October 2026
This month’s fuel surcharge
41.5cents per unit
Added to every unit of electricity on bills for October 2026. A domestic customer pays $1.227 a unit in total — $0.812 of base tariff plus this adjustment.
- Price LUCELEC paid for fuel
- EC$16.19
- Base price it is measured against
- EC$8.61
- Gallons burned
- 2,027,944
- Units sold
- 37,055,608
In context
How this month compares
- Change from September 2026
- +5.9
- cents per unit
- A year ago, October 2025
- -2.6
- cents per unit, returned to customers
- Fuel price since then
- +87%
- EC$8.67 to EC$16.19 a gallon
The fuel cost adjustment is a formula, not a discretionary charge: fuel at the price paid, less the same volume at last year’s average price, divided by the units sold. See the working.
The full picture
Electricity rates
The fuel surcharge is one half of what a unit costs. The base tariff is the other, and it is set annually — currently for October 2026.