Poland — 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 Poland'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 15,896,403 1,725,605 126.06 217,528,472 2,734,289 149.99 410,117,352 143.26 −192,588,880 17.2%
February 14,290,210 904,132 108.96 98,512,619 2,353,110 120.21 282,862,586 115.73 −184,349,967 16.5%
March 13,684,999 1,741,284 92.13 160,422,080 1,414,230 114.75 162,275,953 104.63 −1,853,872 10.3%
April 12,926,904 1,597,365 65.30 104,310,839 1,210,141 102.91 124,538,636 83.03 −20,227,797 9.4%
May 12,671,312 1,430,594 85.18 121,864,924 1,385,499 118.47 164,144,147 101.87 −42,279,223 10.9%
June 12,504,889 1,332,047 100.54 133,930,371 1,448,550 118.81 172,097,704 114.43 −38,167,333 11.6%
July 12,711,494 1,398,797 100.94 141,198,358 1,663,601 124.57 207,229,367 112.10 −66,031,008 13.1%
August 12,605,920 1,682,318 112.24 188,823,569 1,685,217 156.83 264,289,540 134.40 −75,465,971 13.4%
September26.0% of hours 3,209,249 385,448 117.72 45,375,711 412,695 155.88 64,332,727 140.65 −18,957,016 12.9%
Total 110,501,379 12,197,591 99.36 1,211,966,945 14,307,332 129.44 1,851,888,012 115.19 −639,921,067 12.9%

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

639,921,067 € for 2,109,741 MWh that stayed in the country works out at 303.32 € per megawatt-hour, in a month that averaged 115.19.

  • Energy that stayed, at the month's average price 243,021,320 38.0%
  • What came in arrived above that average 203,825,003 31.9%
  • What went out left below it 193,074,744 30.2%

The first line is energy the country needed and got. The other two — 396,899,747 € 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, Poland's side of this border.

Month Physical exports MWh €/MWh Physical imports MWh €/MWh Difference €
January 16,259 135.05 2,195,852 2,327,819 148.64 346,017,635 −343,821,783
February 23,377 39.95 933,854 2,109,789 119.36 251,834,297 −250,900,443
March 415,549 77.21 32,084,402 1,337,102 113.87 152,257,887 −120,173,485
April 335,434 41.98 14,080,657 1,112,582 101.51 112,933,451 −98,852,794
May 305,973 85.56 26,179,702 1,038,016 114.29 118,629,735 −92,450,033
June 278,957 110.58 30,846,445 1,155,113 111.71 129,037,420 −98,190,975
July 177,244 101.56 18,001,617 1,308,784 120.74 158,021,714 −140,020,096
August 317,565 100.46 31,901,631 1,406,297 154.95 217,902,671 −186,001,039
September 38,309 102.89 3,941,733 352,307 153.80 54,185,569 −50,243,837
Total 1,908,668 83.91 160,165,894 12,147,810 126.84 1,540,820,379 −1,380,654,485

Czechia

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

Month Physical exports MWh €/MWh Physical imports MWh €/MWh Difference €
January 778,326 120.42 93,725,838 6,472 239.53 1,550,332 92,175,506
February 307,076 102.21 31,386,603 104,537 135.60 14,175,150 17,211,453
March 983,775 95.17 93,629,968 7,286 181.62 1,323,388 92,306,580
April 772,187 72.12 55,692,148 13,962 166.63 2,326,594 53,365,555
May 656,532 93.73 61,536,939 19,459 185.70 3,613,488 57,923,451
June 609,641 104.08 63,450,222 23,462 173.40 4,068,351 59,381,871
July 738,618 101.58 75,027,815 16,672 205.85 3,431,983 71,595,832
August 818,337 117.11 95,833,456 12,250 259.72 3,181,591 92,651,865
September 210,540 123.28 25,955,346 895 351.16 314,458 25,640,888
Total 5,875,033 101.49 596,238,336 204,997 165.78 33,985,334 562,253,002

