Albania — physical cross-border flows, 2026

Every month of the year, every border, in energy and in money. Flows are measured; each megawatt-hour is valued at Albania's own day-ahead price for the quarter-hour it actually crossed in.

Month by month

All borders together, with consumption for scale.

Month Consumption, MWh Physical exports Physical imports Average price, €/MWh Difference € Import ÷ consumption
MWh€/MWh€ MWh€/MWh€
January 851,388 123,591 86.78 10,725,119 5,087 103.81 528,118 93.54 10,197,001 0.6%
February 698,988 134,542 55.73 7,498,302 3,731 55.98 208,846 58.87 7,289,456 0.5%
March 691,081 109,877 95.20 10,460,325 17,646 90.29 1,593,331 96.90 8,866,994 2.6%
April 574,635 58,065 89.94 5,222,632 9,075 64.78 587,867 84.57 4,634,766 1.6%
May 566,118 106,019 90.47 9,591,069 3,196 78.42 250,640 89.60 9,340,429 0.6%
June 620,998 73,208 89.14 6,525,668 20,723 77.24 1,600,547 91.55 4,925,121 3.3%
July 726,130 49,506 105.75 5,235,069 13,028 89.67 1,168,258 112.24 4,066,811 1.8%
August 833,522 58,892 132.16 7,783,373 39,384 132.79 5,229,985 146.88 2,553,388 4.7%
September34.9% of hours 262,654 9,979 149.94 1,496,274 27,957 152.54 4,264,592 171.99 −2,768,319 10.6%
Total 5,825,514 723,679 89.18 64,537,832 139,826 110.37 15,432,184 101.80 49,105,647 2.4%

Consumption is measured separately, as the hourly average power summed over the month — not by adding up readings, since sources publish at different rates. The last column puts imports next to it for scale; it is not a dependency figure, because part of what enters passes straight through to another neighbour.

Where the difference comes from

49,105,647 € for 583,853 MWh that stayed in the country works out at 84.11 € per megawatt-hour, in a month that averaged 101.80.

  • Energy that stayed, at the month's average price −59,435,778 121.0%
  • What came in arrived above that average 1,197,998 -2.4%
  • What went out left below it 9,132,133 -18.6%

The first line is energy the country needed and got. The other two — 10,330,130 € together — come not from how much moved but from when: cheap hours to sell in, expensive hours to buy in. That is the price of a timing mismatch, not a loss.

Official validation

The measured physical flow, checked against ANRE's published commercial trade.

Month Physical net, MWh Commercial net, MWh Difference, MWh Status
January ——— AWAITING OFFICIAL ANRE DATA
February ——— AWAITING OFFICIAL ANRE DATA
March ——— AWAITING OFFICIAL ANRE DATA
April ——— AWAITING OFFICIAL ANRE DATA
May ——— AWAITING OFFICIAL ANRE DATA
June ——— AWAITING OFFICIAL ANRE DATA
July ——— AWAITING OFFICIAL ANRE DATA
August ——— AWAITING OFFICIAL ANRE DATA
September ——— AWAITING OFFICIAL ANRE DATA

Gross volumes differ by design: the official indicators include transits, and a transit is counted once entering and once leaving, while a physical border sees it only once. Net figures converge, because transits cancel out — which is why the comparison is made on the net.

The percentage relates the difference to the month's commercial net. In a month with a small net, the same difference in MWh yields a larger percentage — which is why the difference is always shown in MWh as well.

ANRE publishes these exchanges as a physical balance in GWh. It publishes no import or export value and no average price per direction, so no money comparison is possible.

Physical cross-border flows and commercial electricity trades measure different phenomena. ANRE data is shown as an independent official benchmark and should not be interpreted as an exact reconciliation.

Border by border

Montenegro

Month by month, Albania's side of this border.

Month Physical exports MWh €/MWh € Physical imports MWh €/MWh € Difference €
January 44,020 72.31 3,183,125 0 — 0 3,183,125
February 50,595 49.07 2,482,928 0 — 0 2,482,928
March 63,560 81.80 5,198,931 0 — 0 5,198,931
April 27,075 75.44 2,042,559 0 — 0 2,042,559
May 58,253 85.89 5,003,270 0 — 0 5,003,270
June 54,193 83.92 4,548,047 0 — 0 4,548,047
July 39,418 96.20 3,792,144 0 — 0 3,792,144
August 50,842 124.97 6,353,584 0 — 0 6,353,584
September 8,060 138.29 1,114,678 4,572 177.28 810,483 304,195
Total 396,017 85.15 33,719,267 4,572 177.28 810,483 32,908,784

Kosovo

Month by month, Albania's side of this border.

Month Physical exports MWh €/MWh € Physical imports MWh €/MWh € Difference €
January 75,004 97.32 7,299,314 678 66.69 45,196 7,254,119
February 71,174 60.40 4,298,876 0 — 0 4,298,876
March 41,893 114.28 4,787,599 947 7.88 7,458 4,780,141
April 20,300 111.27 2,258,783 4,841 47.65 230,677 2,028,106
May 43,979 98.34 4,324,707 64 8.43 542 4,324,165
June 14,456 116.69 1,686,844 2,732 64.17 175,292 1,511,553
July 5,197 164.02 852,367 13,028 89.67 1,168,258 −315,891
August 5,268 186.97 985,029 9,873 131.82 1,301,491 −316,462
September 262 254.04 66,656 8,270 156.00 1,290,048 −1,223,393
Total 277,534 95.70 26,560,175 40,432 104.35 4,218,961 22,341,213

Greece

Month by month, Albania's side of this border.

Month Physical exports MWh €/MWh € Physical imports MWh €/MWh € Difference €
January 4,566 53.14 242,680 4,410 109.52 482,922 −240,242
February 12,773 56.10 716,498 3,731 55.98 208,846 507,652
March 4,424 107.11 473,795 16,699 94.97 1,585,873 −1,112,078
April 10,690 86.18 921,290 4,234 84.37 357,190 564,101
May 3,787 69.48 263,092 3,132 79.86 250,098 12,994
June 4,560 63.77 290,776 17,991 79.22 1,425,255 −1,134,479
July 4,891 120.74 590,558 0 — 0 590,558
August 2,781 159.95 444,760 29,511 133.12 3,928,494 −3,483,734
September 1,657 190.11 314,940 15,115 143.17 2,164,061 −1,849,121
Total 50,128 84.95 4,258,390 94,822 109.71 10,402,741 −6,144,350

Method

Not an invoice. Cross-border electricity is not sold country to country: the markets are coupled and the physical flow is the outcome of a shared auction. These figures value the measured flow at this zone's own day-ahead price, so both directions can be compared on the same scale.

Flows are measured, quarter-hour by quarter-hour; hourly borders are spread across the four quarters they cover, so every megawatt-hour meets the price that was actually in force. Energy entering the country is not the same as energy consumed here — some of it passes through.

A country between two others carries energy that is neither produced nor consumed there. Energy entering is not energy used.