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Humbjet në rrjet mbi një përkufizim të vetëm që nga 2011, intensiteti energjetik sipas treguesit zyrtar të Eurostat-it, dhe kërkesa për banor.

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Fig. 12Network losses, 2011–2024Eurostat — energy balance (nrg_bal_c) · 2011–2024
Coverage & methodWestern Balkans · Published annual values; no interpolation
Official data
08152330%20152020Albania17.3% · 2024 3.3 pts since 2011North Macedonia14.1% · 2024Montenegro13.9% · 2024Kosovo13.7% · 2024Serbia10.5% · 2024 4.7 pts since 2011Bosnia & Herz.9.4% · 2024

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Serbia cut losses from 15.2% to 10.5% across this period. Albania moved the other way, from 14.0% to 17.3%. Two neighbouring systems, one definition, one source, opposite directions. Kosovo has improved only slightly, from 15.1% to 13.7%.

Source: Eurostat — energy balance (nrg_bal_c) (Eurostat open data). The percentage is FlowOps's own calculation — distribution losses divided by transformation output plus imports minus exports, all in GWh from Eurostat — not a ratio Eurostat itself publishes; includes technical loss and, in several of these systems, unbilled consumption. Each series runs to its own last published year, marked on the chart. Between full data refreshes, FlowOps automated monitoring re-confirms this against Eurostat — most recently 1 Sept 2026.

Electricity network losses as a percentage of output, by country and year.
CountryYearLosses, percent of output
Kosovo201115.1
Kosovo201215.2
Kosovo201314.2
Kosovo201413.8
Kosovo201516
Kosovo201621.4
Kosovo201721
Kosovo201818.6
Kosovo201918
Kosovo202014.8
Kosovo202113.7
Kosovo202211.5
Kosovo202310.6
Kosovo202413.7
Albania201114
Albania201215.4
Albania201321
Albania201414.4
Albania201517.1
Albania201625.9
Albania201717.1
Albania201814.6
Albania201913.9
Albania202012
Albania202116.1
Albania202212.1
Albania202313.8
Albania202417.3
North Macedonia201114.7
North Macedonia201214.5
North Macedonia201313.5
North Macedonia201412.8
North Macedonia201512.7
North Macedonia201613.1
North Macedonia201713.2
North Macedonia201813.2
North Macedonia201912.7
North Macedonia202013.4
North Macedonia202113
North Macedonia202213.2
North Macedonia202313.6
North Macedonia202414.1
Montenegro201115.4
Montenegro201217.1
Montenegro201321.1
Montenegro201420.1
Montenegro201516.6
Montenegro201615.7
Montenegro201714.2
Montenegro201813.9
Montenegro201913.4
Montenegro202014.1
Montenegro202114
Montenegro202215
Montenegro202314.3
Montenegro202413.9
Serbia201115.2
Serbia201215.1
Serbia201314.7
Serbia201414.5
Serbia201513.8
Serbia201612.8
Serbia201712.7
Serbia201812.1
Serbia201911.5
Serbia202011.7
Serbia202111.5
Serbia202210.9
Serbia202310.9
Serbia202410.5
Bosnia and Herzegovina20149.3
Bosnia and Herzegovina20159.7
Bosnia and Herzegovina20169.7
Bosnia and Herzegovina20179.2
Bosnia and Herzegovina20189.3
Bosnia and Herzegovina20199.1
Bosnia and Herzegovina20209.6
Bosnia and Herzegovina20219.7
Bosnia and Herzegovina20229.5
Bosnia and Herzegovina20239.6
Bosnia and Herzegovina20249.4

Vendimi pas kësaj figure

Losses respond to metering, billing, enforcement and network investment — Serbia and Albania moved in opposite directions on the same definition. Each percentage point recovered is capacity that needs no connection agreement.

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Efficiency

The cheapest megawatt is the one nobody has to generate.

Every transition debate in this region is about what to build. Rather less of it is about what is already being lost — in networks, in buildings, and in the energy an economy burns per unit of output. Those losses are recoverable capacity, usually at a fraction of the cost of new generation, and they do not need a connection agreement.

Three indicators, each with its own publication year, none of them ranked against the others. The reason is directly below the figures.

