With efficient technologies, there would be greater energy savings
Another strategy is to promote energy efficiency. Photo: internet.
Abigail A. Correa Cisneros
Last Wednesday morning, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador proposed to eliminate daylight saving time saying that it’s impacts on health and energy savings are minimal.
In 1996, Ernesto Zedillo established this schedule to make better use of sunlight during the sunny months and thus save on electricity generation during peak demand hours.
The strategy is not exclusive to our country; it is used in Europe, for example. But few people agreed. It has been shown that the population prefers to do away with daylight saving time. In addition, health problems are reported, such as digestive disorders, depression, drowsiness, irritability, and even heart attacks.
On the other hand, the energy savings achieved through daylight saving time could supply about 600,000 homes for a year, according to estimates by the Trust for Electric Energy Saving (FIDE).
Another strategy is to promote energy efficiency by means of which the consumption of any type of energy would be reduced and with it the possible environmental impacts associated with it. This is applicable from the generation of such energy to its final consumption. In this way, we would be reducing the greenhouse effect and optimizing the use of natural resources.
In the recent Ordinary Session of the Trust for Electric Energy Saving Technical Committee, a comparison was made between the costs of electricity generation of all the technologies available in the market and the costs of energy efficiency, at a global level. It was shown that, both globally and nationally, it is between three and five times cheaper to save a kilowatt-hour (kWh) in homes, industries, businesses, and services, than to generate, transmit, distribute, and market it.
International government energy-saving strategies have a major impact on climate change. The International Energy Agency, in its Sustainable Development Scenario (IEA-SDS) and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) point out that the best and most economical strategy to comply with environmental commitments is to increase support for energy efficiency actions by 40 to 44 percent.
Energy efficiency provides important social, labor, and public health benefits. It favors the generation of new jobs in the country, has an important impact on the value chain of the national electricity sector and on industrial productivity, thus helping to alleviate poverty.
President López Obrador said that he will analyze whether it is feasible to eliminate daylight saving time. More analysis will need to be done regarding the energy issue, to see the best solution to take advantage of renewable energies and to start generating more projects regarding energy efficiency.
FROM THE CENTER
As part of World Milk Day, celebrated this June 1, the Agri-food, and Fisheries Information Service (SIAP) reported that national cow’s milk production was 13,239,779 tons in 2021, an increase of 2.3 percent over the 12,943,123 tons a year ago. Likewise, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development called on the industry to promote the consumption of milk and dairy products among the Mexican population, due to its health benefits. The main producers include Jalisco, with 2,780 thousand tons; Coahuila, with 1,514 thousand tons; Durango, with 1,463 thousand tons; and Chihuahua, with 1,249 thousand tons.
Translated by Nita Rudy
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