The highest electricity price rate for one megawatt-hour on Turkiye's day-ahead spot market for Sunday will be 800 Turkish liras at 20.00 local time (1700 GMT Thursday), according to official figures on Saturday.

The lowest is determined as 1.76 liras at 07.00 local time (0400 GMT), the figures show.

The Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data for the trade volume on Saturday's electricity market showed a decrease of 74.8% to 118.66 million liras compared to Friday.

The arithmetical and weighted average prices of electricity on the day-ahead spot market are calculated as 265.20 liras and 261.03 liras, respectively.

The highest electricity price rate for one megawatt-hour for Saturday was set as 2,180 liras at 00.00 local time (2100 GMT), with the lowest at 250 liras at 15.00 local time (1200 GMT).

US$1 equals 14.85 liras at 1130 GMT on Saturday.

By Gulsen Cagatay

Anadolu Agency

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