Austria — physical cross-border flows, 2026

Month by month

All borders together, with consumption for scale.

Month	Consumption, MWh	Physical exports			Physical imports			Zone price, €/MWh	Difference €	Import ÷ consumption
Month	Consumption, MWh	MWh	€/MWh	€	MWh	€/MWh	€	Zone 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%
September34.2% of hours	1,533,540	498,028	165.96	82,653,250	1,088,588	162.29	176,668,040	171.75	−94,014,789	71.0%
Total	40,530,230	13,699,051	118.29	1,620,444,558	22,638,648	114.01	2,580,947,564	118.38	−960,503,006	55.9%

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

960,503,006 € for 8,939,597 MWh that stayed in the country works out at 107.44 € per megawatt-hour, in a month that averaged 118.38.

Energy that stayed, at the month's average price 1,058,225,895 110.2%
What came in arrived above that average −98,905,251 -10.3%
What went out left below it 1,182,362 0.1%

The first line is energy the country needed and got. The other two — 97,722,889 € 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.