Spot market electricity prices for Friday, Feb. 2

- Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data shows electricity market trade amounts to around 1.63 billion Turkish liras

The highest electricity price rate for one megawatt-hour on Türkiye's day-ahead spot market for Friday will be 2,680.01 Turkish liras at 8 a.m. local time (0500 GMT), according to official figures on Thursday.

The lowest rate was set at 1,248.99 liras at 1 p.m. local time (1000 GMT), the data showed.

The Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data for the trade volume for Friday's electricity market shows a decrease of 3.48% to around 1.63 billion Turkish liras compared to Thursday.

The arithmetical and weighted average electricity prices on the day-ahead spot market are calculated as 2,280.92 liras and 2,287.69 liras, respectively.

The highest electricity price rate for one megawatt-hour for Thursday was set at 2,700 liras at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m local time (1400 and 1500 GMT), while the lowest rate was determined as 1,486 liras at 4 a.m. local time (0100 GMT).

US$1 equals 30.37 liras at 2.10 p.m. local time (1110 GMT) on Thursday.

By Murat Temizer

Anadolu Agency

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