The highest electricity rate for one megawatt-hour in the day-ahead spot market for Sunday will be 325 Turkish liras at 19.00 local time and the lowest will be 219.66 liras at 09.00 local time, according to official figures on Saturday.

Turkey's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data for the trade volume on Saturday's electricity market showed a decrease of 17% to 140.6 million liras compared to Friday.

The arithmetical and weighted average price of electricity on the day-ahead spot market is calculated as 286 liras and 286.749 liras, respectively.

The highest electricity price for one megawatt-hour on the day-ahead spot market on Saturday was set as 375 liras at 19.00 local time and the lowest at 293.27 liras at 06.00 local time.

US$1 equals 7.75 Turkish liras at 1117 GMT on Saturday.

By Ebru Sengul Cevrioglu

Anadolu Agency

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