Electricity for businesses delivered on Saturday, 24 October, costs an average of €240.34 per megawatt hour before VAT, data from the Bulgarian Independent Energy Exchange (IBEX) show. The price was set in today's trading on the day-ahead segment, where power is sold for the next day.
The price for Friday, 23 October, set at yesterday's session, was 2.27% higher, at an average of €245.91 per megawatt hour.
In peak hours, between 09:00 and 20:00, a megawatt hour costs an average of €229.06. Power is more expensive in off-peak hours, from 01:00 to 08:00 and from 21:00 to 24:00, when it sells for an average of €251.63. In all, 87,112.45 megawatt hours were traded.
The intraday segment sells products that run for 60 and 15 minutes. The weighted average price of the hourly products is €219.43 per megawatt hour before VAT. For the 15-minute products, the daily weighted average price is €219.78.