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EDF Empower Tracker prices
The price cap with 10p a unit off in the early hours and 10p added across the late afternoon, and no standing charge.
Your postcode is sent once to Octopus Energy’s public region lookup — the same one they bill from. We do not put it in the URL, analytics or database, and do not keep it.
Empower Tracker takes EDF’s standard variable rate and bends it: 10p a unit comes off in a three-hour window in the early hours, and 10p goes on across the late afternoon. Everything else in the day is charged at the standard rate.
It also carries no standing charge at all, which is unusual enough to change the arithmetic entirely for a low-usage home. The prices above are the live ones for the region you have selected.
Showing South Wales. Currently on sale: Empower Tracker Exclusive 12m v2. Tariff code E-1R-EDF_EMPOWER_TRACKER_EX_SEG_12M_V2_HH-K.
- Average today
- 26.33p
- Cheapest today
- 16.33p
- Most expensive today
- 36.33p
- Standing charge
- 0.00p
weighted by how long each price lasts
per day
Today’s price bands
EDF Empower Tracker repeats a daily shape rather than pricing every half hour separately, so the bands are the schedule.
| From | To | Hours | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 01:00 | 1.0 | 26.33p |
| 01:00 | 04:00 | 3.0 | 16.33pcheapest |
| 04:00 | 16:00 | 12.0 | 26.33p |
| 16:00 | 19:00 | 3.0 | 36.33pmost expensive |
| 19:00 | 00:00 | 5.0 | 26.33p |
This tariff does not publish a separate set of prices for tomorrow — the same daily pattern applies.
When to use electricity
- Cheapest 3-hour run starts 01:00, averaging 16.33p per kWh.
- Cheapest half hour today is 01:00 at 16.33p.
- Most expensive is 16:00 at 36.33p, so it is worth avoiding heavy use then.
Against the price cap in South Wales
The Ofgem cap for a single-rate direct debit meter here is 26.33p per kWh plus 57.84p a day. Today this tariff averaged 0.00p below the cap unit rate.
This compares one day’s unit rates only. What you pay also depends on the standing charge and on when you use electricity, so treat this as an indication rather than a saving. Cap period 2026-07-01 to 2026-09-30.
Estimated annual cost
£658a year
2,500 kWh a year in South Wales, at 26.33p per kWh plus 0.00p a day standing charge.
EDF Empower Trackerprices change over time, but we do not yet hold enough days of them to take a meaningful average, so this uses the tariff’s standard rate — what you would pay having shifted nothing. Expect the real figure to be lower, and this estimate to sharpen as the price history builds.
Price history
The line is the average price for each day; the shaded band is the cheapest and most expensive price within it.
Last 30 days: 4 days from 02 Aug to 05 Aug. Average prices range from 26.33p to 26.33p per kWh, with the shaded band showing the cheapest and most expensive price in each period.
1 of 4 periods are only partly covered by stored prices and are shown as they are rather than filled in.
Show these 4 figures as a table
| Period | Average | Cheapest | Most expensive |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02 Aug | 26.33p | 26.33p | 26.33p |
| 03 Aug | 26.33p | 16.33p | 36.33p |
| 04 Aug | 26.33p | 16.33p | 36.33p |
| 05 Aug | 26.33p | 16.33p | 36.33p |
Prices by region
EDF Empower Tracker unit rate by region
The average price per unit on 2026-08-05. Where you live changes what you pay, because the cost of distributing electricity differs by network.
Hover a region for its figure, or select one to load its prices.
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| Region | Per kWh |
|---|---|
| East Midlands | 25.10p |
| North East England | 25.22p |
| Yorkshire | 25.30p |
| West Midlands | 25.33p |
| Southern Scotland | 25.85p |
| North West England | 26.13p |
| South Wales | 26.33p |
| London | 26.35p |
| Eastern England | 26.38p |
| South West England | 26.39p |
| Southern England | 26.42p |
| Northern Scotland | 26.42p |
| South East England | 26.67p |
| Merseyside and North Wales | 27.66p |
Northern Ireland has a separate electricity market and is not covered by these regions.
