The federal government’s Electricity Sector Monitoring Committee (CMSE) recommended this Thursday (19) the return of summer time in 2024. The proposal will still be discussed with other sectors and the final decision will be taken by President Lula (PT).
Summer time can take effect within 30 to 60 days after confirmationAccording to G1, the government sector is defending the return of this strategy as one way to address this. shifting peak consumption to times with more solar power plants, thereby reducing the need to activate thermoelectric power plants.
The idea is one of the emergency plan proposals presented by the National Electricity System Operator (ONS), at the CMSE meeting held today. At the beginning of the month, Minister Alexandre Silveira requested the creation of this plan. “The plan must include, among other things, proposals for concrete steps each year to be taken by the institutions that are members of the Electricity Sector Monitoring Committee,” the minister’s letter said.
Specifically in Bahia, the last year with daylight saving time was in 2011, after eight years of being out of the way. In Brazil as a whole, daylight saving time was in effect continuously from 1985 until 2019, when the federal government last decided to lift it, in April 2019, citing its low effectiveness in energy savings.
