Electricity prices in Kosovo today
The wholesale day-ahead price in Kosovo is €179.40 per MWh right now, or €0.1794 per kWh. Today's average is €292.80/MWh, −€29.78 against yesterday, and €58.68 above the European average of €234.12/MWh.
- Average today
- €292.80
- /MWh
- Lowest
- €179.40
- /MWh at 03:00
- Highest
- €455.00
- /MWh at 18:00
- In €/kWh
- €0.2928
- /kWh wholesale only
Price for each interval, 7 November 2026
24 of 24 intervals published at 60-minute resolution.
Cheapest electricity hours today
The three cheapest intervals in Kosovo today average €194.80/MWh, €98.00 below the day's average of €292.80. The lowest of them is €179.40/MWh at 03:00. Over the last seven days the cheapest hour in Kosovo has typically been around 04:00. That is demand, not solar: consumption collapses overnight while hydro and nuclear keep running, which is the shape of a northern market rather than a sunny one.
- 03:00 – 04:00€179.40/MWh
- 11:00 – 12:00€200.00/MWh
- 12:00 – 13:00€205.00/MWh
When is electricity most expensive?
The three most expensive intervals average €431.67/MWh, €138.87 above the day's average. The highest is €455.00/MWh at 18:00. The peak has typically been around 18:00 over the last seven days. It is the hour solar output has fallen but demand has not, which is when gas sets the price.
- 18:00 – 19:00€455.00/MWh
- 17:00 – 18:00€420.00/MWh
- 16:00 – 17:00€420.00/MWh
How Kosovo compares with the rest of Europe
Kosovo is averaging €292.80/MWh today against a European average of €234.12/MWh — €58.68 more expensive. The cheapest zone in Europe today is north-central Sweden (SE2) at €3.54/MWh, and the most expensive Ireland and Northern Ireland at €453.89. Both are the same market, priced differently because the lines between them are full.
More for Kosovo
ALPEX prices
The day-ahead price for Kosovo is set in the daily auction run by ALPEX, not here. We read the result from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform, so the figure on this page is the one that auction cleared.
About this market
Kosovo generates nearly all of its electricity from two ageing lignite plants and has among the most carbon-intensive power in Europe. It is the most recent European market to start publishing a day-ahead price — February 2024 — and sits in the expensive third at €113/MWh.
Method and source
- Source: ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.
- Market: day-ahead auction. Zone: XK. Timezone: Europe/Belgrade.
- The daily average is the arithmetic mean of every published interval of the local day, not weighted by volume.
- This is a wholesale price. Network charges, levies, taxes and supplier margin are not included, and a household tariff is typically several times higher.