Austria — 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 Austria'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 Zone price, €/MWh Difference € Import ÷ consumption
MWh€/MWh€ MWh€/MWh€
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%
September25.7% of hours 1,140,157 400,656 160.47 64,293,594 845,470 158.09 133,663,525 171.10 −69,369,931 74.2%
Total 40,136,848 13,601,678 117.79 1,602,084,901 22,395,530 113.32 2,537,943,050 117.83 −935,858,149 55.8%

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

935,858,149 € for 8,793,851 MWh that stayed in the country works out at 106.42 € per megawatt-hour, in a month that averaged 117.83.

  • Energy that stayed, at the month's average price 1,036,212,481 110.7%
  • What came in arrived above that average −101,006,238 -10.8%
  • What went out left below it 651,905 0.1%

The first line is energy the country needed and got. The other two — 100,354,333 € 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.

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

Germany

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

Month Physical exports MWh €/MWh € Physical imports MWh €/MWh € Difference €
January 99,144 174.88 17,338,824 2,629,153 133.07 349,855,132 −332,516,308
February 116,175 121.92 14,164,629 1,852,617 107.58 199,313,672 −185,149,043
March 271,153 154.89 41,998,635 1,626,480 95.00 154,523,693 −112,525,058
April 370,880 109.56 40,632,002 1,328,403 64.32 85,446,835 −44,814,832
May 601,527 138.97 83,596,613 906,086 47.14 42,713,674 40,882,939
June 720,670 158.77 114,420,067 777,731 59.84 46,537,272 67,882,796
July 167,596 151.21 25,341,848 1,596,664 89.55 142,978,307 −117,636,460
August 143,340 182.06 26,097,046 1,602,769 124.62 199,737,596 −173,640,551
September 17,096 202.66 3,464,507 460,371 147.16 67,746,771 −64,282,264
Total 2,507,580 146.38 367,054,169 12,780,275 100.85 1,288,852,951 −921,798,782

Czechia

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

Month Physical exports MWh €/MWh € Physical imports MWh €/MWh € Difference €
January 0 — 0 1,160,970 139.46 161,903,533 −161,903,533
February 12,273 98.03 1,203,086 582,447 113.26 65,965,465 −64,762,379
March 731 3.89 2,842 813,569 118.60 96,486,100 −96,483,257
April 6,259 -70.18 −439,234 677,852 101.63 68,886,806 −69,326,040
May 6,567 -115.37 −757,652 672,402 117.90 79,273,545 −80,031,198
June 6,547 7.52 49,259 637,129 122.10 77,794,957 −77,745,698
July 457 16.94 7,748 1,126,692 131.50 148,162,969 −148,155,221
August 5 130.87 694 1,118,961 158.26 177,088,747 −177,088,054
September 0 — 0 326,951 171.98 56,230,000 −56,230,000
Total 32,839 2.03 66,742 7,116,973 130.93 931,792,123 −931,725,381

Slovenia

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

Month Physical exports MWh €/MWh € Physical imports MWh €/MWh € Difference €
January 327,093 157.27 51,442,440 38,723 112.99 4,375,203 47,067,237
February 138,285 117.80 16,289,926 105,587 95.63 10,097,283 6,192,643
March 161,591 115.38 18,644,970 148,125 91.12 13,496,905 5,148,065
April 407,003 87.75 35,714,945 54,109 58.83 3,183,061 32,531,884
May 358,264 90.60 32,458,077 69,979 83.33 5,831,140 26,626,936
June 438,601 98.55 43,223,070 37,090 84.11 3,119,676 40,103,394
July 446,549 113.81 50,822,788 29,368 108.99 3,200,702 47,622,085
August 489,523 152.11 74,460,841 54,668 131.13 7,168,782 67,292,059
September 136,557 168.58 23,020,892 10,213 141.25 1,442,591 21,578,301
Total 2,903,465 119.19 346,077,949 547,862 94.76 51,915,344 294,162,605

Hungary

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

Month Physical exports MWh €/MWh € Physical imports MWh €/MWh € Difference €
January 426,869 151.06 64,484,661 13,768 99.64 1,371,865 63,112,796
February 339,679 115.32 39,171,421 22,186 83.85 1,860,342 37,311,079
March 276,201 123.30 34,056,583 130,252 78.28 10,195,465 23,861,118
April 372,154 91.11 33,906,098 59,930 60.23 3,609,471 30,296,627
May 311,638 100.15 31,211,385 47,581 86.07 4,095,316 27,116,069
June 318,997 90.96 29,014,792 98,337 99.25 9,760,089 19,254,703
July 363,360 106.22 38,595,724 76,809 116.26 8,930,178 29,665,547
August 345,077 155.29 53,585,915 97,481 133.49 13,012,575 40,573,340
September 70,198 172.79 12,129,772 31,208 148.56 4,636,232 7,493,540
Total 2,824,172 119.03 336,156,351 577,552 99.51 57,471,535 278,684,817

Italy

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

Month Physical exports MWh €/MWh € Physical imports MWh €/MWh € Difference €
January 352,534 144.12 50,805,767 0 — 0 50,805,767
February 374,844 110.00 41,234,128 0 — 0 41,234,128
March 360,672 112.44 40,553,078 0 — 0 40,553,078
April 383,040 89.39 34,238,665 0 — 0 34,238,665
May 459,822 98.50 45,293,230 0 — 0 45,293,230
June 494,047 103.40 51,085,469 151 382.97 57,637 51,027,832
July 425,719 117.01 49,814,450 0 — 0 49,814,450
August 441,583 149.50 66,016,545 161 121.38 19,543 65,997,002
September 94,932 162.41 15,418,118 0 — 0 15,418,118
Total 3,387,193 116.46 394,459,450 312 247.77 77,180 394,382,270

Switzerland

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

Month Physical exports MWh €/MWh € Physical imports MWh €/MWh € Difference €
January 123,151 97.19 11,968,895 311,559 172.93 53,878,463 −41,909,567
February 104,238 80.91 8,433,467 193,842 127.85 24,783,105 −16,349,639
March 441,779 96.56 42,656,303 40,221 162.21 6,524,203 36,132,100
April 231,785 63.28 14,667,360 104,329 110.52 11,530,654 3,136,706
May 204,525 51.03 10,436,886 243,439 131.23 31,945,780 −21,508,894
June 240,408 57.36 13,790,729 186,058 152.81 28,431,842 −14,641,113
July 303,039 85.42 25,884,360 98,086 148.77 14,592,348 11,292,012
August 215,630 93.55 20,171,934 178,295 182.50 32,539,590 −12,367,656
September 81,874 125.32 10,260,306 16,726 215.71 3,607,932 6,652,374
Total 1,946,429 81.31 158,270,239 1,372,556 151.42 207,833,917 −49,563,678

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.