Milan, 29 March. (askanews) – Switching to summer time will save Italy 90 million euros until the end of October, thanks to lower electricity consumption. This is what the estimates of Terna, the company that manages the national electricity transmission network, reveal. During the seven months of summer time, which starts on Sunday 31 March, Italy will save 90 million euros, thanks to a lower consumption of electricity equal to approximately 370 million kWh. The lower energy used, Terna reminds us, will generate “a significant environmental benefit, quantifiable in the reduction of approximately 170 thousand tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere”.
Daylight saving time will be in force from Sunday 31 March, when at two in the morning the hands will have to be moved forward by sixty minutes, and will end on 27 October, with the return to solar time. The estimated economic benefit for the summer time period in 2024 it is calculated considering that the cost of the average kWh for the ‘typical domestic customer under protection’ (according to ARERA data) is currently equal to approximately 24.3 euro cents before taxes. The approximately 370 million kWh of lower electricity consumption is equivalent to the average annual requirement of over 150 thousand families. From 2004 to 2023, according to the analysis of the company led by Giuseppina Di Foggia, the lower electricity consumption for Italy due during summer time it was a total of around 11.7 billion kWh and resulted, in economic terms, in savings for citizens of around 2.2 billion euros.
