What Octopus pays for the electricity your panels send back, tariff by tariff, who is allowed each one, and how Octopus says you apply. Read from Octopus's own pages, with how it compares to every other supplier we track. Nobody is going to ring you.
Figures on this page last checked 28 September 2026. Each carries its own receipt with its own date.
Rates as of 28 September 2026. Read from Octopus's own pages (octopus.energy/smart/outgoing and octopus.energy/smart/smart-export-guarantee). If a rate here disagrees with Octopus's page today, Octopus's page wins.
Octopus runs four export tariffs. Three of them are for people who buy their electricity from Octopus, and one, the Octopus SEG tariff, is for people who want to keep another supplier. Octopus's own SEG page says that second group misses out on the better rates, which is honest of it, and the table below shows by how much.
| Tariff | Rate | Who can get it | Fixed or variable | Group | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEG | 4.1p/kWh | Anyone | Fixed | Open to anyone | 2026-09-28 |
| Prime Outgoing Octopus | 16p/kWh from 4pm to 7pm, 9p/kWh the rest of the day | Octopus electricity customers with solar and a home battery | Fixed, 12 months, time-of-use | For that supplier's electricity customers | 2026-09-28 |
| Outgoing Octopus | 12p/kWh | Octopus electricity customers | Variable | For that supplier's electricity customers | 2026-09-28 |
| Agile Outgoing Octopus | Wholesale-linked, no fixed figure | Octopus electricity customers with storage | Variable half-hourly, 12-month term | For that supplier's electricity customers | 2026-09-28 |
4.1p/kWh
pence per kWh exported
The source page carries no date. Read 28 September 2026.
Source: Octopus Energy · checked 2026-09-28 · JSON
16p/kWh from 4pm to 7pm, 9p/kWh the rest of the day
pence per kWh exported
The source page carries no date. Read 28 September 2026.
Source: Octopus Energy · checked 2026-09-28 · JSON
12p/kWh
pence per kWh exported
The source page carries no date. Read 28 September 2026.
Source: Octopus Energy · checked 2026-09-28 · JSON
Wholesale-linked, no fixed figure
pence per kWh exported
The source page carries no date. Read 28 September 2026.
Source: Octopus Energy · checked 2026-09-28 · JSON
We keep every supplier's export rates in one table, each read from that supplier's own page. Here is where Octopus's rates sit in it, group by group, because a rate only means something against the others you could actually have.
The ranks and the differences in pence are our comparison from the table as we last read it, not figures Octopus publishes. Rows paying the same rate share a place. Time-of-use and wholesale-linked tariffs anywhere in the table are left out of the ranking, because they have no single rate to rank. Here that means Prime Outgoing Octopus and Agile Outgoing Octopus. The rate open to anyone runs from 2p/kWh to 13p/kWh across the whole table.
As Octopus's own pages put it, in our words:
You apply on Octopus's own site. We do not take applications, we do not ask for your details, and nobody pays us for sending you there.
Four export tariffs: Outgoing Octopus, Prime Outgoing Octopus and Agile Outgoing Octopus for Octopus electricity customers, and the Octopus SEG tariff for people who buy their electricity elsewhere
supplier page summary
The source page carries no date. Read 28 September 2026.
Source: Octopus Energy · checked 2026-09-28 · JSON
Ofgem lists Octopus Energy Limited as a mandatory SEG licensee for 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027. Ofgem publishes which suppliers have told it they are taking part in the Smart Export Guarantee each year. The big ones have no choice: a supplier with enough household customers must offer a tariff. Smaller ones can volunteer.
Mandatory SEG licensees: British Gas Trading Limited; E (Gas and Electricity) Ltd; E.ON Next Energy Limited; EDF Energy Customers Limited; Electricity Plus Supply Limited (trading as Utility Warehouse); Foxglove Energy Supply Limited; Fuse Energy Supply Limited; Octopus Energy Limited; OVO Electricity Ltd; ScottishPower Energy Retail Limited; So Energy Trading Limited; Utilita Energy Limited. Voluntary: Pozitive Energy Ltd; Ruby Electricity Ltd; Smart Pay Energy Ltd; Voltx Power Ltd
suppliers that told Ofgem they are SEG licensees for the SEG year
Covers 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027.
Ofgem's rule is that your export payments, your electricity supply and your gas supply can each be with a different company. So you can take an open-to-anyone export tariff from one supplier and keep buying your electricity from another. The catch is in the table: the higher rates are mostly reserved for that supplier's own customers, so switching your export alone gets you the open tier.
You can use one company for export payments and another for your electricity supply
scheme rule
The source page carries no date. Read 28 September 2026.
The same page for other suppliers: ScottishPower, British Gas, EDF and E.ON Next.
It depends which Octopus export tariff you are on. The Octopus SEG tariff, open to people who buy their electricity elsewhere, pays 4.1p/kWh. Outgoing Octopus, for Octopus electricity customers, pays 12p/kWh. Prime Outgoing Octopus pays 16p/kWh from 4pm to 7pm, 9p/kWh the rest of the day. Agile Outgoing Octopus has no single figure: it follows the wholesale price half hour by half hour.
Yes. Octopus's page says you need to be an Octopus Energy customer, and that Outgoing Octopus pairs only with certain import tariffs. If you want to keep your current supplier, the Octopus SEG tariff at 4.1p/kWh is the Octopus rate open to you.
Variable. Octopus's page says the rate can change and that it gives notice before it does. Prime Outgoing Octopus and Agile Outgoing Octopus are 12-month fixed-term tariffs with a locked-in rate formula and no exit fees, and the Octopus SEG tariff is described as fixed.
Octopus breaks it into steps: about 2 days for its own processing, 1 to 4 weeks for the network operator to create your export meter number, then about 5 days to enrol it. The network operator's step is the slow one, and Octopus says it cannot speed it up.
Not if you started receiving Feed-in Tariff payments in the last 12 months, according to Octopus's Outgoing page. Its SEG page adds that you cannot be paid a SEG tariff while you are receiving export payments under the Feed-in Tariff.