German Electricity Imports and Exports per Country and per Type, Q1 2026

Analysis of Germany's electricity imports and exports in the first quarter of 2026 based on the methods discussed in the conference proceedings article "Where do Germany's electricity imports come from?", presented at the 21st International Conference on the European Energy Market Lisbon, 27-29 May 2025, Portugal (free preprint available here). Each file contains total electricity imports (exports) of the Germany-Luxembourg bidding zone for the first three months of 2026 either per origin (destination) bidding zone or per generation technology, based on different measures. It should be emphasized that, as discussed in the article above, there is no uniquely correct measure for the amount or origin/type of electricity imports, but rather different methods based on different interpretations, yielding potentially very different results. Abbreviations used for the different measures*:CFT: Commercial flows totalNetted CFT: Netted commercial flows totalPooled Net CFT: Pooled net commercial imports totalPooled Net Phys.: Pooled net physical importsDC Flow Tracing: Direct coupling flow tracingAC Flow Tracing: Aggregated coupling flow tracing All results are given in TWh. Measures are defined in the supplementary material of the article, published in the Leibniz Data Manager in NFDI4Energy. Additional information on the flow tracing method can be found in Schäfer et al. (2020) (free preprint, explanatory video). *Note that the Pooled Netted CFT method discussed in the article has been deprecated and is not included in this dataset