The highest electricity price rate for one megawatt-hour in Turkey's day-ahead spot market for Sunday will be 674 Turkish liras at 19.00 (1600GMT) and 20.00 (1700GMT) , while the lowest will be 434.70 liras at 12.00 local time (0900 GMT), 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 13.7% to 280.81 million liras compared to Friday.

The arithmetical and weighted average price of electricity on the day-ahead spot market is calculated as 494.51 liras and 493.61 liras, respectively.

The highest electricity price for one megawatt-hour on the day-ahead spot market for Saturday is set as 674 liras at between 18.00(1500GMT) to 21.00(1800GMT), with the lowest at 447.45 liras at 07.00 local time (0400 GMT).

US$1 equals 8.47 Turkish liras at 1100 GMT on Saturday.

By Gulsen Cagatay

Anadolu Agency

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