Spot market electricity prices for Sunday, March 8

- Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data shows electricity market trade volume amounts to 671.6 million Turkish liras

The highest electricity price rate for one megawatt-hour on Türkiye's day-ahead spot market for Sunday will be 2,675.99 Turkish liras at 6 a.m. local time (0300 GMT), according to official figures released Saturday.

The lowest rate was set at 0 (zero) at between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. local time (0600 and 1200 GMT), the data showed.

The Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data for Saturday's electricity market trade volume showed a decrease of 16.5% to around 671.6 million liras compared to Friday.

The arithmetical and weighted average prices for electricity on the day-ahead spot market are calculated at 1,222.63 liras and 1,253.01 liras, respectively.

The highest electricity price on the day-ahead spot market for one megawatt-hour for Saturday was set at 2,900 Turkish liras at 8 p.m. local time (1700 GMT), while the lowest was set at 100.00 liras at 12 p.m. local time (0900 GMT), the data showed.

US$1 equals 44.07 liras at 2.26 p.m. local time (1126 GMT) on Saturday.

By Duygu Alhan

Anadolu Agency

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