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Average day-ahead price of electricity in Bulgaria jumps to over 200 euros

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The average price of electricity for Thursday on European energy exchanges reached 190.06 euros per megawatt-hour. In Bulgaria the price jumped to 201.74 euros. In 4 more countries the price exceeded 200 euros per megawatt-hour. This is shown by data on the energylive.cloud platform. The record electricity price peak in this country of 246.35 euros was reached on October 19.

Since the beginning of the year, the average price of electricity in this country has been 90.88 euros per megawatt-hour, according to data from the energylive.cloud platform.




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