Clocks transfer ahead 60 minutes on Sunday 27 March: the clocks will return one hour on 30 October
TERNA: SAVINGS OF OVER €190 MILLION FOR THE NATIONAL ELECTRICITY SYSTEM THANKS TO DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME
Decrease consumption by 420 million kWh and 200 thousand tonnes of CO2 non emitted into the environment
Since 2004, greater than € 1.8 billion and 10.5 billion kWh of electrical energy have been saved
Rome, 22 March 2022 – Through the 7 months of daylight saving time, in keeping with estimates by Terna – the corporate that manages the nationwide transmission grid – Italy will save over €190 million because of decrease consumption of electrical energy equal to roughly 420 million kilowatt hours which can even end in an essential environmental profit, quantifiable within the discount of about 200 thousand tons of carbon dioxide emissions into the environment.
Daylight saving time will start on Sunday, 27 March, when clocks might be set ahead by 60 minutes at 2:00 a.m. and can finish on 30 October, with the return to winter time. Terna has estimated that through the spring-summer interval, April and October are the months with the very best power financial savings. In actual fact, transferring the arms of the clock forward by one hour postpones using synthetic mild whereas enterprise actions are nonetheless in progress. Through the summer season months the “delayed” impact in turning on the lights happens within the night, when most enterprise actions have ended, recording much less important values when it comes to electrical energy financial savings.
From 2004 till 2021, in keeping with evaluation by the corporate led by Stefano Donnarumma, the decrease consumption of electrical energy in Italy as a result of DST was total round 10.5 billion kWh and has caused, in monetary phrases, a financial savings of €1.8 billion for its residents.
The monetary financial savings estimated for the interval of DST in 2022 has been calculated contemplating that the common price of electrical energy per kilowatt hour for the everyday home consumer within the protected market (in keeping with knowledge from ARERA) is at the moment round 46.03 euro cents earlier than tax. The roughly 420 million kilowatt hours of decrease electrical energy consumption is equal to the common annual requirement of roughly 150,000 households.
Actual-time knowledge on the operation of the nationwide electrical energy system will also be discovered on the Terna app, out there on all app shops:
https://play.google.com/retailer/apps/particulars?id=it.terna.energia&hl=en