Slovakia

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

Month Physical exports MWh €/MWh Physical imports MWh €/MWh Difference €
January 653,956 130.39 85,266,631 0 217.38 43 85,266,588
February 304,902 111.74 34,069,146 20,019 120.15 2,405,287 31,663,859
March 96,404 99.28 9,570,898 112 64.15 7,207 9,563,690
April 239,557 68.52 16,413,955 1,720 157.21 270,418 16,143,537
May 260,255 85.29 22,197,932 9,818 173.06 1,699,121 20,498,811
June 296,597 101.72 30,170,625 15,586 194.63 3,033,527 27,137,098
July 389,941 104.62 40,794,885 7,019 170.25 1,194,942 39,599,943
August 401,932 117.27 47,133,154 9,931 262.23 2,604,173 44,528,982
September 95,251 120.97 11,522,411 1,508 328.82 495,921 11,026,490
Total 2,738,797 108.49 297,139,637 65,714 178.21 11,710,640 285,428,997

Sweden

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

Month Physical exports MWh €/MWh Physical imports MWh €/MWh Difference €
January 16,689 70.51 1,176,791 336,028 155.68 52,311,562 −51,134,772
February 31,214 136.95 4,274,855 80,269 124.15 9,965,348 −5,690,493
March 2 33.12 53 0 0 53
April 3,294 4.68 15,409 6,455 124.18 801,644 −786,235
May 70,653 18.15 1,282,427 199,130 131.85 26,254,616 −24,972,188
June 70,104 56.97 3,993,499 138,069 152.41 21,043,214 −17,049,715
July 23,249 47.80 1,111,314 210,578 138.35 29,133,736 −28,022,421
August 41,999 45.87 1,926,517 126,783 166.43 21,100,781 −19,174,264
September 16,332 49.65 810,946 23,339 184.58 4,307,808 −3,496,862
Total 273,536 53.35 14,591,810 1,120,652 147.16 164,918,708 −150,326,898

Ukraine

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

Month Physical exports MWh €/MWh Physical imports MWh €/MWh Difference €
January 223,513 137.07 30,635,803 757 171.04 129,471 30,506,332
February 182,659 118.39 21,624,240 3,355 100.19 336,150 21,288,090
March 220,053 107.21 23,592,896 828 64.54 53,457 23,539,439
April 224,135 79.10 17,728,364 5,994 73.22 438,874 17,289,490
May 111,622 83.12 9,277,523 44,264 103.78 4,593,802 4,683,721
June 49,929 70.06 3,497,843 41,805 118.72 4,962,907 −1,465,065
July 50,674 102.02 5,169,888 29,188 125.62 3,666,527 1,503,361
August 82,780 130.26 10,783,278 32,538 133.98 4,359,603 6,423,676
September 20,102 137.42 2,762,428 10,508 121.42 1,275,909 1,486,519
Total 1,165,465 107.32 125,072,264 169,238 117.09 19,816,700 105,255,563

Lithuania

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

Month Physical exports MWh €/MWh Physical imports MWh €/MWh Difference €
January 36,861 122.83 4,527,557 63,212 159.91 10,108,308 −5,580,751
February 54,904 113.36 6,223,922 35,141 117.99 4,146,355 2,077,567
March 25,501 60.54 1,543,864 68,901 125.31 8,634,013 −7,090,149
April 22,758 16.71 380,306 69,427 111.88 7,767,655 −7,387,349
May 25,559 54.40 1,390,401 74,811 125.03 9,353,384 −7,962,983
June 26,818 73.52 1,971,737 74,514 133.56 9,952,285 −7,980,548
July 19,070 57.31 1,092,839 91,360 128.95 11,780,465 −10,687,626
August 19,705 63.21 1,245,532 97,417 155.42 15,140,722 −13,895,190
September 4,914 77.91 382,847 24,138 155.48 3,753,063 −3,370,216
Total 236,091 79.46 18,759,004 598,922 134.64 80,636,251 −61,877,247

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.