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UK Business Energy Monthly Market Outlook
The longer view on gas and power — the month's trend and what it means for your renewal.
A monthly outlook from our Liverpool market desk — gas, power, storage, weather and forward direction, and what the bigger picture means for your next contract.
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Get the latest UK gas and electricity wholesale prices. Updated daily with power market insights, price trends, and tips to help your business stay ahead.
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August 2026: gas up 18%, power up 12%. Cheaper window closed as Hormuz tensions and low storage pushed prices to records.
Gas and power both climbed hard this week; near-term prices now at multi-year highs. What it means for your renewal.
Every Friday
Weekly Market Reports
What moved this week, why it moved, and what it means for business renewals.
Get the latest UK gas and electricity wholesale prices. Updated daily with power market insights, price trends, and tips to help your business stay ahead.
Gas and power rose 6–9% this week on US–Iran tensions and tight storage. Near-term contracts now near their highest in months.
Gas and power both climbed hard this week; near-term prices now at multi-year highs. What it means for your renewal.
Gas and power both hit record highs this week. All contracts climbed; near-term prices are at their dearest. Renewing soon? The case for fixing now is stronger.
Gas up 8.4%, power up 7.8% this week. Middle East tensions and tight European storage push prices higher.
Gas and power eased 3–5% this week as geopolitical risk faded, but remain near month highs. European storage tight; heatwave persists.
Monthly
Monthly Market Outlook
The longer view — gas, power, storage, weather and the forward market direction.
Get the latest UK gas and electricity wholesale prices. Updated daily with power market insights, price trends, and tips to help your business stay ahead.
August 2026: gas up 18%, power up 12%. Cheaper window closed as Hormuz tensions and low storage pushed prices to records.
July 2026 energy market review: gas and power climbed 35% and 25% on Middle East tensions, LNG tightness and low European storage.
June 2026: gas fell 9.5% to 102.61p but bounced 2.7% as geopolitical risks resurged. Power down 2.3%. Forward curve expects easing into 2027–28.
Day 54. Ceasefire extension holding but settlement climbed a third day — gas +4%, power +1%. UK nuclear delays, weak wind, vessel seizures support prices.
March 2026 monthly review. Gas rose 79% as the Iran conflict closed Hormuz and damaged Qatar's LNG facilities. What happened, week by week, and what it means for you
Supplier notices
Supplier Updates
Contract rules, billing changes and notices from UK business energy suppliers.
Day 54. Ceasefire extension holding but settlement climbed a third day — gas +4%, power +1%. UK nuclear delays, weak wind, vessel seizures support prices.
An EDF client faced an £84,963 bill based on years of estimated reads. We disputed it, invoked Ofgem's backbilling rules, and got it down to £2,158.
Tomato Energy customers transferred to British Gas on expensive deemed rates. Learn why you're overpaying and how to switch to better fixed contracts today.
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Tomato Energy faces administration after Ofgem’s £1.5m penalty for liquidity failings. Here’s what it means for affected business customers.
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Industry & policy
Industry Insights
Policy, network costs, levies and regulation shaping business energy bills.
A plain-English guide to MHHS for UK businesses: how half-hourly settlement works, the rollout timeline to 2027, and the one myth that could cost you money.
Day 54. Ceasefire extension holding but settlement climbed a third day — gas +4%, power +1%. UK nuclear delays, weak wind, vessel seizures support prices.
An EDF client faced an £84,963 bill based on years of estimated reads. We disputed it, invoked Ofgem's backbilling rules, and got it down to £2,158.
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Autumn Budget 2025 explained for businesses. Household levies cut, wholesale prices down 20%, but Nuclear RAB Levy and TNUoS increases still coming.
Avoid deemed rates
Out-of-Contract Rates
Guidance for businesses that have rolled onto expensive deemed or variable rates.
Yu Energy's Deemed Plan electricity, gas and water rates — the charges that apply with no agreed contract. Check yours and see what fixing could save.
Utilita's business out-of-contract & deemed electricity and gas rates, by supply area. Check yours and see what you could save by fixing.
Yorkshire Gas & Power out-of-contract rates from 1 May 2026: 15.00p gas. See what yours costs a month and how fast you can switch.
ScottishPower Business's published out-of-contract and deemed rates for all 14 supply areas. Pick your area to see the rates that apply to you.
Smartest Energy out-of-contract rates from 1 April 2026: 8.04p gas. See what yours costs a month and how fast you can switch.
Pozitive Energy out-of-contract rates: 45.00p electricity, 15.00p gas. Work out what yours costs a month, and how quickly you can switch away.
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About the monthly outlook.
A broader read than the daily and weekly reports — the month's move in wholesale gas and power, plus the drivers behind it: storage, weather, demand, supply, and the forward curve
out to future winters and calendar years.
The daily
report is a quick read on today's move; the weekly
recaps the week's trend. The monthly
outlook zooms out to the direction over weeks and months — most useful when your renewal is further out.
Once a month, at the start of the month — covering the period just gone and the direction into the months ahead. The daily and weekly reports continue in between.
No. We report wholesale market prices
and the trends behind them — what's happening and why — not a prediction of where prices will land. Your quoted business rate sits above these wholesale figures.
If your renewal is months away, watch the monthly trend and the forward curve for your window: a sustained easing can mean there's room to wait; a firming trend can mean it pays to fix. If you'd rather not track it yourself, we'll do it for you — get a quote
and we'll advise on timing.
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Storage builds and draws, weather and demand, LNG and pipeline supply, and geopolitics — plus policy and network costs. The monthly outlook pulls these together so you can see the bigger picture behind the price.
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Reading the market is half of it. We'll time the rest.
You've seen where prices sit. Now let a real adviser put it to work — we compare 28+ UK suppliers and fix your renewal at the right moment. Free, no obligation, no hard sell.
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Get the latest UK gas and electricity wholesale prices. Updated daily with power market insights, price trends, and tips to help your business stay ahead.
August 2026: gas up 18%, power up 12%. Cheaper window closed as Hormuz tensions and low storage pushed prices to records.
July 2026 energy market review: gas and power climbed 35% and 25% on Middle East tensions, LNG tightness and low European storage.
June 2026: gas fell 9.5% to 102.61p but bounced 2.7% as geopolitical risks resurged. Power down 2.3%. Forward curve expects easing into 2027–28.
Day 54. Ceasefire extension holding but settlement climbed a third day — gas +4%, power +1%. UK nuclear delays, weak wind, vessel seizures support prices.
March 2026 monthly review. Gas rose 79% as the Iran conflict closed Hormuz and damaged Qatar's LNG facilities. What happened, week by week, and what it means for you
