Spot market electricity prices for Saturday, Mar. 9

- Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data shows electricity market trade amounts to around 1.42 billion Turkish liras

The highest electricity price rate for one megawatt-hour on Türkiye's day-ahead spot market for Saturday will be 2,690 Turkish liras at 7 p.m. local time (1600 GMT), according to official figures on Friday.

The lowest rate was set at 1,894.99 liras at 4 p.m. local time (1300 GMT), the data showed.

The Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data for the trade volume for Saturday's electricity market shows a decrease of 3.9% to around 1.42 billion liras compared to Friday.

The arithmetical and weighted average electricity prices on the day-ahead spot market are calculated as 2,312.62 liras and 2,321.77 liras, respectively.

The highest electricity price rate for one megawatt-hour for Friday was set at 2,690 Turkish liras at 8 a.m. local time (0500 GMT), while the lowest rate was determined as 1,449.99 liras at 1 p.m. local time (1000 GMT).

US$1 equals 31.95 liras at 2.16 p.m. local time (1116 GMT) on Friday.

By Sibel Morrow

Anadolu Agency

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