EDF Empower Tracker standing charge by region
The daily charge you pay before using any electricity at all. It varies more between regions than the unit rate does, and you cannot avoid it by using less.
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| Region | Per day |
|---|---|
| Eastern England | 0.0p |
| East Midlands | 0.0p |
| London | 0.0p |
| Merseyside and North Wales | 0.0p |
| West Midlands | 0.0p |
| North East England | 0.0p |
| North West England | 0.0p |
| Southern England | 0.0p |
| South East England | 0.0p |
| South Wales | 0.0p |
| South West England | 0.0p |
| Yorkshire | 0.0p |
| Southern Scotland | 0.0p |
| Northern Scotland | 0.0p |
Northern Ireland has a separate electricity market and is not covered by these regions.
Context
The price cap since Oct 18
A year of energy at typical consumption, paying by direct debit. This is the benchmark every tariff on this site is measured against, and it is a Great Britain figure rather than a regional one.
The cap peaked at £3,582 in Jan - Mar 2023 and stands at £1,663 for July - Sept 2026.
Show every period
| Period | Cap level |
|---|---|
| July - Sept 2026 | £1,663 |
| Apr - June 26 | £1,477 |
| Jan - Mar 2026 | £1,584 |
| Oct - Dec 2025 | £1,576 |
| July - Sept 2025 | £1,541 |
| Apr - June 25 | £1,655 |
| Jan - Mar 25 | £1,561 |
| Oct - Dec 24 | £1,543 |
| July-Sept 2024 | £1,414 |
| Apr-June 2024 | £1,521 |
| Jan - Mar 2024 | £1,723 |
| Oct - Dec 2023 | £1,641 |
| July-Sept 2023 | £1,766 |
| Apr-June 2023 | £2,762 |
| Jan - Mar 2023 | £3,582 |
| Oct - Dec 2022 | £2,972 |
| 2022 summer | £1,673 |
| 2021/22 winter | £1,093 |
| 2021 summer | £979 |
| 2020/21 winter | £899 |
| 2020 summer | £967 |
| 2019/20 winter | £979 |
| 2019 summer | £1,039 |
| 2018/19 winter | £945 |
Estimate what it would cost
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How EDF Empower Tracker works
The base rate is EDF’s standard variable rate, which moves with the Ofgem price cap — so the tariff reprices when the cap changes, quarterly, rather than daily or half-hourly. This is the point on which EDF’s "Tracker" tariffs differ most from tariffs of the same name elsewhere.
On top of that base, a fixed 10p per kWh discount applies in the early-hours window and a fixed 10p uplift applies across the late-afternoon peak. Because both adjustments are in pence rather than percentages, they are worth proportionally more when the cap is low and less when it is high.
There is no daily standing charge. On a typical tariff the standing charge is the larger part of a small bill, so removing it favours households that use little electricity and matters much less to households that use a lot.
EDF backs the electricity with zero-carbon generation, and there are no exit fees despite the twelve-month agreement.
What you need
- A smart meter, since the discount and uplift windows have to be billed separately
- A twelve-month agreement, with no exit fees
- Electricity only — gas is priced on a separate EDF tariff
- Available across Great Britain, at prices that differ by distribution region
What drives what you pay
- How much you can shift into the three-hour discounted window in the early hours — a narrow target, and the whole of the tariff’s upside
- How much you cannot keep out of the late-afternoon window, where every unit costs 10p more than standard
- Your total consumption, because with no standing charge a light user starts the year several tens of pounds ahead of a standard tariff before using anything
- Ofgem’s price cap, which sets the base rate every quarter
Who it tends to suit
- Low-usage households, for whom the absent standing charge is the biggest single saving available
- Homes with a battery or a timed car charger that can fill up inside the early-hours window
- Households already out or asleep through the late-afternoon peak
- Anyone who wants time-of-use pricing without half-hourly volatility
Who it tends not to suit
- Families cooking and washing through the late afternoon and early evening
- Anyone expecting the daily movement of a wholesale-linked tracker — this is not that tariff
- Households with no way to use electricity in the middle of the night
- Heavy users, where the peak uplift can outweigh both the discount and the missing standing charge
Things to watch
- The discounted window is short and sits in the middle of the night. Capturing it realistically means a timer, a battery or a car charger rather than a change of habit.
