Electricity prices will rise to almost €500 on Wednesday morning

At 8 a.m. on Wednesday (March 20), the price of electricity will rise to €483 per megawatt hour, data from the Nord Pool power exchange show. The average price will be €130.
Between midnight and 7 a.m., the cost will stay below €100 per megawatt hour. Between 7–8 a.m. it will rise to €133, then €483 the following hour. It will then drop back to €133.
The price will then stay below €100 for the majority of the rest of the day.
The average price will be €128.90 in Estonia, and similar in Lithuania and Latvia. In Finland, it is half as much at €63.
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