Fixed 2Yr Sep28v3
New sign ups close 1 Oct 27
27.13p
per kWh
57.55p
per day
£888
a year, 2,500 kWh
75%
satisfied
Fixed price
11 E.ON Next
Next Lower Daily Fixed 12m v151
30.05p
per kWh
39.73p
per day
£896
a year, 2,500 kWh
81%
satisfied
Fixed price
12 EDF Energy
Simply Fixed Aug27v3
New sign ups close 1 Sep 26
27.61p
per kWh
57.55p
per day
£900
a year, 2,500 kWh
75%
satisfied
Fixed price
Ranked on annual cost, never on what anyone pays us. We take no commission on energy at all. The order you see is the order the arithmetic produces.

Electricity prices by region

Britain has fourteen electricity regions and the price is different in every one. Each page carries that region's cap rates, the cheapest tariffs we can verify there, and the postcode areas it covers.

Which postcodes are in this region7 postcode areas

AB, DD, HS, IV, KW, PH, ZE.

Electricity regions follow the old distribution network areas, not council boundaries, so a few postcode areas straddle two of them. If yours is on the edge, check the letter on your bill against the region named on this page.

Check your own postcode →

Has your fix endedWhat being out of contract costs here

If a fixed tariff ended and you did nothing, you are on the default tariff, priced at the cap. That is the regulated maximum, not the best price available.

The gap, region by region →

How much should a household here be usingThe low, medium and high bands

Ofgem publishes three consumption bands and quotes every headline bill at the middle one. It has never said what size of household each band is, whatever the comparison sites claim.

What the bands really mean, and what each costs →

Why the price is different where you liveThe bit nobody explains

Getting electricity to your door costs a different amount depending on how far it travels and how many people share the network. Those network costs are set by region and passed through to your bill, which is why the cap is a different number in Cornwall than it is in London. Nothing about it is your supplier's choice, and switching supplier does not change it.

Where this comes from, and where it could be wrongSources and limits

Cap rates come from Ofgem's published regional tables. Tariff prices come straight from the suppliers who publish them openly, checked every morning, on the direct debit basis. The postcode to region mapping is the industry grid supply point mapping.

What could be wrong: a handful of postcode areas straddle two regions and we name the more common one; the tariff list is three suppliers, not the whole market; and every annual figure assumes Ofgem's typical consumption rather than yours.

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