Solar time returns. At 3 o'clock on the night between 29 and 30 October, it clocks back an hour , an opportunity to rest a little more.

Summer time in seven months saved Italian bills 190 million euros and avoided the emission of 200 thousand tons of CO2, notes Terna, the public electricity grid company.

For this reason, the Italian Society of Environmental Medicine (Sima) and Non-Profit Consumerism have collected 256,000 signatures to maintain daylight saving time.

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In the 7 months of summer time, according to Terna, the Italian electricity system has saved around 190 million euros because since 27 March it has benefited from lower consumption of 420 million kwh, equal to the average annual requirement of around 150 thousand households. This has allowed a reduction of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere, equal to 200 thousand tons.

From 2004 to 2022, according to Terna, the lower consumption of electricity for Italy due to summer time was approximately 10.9 billion kWh and led to savings for citizens of approximately 2 billion euros.

Italian Society of Environmental Medicine (Sima) and Non-Profit Consumerism speak of numbers "from a proposal for a popular referendum" and do not exclude "formally following this path" .

The presidents of the two associations ask Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni " to find a way to freeze the switch to solar time, scheduled for October 30, for a month , thus allowing the electricity grid operator to verify in the field the real savings obtainable in economic and environmental terms ".

(Unioneonline / L)

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