Venezuela national clocks half an hour because people speechless-Venezuela, electricity-IT information

Xinhua News Agency, on May 1, Venezuela announced that from May 1 on the clocks across the country for half an hour, adjusted for Venezuela standard time is 4 hours behind GMT.

Venezuela this is to take advantage of natural light to reduce lighting power shortage, but experts believe that reducing lighting energy-saving effects may not be apparent.

Venezuela mainly relies on hydropower, embalse de Guri power plant bears around 70% of electricity supply. Under the influence of the El Ni?o phenomenon, Venezuela number of reservoir water level caused by severe drought in an emergency, acute shortage of electricity supply.

Venezuela President Maduro announced a series of energy-saving measures in mid-April this year, including rolling blackouts every day throughout the 4-hour, public sector workers will be converted to hours worked per week 2 days, rest for 5 days and so on.

Venezuela's opposition believes that lack of government investment in energy infrastructure is the main reason causing the electricity shortage.

委内瑞拉全国时钟拨快半小时，原因让人无语 - 委内瑞拉,电荒 - IT资讯

新华社5月1日消息，委内瑞拉宣布从5月1日凌晨起将全国时钟拨快半小时，调整后委内瑞拉的标准时间比格林尼治时间晚了4小时。

委内瑞拉此举是为充分利用自然光线以节约照明用电应对电荒，但也有专家认为，减少照明用电的节能效果可能并不明显。

委内瑞拉主要依靠水力发电，其中古里水库发电厂承担着全国约70%的电力供应。受厄尔尼诺现象影响，委内瑞拉严重干旱致全国多个水库的水位告急，电力供应严重不足。

委内瑞拉总统马杜罗今年4月中旬宣布了一系列节能措施，包括全境每天轮流断电4小时，公共部门职员将改为每周工作2天、休息5天等。

委内瑞拉反对党认为，政府对能源设施投资不足是造成电荒的主要原因。