The highest electricity rate for one megawatt-hour in the day-ahead spot market for Saturday will be 329.32 Turkish liras at 19.00 and the lowest at 249.99 liras at 14.00 local time, according to official figures on Friday.

Turkey's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data for the trade volume on Thursday's electricity market showed an decrease of 10.6% to 155.75 million liras compared to Thursday.

The arithmetical and weighted average price of electricity on the day-ahead spot market is calculated as 297.26 liras and 296.43 liras, respectively.

The highest electricity price for one megawatt-hour on the day-ahead spot market on Friday was set as 325.73 liras at 19.00 and the lowest at 254.12 liras at 13.00 local time.

US$1 equals 7.44 Turkish liras at 1130 GMT on Friday.

By Sibel Morrow

Anadolu Agency

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