The highest electricity rate for one megawatt-hour in the day-ahead spot market for Tuesday will be 323.50 Turkish liras at 10.00 and the lowest will be 249.98 liras at 23.00 local time, according to official figures on Monday.

Turkey's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data for the trade volume on Monday's electricity market showed an increase of 5.4% to 176.36 million liras compared to Sunday.

The arithmetical and weighted average price of electricity on the day-ahead spot market is calculated as 310.77 liras and 311.34 liras, respectively.

The highest electricity price for one megawatt-hour on the day-ahead spot market on Monday was set as 334.99 liras at 19.00 and the lowest at 200.00 liras at 03.00 local time.

US$1 equals 8.13 Turkish liras at 1154 GMT on Monday.

By Sibel Morrow

Anadolu Agency

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