The highest electricity rate for one megawatt-hour in the day-ahead spot market for Tuesday will be 311.90 Turkish liras at 18.00 local time and the lowest will be 225 04.00 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 1.7% to 151.2 million liras compared to Sunday.

The arithmetical and weighted average price of electricity on the day-ahead spot market is calculated as 285.60 liras and 288.26 liras, respectively.

The highest electricity price for one megawatt-hour on the day-ahead spot market on Monday was set as 311.66 Turkish liras at 18.00 local time and the lowest will be 223 liras at 02.00 local time.

US$1 equals 7.90 Turkish liras at 1144 GMT on Tuesday.

By Nuran Erkul Kaya

Anadolu Agency

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