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Energy efficiency and energy saving.

With regular load shedding occurring in South Africa for many years to come, it is essential that we all adopt a more energy efficient behaviour. A great deal of energy is wasted in South Africa. From industries to households, we use more energy than is necessary to fulfil our needs - either because of old and inefficient equipment, or because of bad habits.

What is energy efficiency? Energy efficiency is using electricity more efficiently or in reduced amounts - in other words, doing the same with less. Technically speaking, energy efficiency is an improvement in practices and products that reduces the amount of energy necessary to provide energy services such as lighting, cooling, heating, manufacturing and cooking.

The efficiency of an appliance or technology is determined by the amount of energy needed to provide the energy service. For instance, to light a room with an incandescent (traditional) light bulb of 60 W for one hour requires 60 Wh. A compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL) would provide the same light at 11 W and only use 11 Wh. This means that you save 49 Wh for each hour your light is turned on. A compact fluorescent light bulb is therefore over five times more efficient than an old-fashioned incandescent light bulb. The same is true for a linear tube fluorescent light fitting, fitted with electronic control gear. (ECG's)

If your company has not looked at ways to conserve energy, we would encourage you to talk to us. Electricity demand in South Africa is continually growing, with 'business' being the largest user. Eskom has encouraged businesses to become more energy efficient and has launched programmes to aid in this - one of them being to appoint ESCO's to carry out energy saving services. As an ESCO, our experience and highly trained staff can assist you in any type of energy saving application in the lighting an water heating spectrum. Every sector of South African industry has the potential to save money on energy including factories, offices, mining houses, malls, municipalities and even residential developments.  We will assess your needs and provide you with the smartest solution to save your business energy and therefore money.

Benefits of using energy more efficiently:

o It reduces your electricity bill

o It makes more available energy to provide supply to the remaining population

o It limits and reduces the environmental impacts and hazards to human health of current energy use

o It increases the resilience and efficiency of our economy

o It postpones the building of new power plants, and frees up capital for other investments

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Nceba N Phike
Principal: PRECIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL
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