What’s the cheapest energy tariff right now?

Here are the cheapest energy tariffs we currently track — real, named deals with their actual rates, next to the Ofgem price cap. Every figure is from our own tariff database, inclusive of VAT, dated to when we scraped it.

Yes — are there deals cheaper than the price cap? In North Wales & Mersey, 20 of the electricity tariffs we track come in under that region’s price cap of 27.66p/kWh. A fixed deal locks the unit rate; a cheaper standard-variable rate can move at the supplier’s discretion.

These are the lowest rates among the 599 tariffs we track across 8 named suppliers, shown for North Wales & Mersey — the region we track most fully. It is not a whole-of-market comparison, and the cheapest deal for your home depends on how much you use (a low unit rate with a high standing charge can lose to the opposite). Electricity is compared to the price cap for the same region; the cap is itself regional, so the GB-average figure usually quoted is 26.11p/kWh. Gas is compared to the GB-average gas cap (7.33p/kWh) as we hold no per-region gas cap. Rates inclusive of VAT, as scraped 31 Jul 2026 — single-region data anomalies are excluded, so a bad reading never becomes a headline figure.