Austria — physical cross-border flows, 2026

Month by month

All borders together, with consumption for scale.

Month	Consumption, MWh	Physical exports			Physical imports			Average price, €/MWh	Difference €	Import ÷ consumption
Month	Consumption, MWh	MWh	€/MWh	€	MWh	€/MWh	€	Average price, €/MWh	Difference €	Import ÷ consumption
January	6,225,881	1,328,792	147.53	196,040,587	4,154,174	137.54	571,384,196	141.44	−375,343,609	66.7%
February	5,288,663	1,085,494	111.01	120,496,657	2,756,680	109.56	302,019,868	109.19	−181,523,211	52.1%
March	5,180,364	1,512,127	117.66	177,912,411	2,758,648	101.94	281,226,366	112.38	−103,313,955	53.3%
April	4,532,989	1,771,121	89.62	158,719,836	2,224,623	77.61	172,656,828	86.65	−13,936,991	49.1%
May	4,315,021	1,942,342	104.12	202,238,538	1,939,487	84.49	163,859,456	99.98	38,379,082	44.9%
June	4,404,346	2,219,269	113.36	251,583,387	1,736,495	95.42	165,701,473	106.72	85,881,914	39.4%
July	4,536,232	1,706,719	111.60	190,466,917	2,927,619	108.57	317,864,504	117.22	−127,397,587	64.5%
August	4,513,195	1,635,159	146.98	240,332,974	3,052,336	140.73	429,566,834	148.06	−189,233,859	67.6%
September95.1% of hours	4,264,004	1,367,807	173.71	237,603,317	2,812,086	166.56	468,383,871	173.66	−230,780,553	65.9%
October88.6% of hours	4,223,626	1,575,743	216.60	341,310,825	2,869,822	210.82	605,018,693	213.68	−263,707,868	67.9%
Total	47,484,321	16,144,573	131.11	2,116,705,449	27,231,967	127.71	3,477,682,088	130.09	−1,360,976,639	57.3%

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

1,360,976,639 € for 11,087,395 MWh that stayed in the country works out at 122.75 € per megawatt-hour, in a month that averaged 130.09.

Energy that stayed, at the month's average price 1,442,392,541 106.0%
What came in arrived above that average −65,006,531 -4.8%
What went out left below it −16,409,371 -1.2%

The first line is energy the country needed and got. The other two — 81,415,902 € 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
October	—	—	—	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.