Spot market electricity prices for Saturday, Aug. 16

- Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data shows electricity market trade volume amounts to 1.8 billion Turkish liras

The highest electricity price rate for one megawatt-hour on Türkiye's day-ahead spot market for Saturday will be 3,399.99 Turkish liras at 8 p.m. (1700 GMT), according to official figures released Friday.

The lowest rate was set at 1,000 liras at 2 p.m. local time (1100 GMT), the data showed.

The Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data for the trade volume for Friday's electricity market shows a decrease of 20.5% to around 1.8 billion liras compared to Thursday.

The arithmetical and weighted average prices for electricity on the day-ahead spot market are calculated at 2,646.73 liras and 2,633.96 liras, respectively.

The highest electricity price on the day-ahead spot market for one megawatt hour for Friday was set at 3,399 liras at 8 p.m. (1700 GMT), while the lowest at 1,999.99 liras at 12 p.m. local time (0900 GMT), the data showed.

US$1 equals 40.89 liras at 2.14 p.m. local time (1114 GMT) on Friday.

By Firdevs Yuksel

Anadolu Agency

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