Spot market electricity prices for Saturday, March 8

- Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data shows electricity market trade amounts to around 1.38 billion Turkish liras

The highest electricity price rate for one megawatt-hour on Türkiye's day-ahead spot market for Saturday will be 2,995 Turkish liras at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. local time (1500, 1700 GMT), according to official figures on Friday.

The lowest rate is set at 1,000 liras at 1 p.m. local time (1000 GMT), the data showed.

The Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data for the trade volume for Saturday's electricity market shows a decrease of 3.8% to around 1.38 billion liras compared to Friday.

The arithmetical and weighted average electricity prices on the day-ahead spot market are calculated as 2,211.28 liras and 2,218.87 liras, respectively.

The highest electricity price rate for one megawatt-hour for Friday was set at 2,800.01 liras, while the lowest at 798.23 liras, according to official figures.

US$1 equals 36.44 liras at 2.21 p.m. local time (1121 GMT) on Friday.

By Firdevs Yuksel

Anadolu Agency

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