Question

"venezuela travels forward half an hour to ease energy crisis."research on the above topic and suggest the reasons.

Answer 1

It was the former President Chávez who turned Venezuela’s clocks back 30 minutes in 2007 so that children could wake up for school in daylight but his successor Nicolás Maduro rolled the measure back earlier taken by Chavez to provide more daylight during hours of peak energy consumption amid drought conditions.It is because of the severe drought which is affecting the Guri reservoir that provides two-thirds of Venezuela’s power needs, and water and electricity outages are frequent.They belive that “This extra half-hour of sunlight will allow a better electricity saving because it is at night when people return from work and schools that they turn on lights and air-conditioning.