The highest electricity price rate for one megawatt-hour on Türkiye's day-ahead spot market for Saturday will be 3,000 Turkish liras at between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. local time (1500 and 1600 GMT), according to official figures on Friday.
The lowest rate is set at 1,799.98 liras at 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. local time (0900, 1000 GMT), the data showed.
The Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data for the trade volume for Saturday's electricity market shows a decrease of 6.95% to 1.74 billion liras compared to Friday.
The arithmetical and weighted average electricity prices on the day-ahead spot market are calculated as 2,674.88 liras and 2,668.35 liras, respectively.
The highest electricity price rate for one megawatt-hour for Friday was set at 3,000 Turkish liras at 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. and between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. local time ((0400 - 0600 and 1400 -1800 GMT), while the lowest was set at 1,799 liras at 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. local time (0900 and 1000 GMT), according to official figures.
US$1 equals 35.86 liras at 2.28 p.m. local time (1128 GMT) on Friday
By Gokce Topbas
energy@aa.com.tr