Timeshifting Jakarta  

The Jakarta Post reports that the government is encouraging businesses to switch weekdays for weekends in order to spread electricity demand more evenly over the week - About 2,000 industries ready to shift Saturday, Sunday days-off (via Energy Bulletin, which noted that this is one more example of developing nations beingforced to adapt first to limits to energy supply).

About 2,000 of the country's 6,800 industries have declared their readiness to shift their weekend days off (Saturday and Sunday) to other days, says a spokesman of state electricity company PLN. "About 2,000 industries are ready to shift their days off from Saturday and Sunday to weekdays. Of the total, about 50 percent are ready to start the program at the end of this month," PLN's director for Java-Bali distribution, Murtaqi Syamsuddin, said here on Tuesday. ...

The government has called on industries to shift their Saturday and Sunday days off to week days so that power supply surpluses on Saturdays and Sundays can be put to productive use and their need for power on weekdays can be reduced.