What is the best SEG export rate?

6p per kWh, on the rows checked against suppliers' own terms in October 2026. The Ofgem baseline rows in the same file show 12p, which was correct for the scheme year they cover — Scottish Power has since moved SmartGen to 6p and put 12p behind being one of their electricity customers. Every row carries an origin column saying which it is.

What does tied mean on an export tariff?

That the tariff is only available if you also buy your electricity from that supplier. Untied tariffs are open to anyone. Tied rates are often higher, which is a real offer and also a reason to check what the import side costs before treating the export rate as free money.

Can I download the SEG tariff data?

Yes. Ofgem's annual report is Open Government Licence material, so we republish it as a CSV with attribution rather than summarising it. Fifty tariffs, eleven columns, no sign-up.

Are these rates current?

Treat them as a baseline, not a quote. Every row carries an origin column: ofgem-annual means the rate is accurate as Ofgem published it for the scheme year, and rows checked against a supplier's own current terms are marked differently with the date they were checked.

What is a variable tariff mechanism?

Ofgem annotates variable tariffs with how the rate moves — at the supplier's own review, or tracking an external index. A tariff that tracks an index is a different proposition from one a supplier resets when it chooses, and the file says which.

Every Smart Export Guarantee tariff

All 50 SEG tariffs Ofgem recorded for the scheme year, with the rate, whether it is tied to taking your import from the same supplier, and what makes a variable rate move. As a file, not a lead-generation form.

Fifty tariffs, as published, as a file.

Supplier, legal entity, tariff name, rate, tied or untied, rate type, what makes a variable rate move, and the dates it ran. Open Government Licence, so you can use it for anything.

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UK Smart Export Guarantee export tariffs

50 tariffs — supplier, legal entity, tariff, tied or untied, rate in pence per kWh, rate type, variable mechanism, start and end dates, origin and the date we last verified the row.

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What it shows

Open untied SEG export ratesAll 19 tariffs open to anyone, whoever supplies your import.

Baseline figures as Ofgem published them for the scheme year named. Not current quotes — check the supplier’s own terms before switching.

pence per kWh. Source: Ofgem, Smart Export Guarantee Annual Report — SEG Year 5, 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025 · OGL v3.0. The figures · download the data.

The spread is still the story, and it has changed shape. Among tariffs open to anyone the best rate is six times the worst — it was twelve times when Ofgem published, because the best open rate has halved. Switching still costs nothing but the paperwork, so it is still the first thing to do; it just moves less than it used to.

The rates above 6p are all conditional, and the file now says how: import-tied means you must buy your electricity from that supplier, and install-tied means they must have installed your system.

Columns

Column	What it is
`supplier`	The trading name
`supplier_legal_entity`	The licensed entity, where it differs — some suppliers hold several
`tariff`	The tariff name as Ofgem records it
`access`	`open`, `import-tied`, `install-tied` or `unclear` — see below
`segment`	`business` for tariffs a household cannot take
`rate_p_per_kwh`	Rate in pence per kWh
`rate_type`	`fixed` or `variable`
`variable_mechanism`	Ofgem’s own annotation: `supplier review` or `external index`
`started`, `ended`	Dates the tariff ran. `ended` is empty where it was still offered
`origin`	`ofgem-annual` for a baseline row, `verified-page` for one read from the supplier
`verified`	The date the row was last checked
`source_url`	Where a verified row was read from
`note`	The supplier’s own condition, where there is one

The access column is the useful one

open means anyone may take it, whoever supplies their import.

import-tied means it requires that supplier’s own electricity supply.

install-tied means it requires that supplier to have installed your system. This cannot be satisfied retrospectively, and it is where the highest advertised rates in the market now sit. A rate of 15p to 20p that reads like a market price is, for anyone whose panels are already up, not a price they can pay.

unclear means the supplier’s page does not say plainly. We treat those as not open rather than assume, because telling someone a tariff is available when it is not costs them a wasted switch.

Read the origin column

This matters more than any single rate.

A row with origin ofgem-annual is accurate as Ofgem published it for the scheme year named in the file header, and is explicitly not a current quote. Rows checked against a supplier’s own current terms carry a different origin and the date of that check.

We label it this way rather than quietly presenting everything as live, because a tariff table that looks current and is not is worse than one that admits its age.

How it was made

scripts/data/build-seg-baseline.py reads Ofgem’s figures into data/seg-tariffs.yaml; scripts/data/build-downloads.py emits the CSV. A monitor watches Ofgem’s page for change and tells a person to go and read it — it does not parse a number and publish it under our name. A monitor that says “this page changed on Tuesday” costs ten minutes of someone’s attention and cannot be wrong about anything; a scraper that mis-parses a table publishes a wrong number with our byline on it. See how we work.

Sources

Smart Export Guarantee Annual Report — SEG Year 5 Ofgem · Accessed 15 August 2026 · OGL v3.0 Figure 2.1 (untied export tariffs) and Figure 2.2 (tied export tariffs), for the scheme year 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025.

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