Power Crisis, Extra Holliday?

Power Crisis, Extra Holliday?

By Aidil Kurnia

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Shoppers in Caracas queue outside a store. In addition to an energy crisis, Venezuela has experienced food shortages and price hikesFEDERICO PARRA/AFP/Getty Images

Venezuela news these days has been strolling on an issue about how rain doesn’t come for past months and how it affects the power crisis. Regarding to this situation, president of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro decided that it is the best for this situation to cut the electricity down to only 9 hours/day and making Friday as holiday. The city has been suffer more than just lack of water supply but also they have to get used to daily black out.

Believing this act would do more good to help the power crisis , these 3 days weekend holiday would cut electricity off from public sector such as school, work and other public facilities and increase the power supply to 20%. From saving electricity to preserve water supply, President Maduro stated that this efforts saved more than 22 centimeter water at the local dam which eventually supplies 75% electricity consumed in capital city Carnacas.

    Shops have been operating without electricity for several hours a day because of power cuts introduced this year

Most of pupils and students react positively to this decision. They believe in these 3 days off could do some outdoor activity such as picnic, out bond, long trip and vacation. More of this time they use to get along with families and friends where they used to have no time to see when having school or working. In advantage of not having electricity for few hours, quality time and conversation they have increase significantly while they are away from their gadget.

While on public sector, work would not be available on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday unless for fundamental and necessary task. While this could be very refreshing to workers from their day to night work, it’s also perceived enough days to take more rest and pay more attention to take gym and health life.

Even though this regulation takes some disadvantages to daily activity and public sector, Maduro believes that the situation could be handling nicely with taking more days off in Friday to help increasing the power supply and save from power crisis. President Maduro said that beside some regulation that government has made, the most important thing is also come from awareness of the local Venezuelans to reduce the electricity usage in their daily activity. This simple act could be done by unplug their devices, decreasing the usage of water heater and air condition, and minimize the hair and clothes dryer because these electronics are believed as the most electric consumed items in a household.

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Source :

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36145184

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/venezuelans-workers-friday-holiday-emergency-plan-energy-crisis-president-maduro-a6972286.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-07/venezuela-declares-every-friday-a-holiday-to-save-electricity