Average domestic electricity bill by payment type, UK
The average annual bill for a household in the UK using 3,400 kWh of electricity a year, by how it pays, each calendar year since 2014, in cash terms including VAT.
Average bill, all payment types
£1,069.34
2025
Verified against source, 28 October 2026, 23:42 UTC- Standard credit
- Direct debit
- Prepayment
- All payment types
Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
12 periods, newest first
| Period | Standard credit | Direct debit | Prepayment | All payment types |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | £1,124.83 | £1,059.39 | £1,055.75 | £1,069.34 |
| 2024 | £1,123.41 | £1,081.66 | £1,044.29 | £1,083.23 |
| 2023 | £1,260.51 | £1,205.62 | £1,195.24 | £1,213.37 |
| 2022 | £1,166.73 | £1,094.85 | £1,067.38 | £1,103.31 |
| 2021 | £780.58 | £716.96 | £741.53 | £731.10 |
| 2020 | £718.87 | £653.96 | £686.43 | £670.73 |
| 2019 | £716.53 | £648.59 | £666.25 | £664.23 |
| 2018 | £662.24 | £597.07 | £592.53 | £609.81 |
| 2017 | £610.81 | £547.61 | £563.78 | £564.53 |
| 2016 | £566.75 | £506.64 | £564.99 | £531.15 |
| 2015 | £568.63 | £516.71 | £570.69 | £539.50 |
| 2014 | £572.28 | £526.90 | £575.49 | £547.50 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Check it yourself
- https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/annual-domestic-energy-price-statistics
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 28 October 2026, 23:40 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/statistical-data-sets/annual-domestic-energy-price-statisticsSHA-256 e0fe16cff0d10f14363a65d2fdf72ec286ea1730227a56df23e403eaf340b0c2 · 55,796 bytes
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a4245907ac6fd9c6a94aae0/table_221__1_.xlsxSHA-256 ee500093a72d538de90393bc6200b499d4ccd1e7a40a20886068e661a1d71eea · 300,501 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 28 October 2026, 23:42 UTC Run at 28 October 2026, 23:42 UTC; 48 of 48 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-10-28T23:40:15Z; 2 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 2 of 2 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 48 of 48 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 48 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 48 of 48 figures match exactly after downloading 2 source file(s) again (2 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | latest period 2025 ended 301 days before retrieval (limit 400), from Average annual domestic electricity bills by payment type (QEP 2.2.1) |
| Pass | Regional table's UK row agrees | 16 of 16 figures match the United Kingdom rows of https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a4245ab7ac6fd9c6a94aae1/table_223__1_.xlsx |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/annual-domestic-energy-price-statistics – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Bills are for a standard electricity tariff at a fixed consumption of 3,400 kWh a year, so they show prices rather than what households actually spent. From October 2022 they include the Energy Price Guarantee and from 2022 to 2023 the Energy Bills Support Scheme discount. The latest year is provisional until DESNZ revises it in March.