Mexico: Daylight Savings

Implementing Daylight Savings reduces the demand for electricity by ‘daylight’ hours align more with the actual hours of daylight.  This measure, giving an extra hour of daylight at the day’s end, when energy consumption is high, was estimated to save Mexico two million barrels of oil a day because of the increase in daylight.

Date Implemented: 1996

Status: In Force; Mandatory

References: ‘Advances with Regard to Climate Change’