The highest electricity rate for one megawatt-hour in the day-ahead spot market for Saturday will be 334.03 Turkish liras at 18.00 local time and the lowest will be 236.99 liras at 04.00 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 an increase of 26% to 157.08 million liras compared to Thursday.

The arithmetical and weighted average price of electricity on the day-ahead spot market is calculated as 292.06 liras and 293.19 liras, respectively.

The highest electricity price for one megawatt-hour on the day-ahead spot market on Friday was set as 323.06 Turkish liras at 18.00 local time and the lowest was 208.99 liras at 04.00 local time.

US$1 equals 7.44 Turkish liras at 1200 GMT on Friday.

By Nuran Erkul Kaya

Anadolu Agency

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