The highest electricity rate for one megawatt-hour in the day-ahead spot market for Saturday will be 325.32 Turkish liras at 18.00 local time and the lowest will be 236 liras at 06.00 local time, according to official figures on Friday.

Turkey's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data for the trade volume on Friday's electricity market showed a decrease of 8.5% to 150.41 million liras compared to Thursday.

The arithmetical and weighted average price of electricity on the day-ahead spot market is calculated as 288.20 liras and 288.70 liras, respectively.

The highest electricity price for one megawatt-hour on the day-ahead spot market on Friday was set as 328.14 Turkish liras at 17.00 local time and the lowest 239.99 liras at 03.00, 04.00 and 05.00 local times.

US$1 equals 7.67 Turkish liras at 1110GMT on Friday.

By Sibel Morrow

Anadolu Agency

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