Save energy! President Zuma urges you!

Thinking they are protecting their profits, the stakeholders of the so-called ‘energy-efficient’ compact fluorescent lights, (CFL) and linear fluorescent bulbs are going all the way and destroying our precious planet, by insisting on their obsolete lighting solutions. Worst – built environment managers, such as commercial property owners, facility managers, lighting engineers, South African’ Department of Public Enterprise are dancing to this awful song!

I was expecting AM EU or EC SA (Engineering Council of SA) or any electricity/luminaries association or at least local government would play a leading role in pioneering innovative, clean technology – I was dismally wrong. Now I wonder if big perpetrators are the ones funding these associations, and indirectly causing the association to loose the very essence of their existence! Or, are the principal/platinum members of these luminaires/light desiners/light engineers are the very manufactures and supplier of incandescent bulbs and flourescent bulbs? How do you expect change in electric light efficiency?

Read below: “President Jacob Zuma has called on South Africans to save energy in an effort to avoid the load-shedding that plunged the country into darkness in 2007 and 2008.

In its efforts to save the limited resource, Government is embarking on an initiative to implement the use of alternative forms of energy - cheaper and cleaner forms which saves money and the environment”. . . . "We took energy for granted. Things have changed drastically. You will recall that the period 2007 and 2008 saw a number of noticeable disruptions in the electricity supply. Large sections of the country were plunged into darkness as a result of Eskom not being able to meet the electricity demand nationwide," he said.

Question remains – Will the commercial electricity users try to be electric light efficient or will the Government do what they do best, - speeches, meetings, seminars, speeches, meetings, travel overseas to explore new technologies, speeches, meetings!

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