Lithuania — 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 Lithuania'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 1,413,110 152,565 124.04 18,924,602 701,461 163.09 114,399,442 152.46 −95,474,840 49.6%
February 1,276,164 82,967 138.85 11,519,596 620,482 164.91 102,326,710 155.47 −90,807,115 48.6%
March 973,265 239,061 62.75 15,000,092 506,564 92.14 46,676,459 82.07 −31,676,367 52.0%
April 864,254 323,015 43.94 14,192,609 342,925 70.20 24,074,745 58.32 −9,882,135 39.7%
May 925,687 295,940 66.61 19,713,573 370,488 89.03 32,983,237 82.21 −13,269,664 40.0%
June 944,129 282,651 78.09 22,071,079 431,196 96.61 41,659,066 93.71 −19,587,988 45.7%
July 972,195 266,635 60.28 16,072,454 372,925 83.74 31,228,530 75.86 −15,156,075 38.4%
August 975,493 235,224 63.83 15,015,461 378,409 93.96 35,553,502 79.84 −20,538,041 38.8%
September26.4% of hours 259,174 61,524 75.32 4,633,904 74,499 97.34 7,251,716 85.84 −2,617,811 28.7%
Total 8,603,471 1,939,582 70.71 137,143,370 3,798,947 114.81 436,153,407 102.59 −299,010,036 44.2%

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

299,010,036 € for 1,859,366 MWh that stayed in the country works out at 160.81 € per megawatt-hour, in a month that averaged 102.59.

  • Energy that stayed, at the month's average price 190,746,411 63.8%
  • What came in arrived above that average 46,431,476 15.5%
  • What went out left below it 61,832,150 20.7%

The first line is energy the country needed and got. The other two — 108,263,625 € 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

Sweden

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

Month Physical exports MWh €/MWh € Physical imports MWh €/MWh € Difference €
January 4,362 90.98 396,835 459,956 159.92 73,557,889 −73,161,055
February 6,234 86.76 540,873 391,494 165.90 64,950,332 −64,409,460
March 141,422 60.02 8,487,595 120,222 93.24 11,209,111 −2,721,517
April 187,575 39.37 7,384,102 130,941 78.13 10,230,812 −2,846,710
May 158,243 75.02 11,870,973 128,488 76.30 9,804,183 2,066,790
June 132,616 84.37 11,189,252 196,113 88.16 17,288,723 −6,099,471
July 122,800 68.84 8,453,688 145,700 75.77 11,039,403 −2,585,714
August 98,557 64.78 6,384,557 227,026 90.10 20,454,890 −14,070,333
September 19,869 73.58 1,462,012 43,885 96.66 4,242,027 −2,780,015
Total 871,676 64.44 56,169,887 1,843,824 120.82 222,777,372 −166,607,485

Latvia

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

Month Physical exports MWh €/MWh € Physical imports MWh €/MWh € Difference €
January 85,014 108.13 9,192,159 204,604 171.07 35,002,033 −25,809,874
February 41,562 162.43 6,751,121 174,206 161.26 28,093,185 −21,342,064
March 28,800 36.44 1,049,481 360,673 92.69 33,431,176 −32,381,694
April 66,062 35.11 2,319,612 189,226 68.78 13,014,903 −10,695,291
May 62,902 20.70 1,302,234 216,440 100.13 21,673,011 −20,370,777
June 75,393 46.53 3,508,183 208,419 107.23 22,349,454 −18,841,271
July 52,633 11.71 616,426 208,001 91.60 19,051,987 −18,435,561
August 39,142 31.42 1,229,879 131,703 104.02 13,699,760 −12,469,881
September 16,955 51.06 865,666 25,668 103.09 2,646,169 −1,780,503
Total 468,463 57.28 26,834,762 1,718,939 109.93 188,961,678 −162,126,916

Poland

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

Month Physical exports MWh €/MWh € Physical imports MWh €/MWh € Difference €
January 63,190 147.74 9,335,609 36,901 158.25 5,839,519 3,496,089
February 35,170 120.20 4,227,602 54,782 169.46 9,283,193 −5,055,591
March 68,839 79.36 5,463,015 25,669 79.32 2,036,172 3,426,844
April 69,378 64.70 4,488,895 22,758 36.43 829,030 3,659,866
May 74,795 87.44 6,540,366 25,559 58.92 1,506,043 5,034,323
June 74,642 98.79 7,373,643 26,665 75.79 2,020,889 5,352,754
July 91,202 76.78 7,002,340 19,224 59.15 1,137,140 5,865,200
August 97,526 75.89 7,401,025 19,681 71.08 1,398,852 6,002,173
September 24,700 93.37 2,306,226 4,947 73.49 363,519 1,942,707
Total 599,442 90.32 54,138,721 236,185 103.37 24,414,357 29,724,365

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.