Octopus Agile prices in North East England
North East England is region F on Octopus Agile. The figures below come from the last 30 days of real half-hourly prices, calibrated 2026-10-29 and refreshed daily.
When is it usually cheapest?
| Window | Time | Average per kWh |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest three hours | 12:00–15:00 | 24.5p |
| Best overnight | 02:00–05:00 | 25.4p |
| Peak — avoid | 16:00–19:00 | 49.1p |
In other words, a load of washing run at the evening peak in North East England costs 2× what it costs in the cheapest window — same machine, same clothes.
On the original Agile tariff? If you joined before 2022 you may still be on the first version. It prices identically to the current one at every half-hour, but caps the unit rate at 35p — so North East England's typical peak of 49.1p is billed at 35p, making the gap 1.4× rather than 2×. The cheap windows are unaffected: the cap only ever bites above 35p, which is the stretch this page tells you to avoid anyway.
The hours are national. The bill is regional.
This surprises people. Agile follows a single national wholesale market, so all fourteen regions bottom out at much the same hours — around 1pm, and again around 2am — and peak in the late afternoon. The regional difference is not when power is cheap. It is how cheap.
North East England sits 6 of fourteen — mid-table. It is 1.3p per kWh dearer than East Midlands at the cheap end, without reaching Northern Scotland at the other. That gap is geography rather than habit, and nothing you do changes it. What you can change is when you use power.
What counts as cheap here?
Measured against North East England's own last 30 days, 22.2p or less counts as cheap and anything above 35.5p counts as expensive. Those thresholds differ region by region, which is why this site grades prices against where you live rather than nationally — a dear region measured on a national scale would show red all day and never tell you anything.
Today's actual prices
The figures above are typical. For North East England's actual prices today and tomorrow — and to pick your own window length from one to six hours — open the Good Hours homepage and enter your postcode.
Compared with the rest
The cheapest of the fourteen is East Midlands at 23.2p; the dearest is Northern Scotland at 28.5p. The full table is on the regional comparison.