- The 10p uplift lands squarely on the hours most households cook and heat in. A home that cannot avoid it will lose more in the peak than it gains overnight.
- Despite the name, this does not track the wholesale market. It tracks the price cap, so it will not fall on a windy weekend the way a wholesale-linked tariff does.
- No standing charge is a real benefit, but it is a fixed-size one. It is worth the most to the smallest users and can be outweighed by the peak uplift in a heavy-using home.
EDF Empower Tracker compared with the alternatives
- Against Octopus Tracker
- The names match and the mechanisms do not. Octopus Tracker follows the wholesale market and reprices every day, so it can fall a long way below the cap or rise above it. Empower Tracker follows the Ofgem price cap and reprices quarterly, with a fixed discount and uplift attached to set hours. If you are comparing the two, you are comparing a market-linked tariff with a cap-linked one, not two versions of the same thing.
- Against EDF Simply Tracker
- The flat sibling. Simply Tracker is the same cap-following base with no time bands at all, a discounted standing charge, and gas available alongside — but it does carry an exit fee. Take Simply Tracker if you cannot use the early hours and want the standing charge discount instead; take Empower if you can.
- Against EDF Standard Variable
- Empower is Standard Variable with the edges bent and the standing charge removed. For a low user who avoids the late afternoon it is clearly better; for a heavy user who cooks at six it is clearly worse. The base rate is identical, so the whole decision is about when you use electricity and how much.
Getting the most out of EDF Empower Tracker
Put something on a timer for the early-hours window
The discount is worth nothing to a sleeping house that uses no electricity. A dishwasher, a washing machine or an immersion heater on a delay turns the window into an actual saving.
Treat the late afternoon as the expensive part of the day
Every unit in that window costs 10p more than standard. Moving one electric-oven meal a day out of it is worth more than anything you can do to the rest of the tariff.
Work out what the missing standing charge is worth to you
It is a fixed saving of roughly the daily charge times 365, whatever you use. Compare that against what the peak uplift will cost you across a year, and the answer decides the tariff.
How to switch to EDF Empower Tracker
- A smart meter is required, and EDF will arrange one if needed — the tariff cannot bill a discounted window without half-hourly data.
- Apply directly through EDF. A domestic switch usually completes within five working days.
- There are no exit fees. If the peak uplift turns out to catch more of your evening than you expected, you can leave without a charge.
Our verdict on EDF Empower Tracker
Empower Tracker is a sharper tariff than its name suggests, and the absent standing charge is the part worth taking seriously — for a genuinely low-usage household it is one of the better deals on the market, before the time bands are even considered.
The name is the problem. This tracks the price cap, not the wholesale market, and anyone arriving from a wholesale-linked tracker will find it does not move the way they expect. Judge it as a standard variable tariff with a night discount, a teatime penalty and no daily charge, because that is what it is.
In its favour
- No standing charge at all
- A clear 10p discount in the early-hours window
- No exit fees despite the twelve-month term
- Backed by zero-carbon electricity
Against it
- 10p uplift across the late-afternoon peak
- Discount window is short and in the middle of the night
- Tracks the price cap, not the wholesale market — the name misleads
- Electricity only
Frequently asked questions
Does this tariff follow wholesale prices?
No. It follows Ofgem’s price cap, which changes quarterly. The discount and uplift are fixed amounts in pence applied at set hours on top of that. A tariff that follows the wholesale market reprices daily or half-hourly; this one does not.
Is there really no standing charge?
EDF publishes a standing charge of zero for this tariff, and has done across every period in its own rate feed. That makes the tariff unusually good value for a low-usage home, where the daily charge is normally the larger part of the bill.
When do the discount and the uplift apply?
The band schedule above shows the current times and prices for your region. The discount runs for three hours in the early hours of the morning; the uplift covers the late-afternoon peak.
Can I get gas on this tariff?
No, it is electricity only. EDF’s Simply Tracker covers both fuels if you want gas priced on the same basis.