President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) gave the green light to the Minister of Mines and Energy, Alexandre Silveira, for the return of .
The PT member only asked that the decision be strictly technical, not political. And take into account the change in clocks just in light of the country’s water situation.
In recent years, sectors such as restaurants and hotels have defended summer time to improve their commercial activity.
Lula had been resisting until then. The scenario of decreasing levels of reservoirs and dams, however, changed the perception.
This Thursday (19), the Electricity Sector Monitoring Committee (CMSE) is carrying out efforts to prevent blackouts in the country by 2026.
The federal government has shown concern about the issue because Brazil is going through the worst drought in the last 94 years and, with the arrival of heat, it must face higher peaks in consumption.
One of the main challenges of the electricity sector has been precisely the so-called “peak hours”, when demand for energy peaks, between 6pm and 7pm.
This is a time when solar parks stop producing photovoltaic energy and wind farms tend to produce less, due to the low intensity of the winds, which are generally stronger at night and early in the morning.
