Electricity prices in Montenegro today
The wholesale day-ahead price in Montenegro is €247.08 per MWh right now, or €0.2471 per kWh. Today's average is €279.04/MWh, −€33.83 against yesterday, and €44.92 above the European average of €234.12/MWh.
- Average today
- €279.04
- /MWh
- Lowest
- €230.07
- /MWh at 12:00
- Highest
- €345.00
- /MWh at 18:00
- In €/kWh
- €0.2790
- /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 Montenegro today average €232.69/MWh, €46.35 below the day's average of €279.04. The lowest of them is €230.07/MWh at 12:00. Over the last seven days the cheapest hour in Montenegro has typically been around 03:00. 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.
- 12:00 – 13:00€230.07/MWh
- 11:00 – 12:00€234.00/MWh
- 13:00 – 14:00€234.00/MWh
When is electricity most expensive?
The three most expensive intervals average €338.33/MWh, €59.29 above the day's average. The highest is €345.00/MWh at 18:00. The peak has typically been around 17:00 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€345.00/MWh
- 19:00 – 20:00€335.00/MWh
- 17:00 – 18:00€335.00/MWh
How Montenegro compares with the rest of Europe
Montenegro is averaging €279.04/MWh today against a European average of €234.12/MWh — €44.92 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 Montenegro
MEPX prices
The day-ahead price for Montenegro is set in the daily auction run by MEPX, 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
Montenegro is small, hydro-heavy, and connected to Italy by a subsea cable that makes it a transit point between the Balkans and the Italian market. Its day-ahead prices have been published since April 2023 and have never once gone below zero — a market this tight has no surplus to give away.
Method and source
- Source: ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.
- Market: day-ahead auction. Zone: ME. Timezone: Europe/Podgorica.
- 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.