Fig. 06Efficiency indicators, Western BalkansWorld Bank (CC BY 4.0) · Our World in Data (CC BY 4.0) · Ember (CC BY 4.0) · Years vary by country — shown per value
Coverage & methodWestern Balkans
Official data

Network losses

% of electricity generated, lost before the meter

  • Kosovo13.7%· 2024
  • Albania17.3%· 2024
  • North Macedonia14.1%· 2024
  • Montenegro13.9%· 2024
  • Serbia10.5%· 2024
  • Bosnia & Herz.9.4%· 2024

Distribution losses as a share of the electricity that entered the system. Includes technical loss and, in several of these systems, unbilled consumption — which is why this reads as much as a governance measure as an engineering one. Percentage derived from published GWh; see the note below.

Energy intensity

kgoe per EUR 1 000 of GDP · Eurostat indicator

  • Kosovo404· 2022
  • Albania166· 2024
  • North Macedonia267· 2024
  • Montenegro253· 2024
  • Serbia357· 2024
  • Bosnia & Herz.379· 2024

How much energy the whole economy burns per unit of output. This is Eurostat's own published indicator on chain-linked volumes — constant prices — not a FlowOps calculation. The EU-27 reads 100 in 2024. Constant prices matter here: on a nominal-GDP denominator a lower-price economy reads as more energy-intensive partly because of its price level rather than its energy use. Years differ by country and each is printed.

Demand per person

MWh of electricity per person per year

  • Kosovo4.43· 2025
  • Albania2.88· 2023
  • North Macedonia4.68· 2025
  • Montenegro5.52· 2025
  • Serbia5.68· 2025
  • Bosnia & Herz.3.90· 2025

Read alongside the other two, never alone: low per-person demand can mean an efficient system or an under-supplied one, and the difference matters entirely for what an intervention should be.

FlowOps derived

A second calculation, ours, shown because it is computed differently. Gross available energy (nrg_bal_c, GAE) ÷ GDP at current prices (nama_10_gdp, B1GQ), 1 ktoe = 11.63 GWh, same year both sides. On this basis Kosovo reads 3.07 kWh per euro of GDP in 2024 (2,731.5 ktoe ÷ €10,350.4m), so the arithmetic can be checked by hand. Nominal-GDP denominator. Cross-country comparison on this basis is affected by price level as well as by energy use, which is why the official chain-linked indicator is the one shown.

These three indicators are not interchangeable, and none of them ranks a country on its own. Network losses are as much a billing and enforcement measure as an engineering one. Energy intensity moves with industrial structure, not only with efficiency. Low demand per person can mean an efficient system or an under-supplied one. Rows stay in regional order rather than sorted, because a league table across three unlike measures would imply a single score that does not exist. Each value carries its own year and source.

Sources: Eurostat — energy balance (nrg_bal_c) (Eurostat open data) · Eurostat — energy intensity of the economy (nrg_ind_ei, chain-linked volumes) (Eurostat open data) — Eurostat's published indicator on Eurostat's methodology, not a FlowOps calculation. Unit: kgoe per EUR 1 000 of GDP. Network losses use FlowOps's own supply-basis calculation, not a ratio Eurostat itself publishes — see the losses chart for the formula. · demand per person from Ember and Our World in Data as shown elsewhere on this page. Each value carries its own year. Between full data refreshes, FlowOps automated monitoring re-confirms these against Eurostat — losses checked 1 Sept 2026, intensity checked 1 Sept 2026.

Energy efficiency indicators by country, each with its own publication year.
CountryNetwork losses, percentLosses yearEnergy intensity, kWh per unit GDPIntensity yearDemand per person, MWhDemand year
Kosovo13.72024404.120224.432025
Albania17.32024165.920242.882023
North Macedonia14.12024266.520244.682025
Montenegro13.92024252.820245.522025
Serbia10.52024356.820245.682025
Bosnia and Herzegovina9.42024379.220243.92025

Vendimi pas kësaj figure

Losses, energy intensity and demand per person each point at a different intervention — network investment, industrial structure, or building stock. Which one is worth funding first is a modelling question, not a ranking of these three numbers.

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