(Finance) – According to data from Ternathe company that manages the national transmission grid, in the 7 months of Now legal the Italian electricity system benefited from lower consumption of 420 million kWh, equal to the average annual requirement value of approximately 150,000 households, with a consequent economic saving of approximately 190 million euros. Positive effects also in terms of sustainability environmental: the lower electricity consumption, in fact, has allowed the country to avoid CO2 emissions into the atmosphere for about 200 thousand tons.
The benefit economic it is calculated considering that this year, in the summer time period that began on Sunday 27 March and will end on Sunday October 30 with the return to solar time (at 3:00 am it will be necessary to move the hands back by sixty minutes), the cost of the average kilowatt hour for the ‘typical domestic customer in protection’ (according to ARERA data) was approximately 45 euro cents before tax.
From 2004 to 2022, according to the analysis of the company led by Stefano Donnarumma, the minor consumption of electricity for Italy due to summer time was about 10.9 billion kWh in total and involved, in economic terms, a saving for citizens of about 2 billion euros.