Netherlands — 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	11,843,837	4,257,475	105.75	450,210,062	999,266	98.90	98,822,777	107.59	351,387,284	8.4%
February	10,254,408	3,573,681	94.90	339,125,626	1,338,532	91.34	122,263,493	92.95	216,862,133	13.1%
March	10,108,458	2,793,274	81.37	227,302,547	2,398,279	118.70	284,678,398	98.90	−57,375,851	23.7%
April	9,087,065	3,011,232	70.95	213,634,835	2,042,962	105.91	216,372,105	84.59	−2,737,271	22.5%
May	9,207,737	2,928,142	87.99	257,648,312	1,860,741	103.17	191,975,570	94.91	65,672,742	20.2%
June	9,367,471	2,788,516	99.32	276,961,847	1,337,805	116.03	155,230,714	110.08	121,731,133	14.3%
July	9,547,385	3,122,642	103.00	321,628,707	1,565,093	108.39	169,636,941	105.86	151,991,766	16.4%
August	6,895,240	3,867,074	122.55	473,891,610	1,081,387	114.46	123,770,283	125.41	350,121,327	15.7%
September34.9% of hours	2,201,802	987,688	140.82	139,087,900	509,725	147.25	75,054,528	146.03	64,033,372	23.2%
Total	78,513,404	27,329,724	98.77	2,699,491,446	13,133,791	109.47	1,437,804,810	103.14	1,261,686,636	16.7%

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

1,261,686,636 € for 14,195,934 MWh that stayed in the country works out at 88.88 € per megawatt-hour, in a month that averaged 103.14.

Energy that stayed, at the month's average price −1,464,179,011 116.0%
What came in arrived above that average 83,176,014 -6.6%
What went out left below it 119,316,361 -9.5%

The first line is energy the country needed and got. The other two — 202,492,375 € 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.