Weekly Electricity Prices

What is happening to wholesale price this week?
Does the price of electricity vary depending on the day of the week?
How much electricity is being traded this week?
What happened to the electricity price over the last 4 months?
How volatile are energy prices?
Is electricity cheaper at night or weekends?
Is electricity ever free?

These are all questions and more are answered in these live daily wholesale price / volume charts.

This a continuous live stream of real time electricity prices and demand. The data is updated every 30 minutes, 24/7/365.

This information is based on data provided by the National Grid.

The first chart shows the total demand, price, imbalance price over the last 7 days. This give an complete overview of the trend in energy trading in the UK.

This is the price that suppliers are trading energy at on the intra-day market.
This differs from the day ahead price used for indexes like RPD.
Intra day prices are highly volative, frequently ranging from zero to £50-£100 per MWh within the same day/week.

Mid Market prices are useful for tracking market volatility, which in turn affects the day ahead and futures prices,
which itself affects the prices that suppliers offer to energy consumers.

The tables give actual figures, for those who like more detail.

All graphs can be downloaded and shared.

All energy generation is measured in Gigawatts, GW. Energy prices are in £ / MWh, MegaWatt/Hours