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Eskom requested that we save electricity usage by 10 percent.In order to achieve this we were requested to switch off our geysers during the day and install energy saving light globes.My account for 02/08 was R549.00 my March account was R395.00.I have installed 17 energy saving light globes,switched off the geyser every day(and sometimes had a cold shower the next morning because no one switched it on again)installed special security lights running off energy saving globes all at my cost which came to approximately R4000.00.According to Eskom (as stated by News 24.com) they will read May And June 2008 account and you must save10 percent on those accounts.If that is the case I shall rechange all my light bulbs (which I still have) back to normal 60 and 100 watt bulbs ,stop using gas (at great cost) where I can, and will forget to switch off the geyser until July 2008 I already suffer load shedding with all other citizens and commerce which is a total inconveniece to all concerned.I suggest Eskom get its priorities right and as their load shedding schedules are a total joke one can guess how well the parastatal is run.Where is my R1,000,000.00 bonus?Please South African citizens cough up so we can declare the bonuses if we havent been paid them already?????.
 
Well that seems to be a 25% saving.....not bad if u ask me....

Well it will take you 30 months to recover your initial investment of R4k...( with a 10% interest rate)......
Over 4 years you will get an Internal rate of Return ( IRR ) of about 30% and this is with current electricty prices and they are going up soon so this value will increase


We have just installed a Soler geyser about a week ago and it will aparantly save almost 50% off our bill but we will see when the bill comes
 
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Eskom requested that we save electricity usage by 10 percent.In order to achieve this we were requested to switch off our geysers during the day and install energy saving light globes.My account for 02/08 was R549.00 my March account was R395.00.I have installed 17 energy saving light globes,switched off the geyser every day(and sometimes had a cold shower the next morning because no one switched it on again)installed special security lights running off energy saving globes all at my cost which came to approximately R4000.00.According to Eskom (as stated by News 24.com) they will read May And June 2008 account and you must save10 percent on those accounts.If that is the case I shall rechange all my light bulbs (which I still have) back to normal 60 and 100 watt bulbs ,stop using gas (at great cost) where I can, and will forget to switch off the geyser until July 2008 I already suffer load shedding with all other citizens and commerce which is a total inconveniece to all concerned.I suggest Eskom get its priorities right and as their load shedding schedules are a total joke one can guess how well the parastatal is run.Where is my R1,000,000.00 bonus?Please South African citizens cough up so we can declare the bonuses if we havent been paid them already?????.
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Unfortunately you are misinformed.... you, as an individual, would have no chance of being exempt from load shedding. Not unless you can convince everyone in your zone to reduce their consumption - this is what eThekwini is trying to achieve.

Exemption from Scheduled Load Shedding

* The country has now entered the second phase of the National Emergency Response Plan, the Power Rationing phase that will extend from March to July 2008. This means that Eskom is now looking to the commercial sector, residential and other smaller customers to save 10% of their consumption and reduce demand
* For customers who are individually switchable (see note *), should a 10% demand reduction be achieved, then these customers will be exempted from the load shedding
* In the case of embedded customers (see note**), who are not individually switchable, a group achievement of the 10% reduction will lead to an exemption of that group from load shedding. Although selectively switchable critical loads or services will be exempted from load shedding where possible, they still have to achieve the set 10% demand reduction
* The period that will be used to set the base consumption level, from which savings have to be achieved, is October 2006 to September 2007

Notes:

* “Switchable customers” means those customers for whom the electricity supplier has direct control. The electricity supplier would therefore be able to treat them individually and switch them off, or avoid switching them off, depending on their performance in terms of savings.

** An “embedded customer” is located within the electricity supplier’s network and is unable to be switched individually.
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Even if you do save on your consumption,and your neighbours do not, you will get blacked out.

( Why do they have a problem with the word Black?)

Not politically correct?
 
Doesn't matter if the whole country saves 10% in total, we will still be powercutted (See, I are cleverer now so I can think up pretty words) and bullied into such a state that we won't mind what we have to pay just to have some power.

Eskom and Government are hiding a lot of stuff, and lie about a lot of stuff. They just want to make money, and truckloads of it. That's the bottom line.
 
I am not attempting to save 10 percent throughout the commmunity but rather about my own circumstance.To achieve 10 percent within a zone which stretches some 5km in area is asking to much especially when that zone is mainly town houses or cluster houses.My augument is I saved the 10 percent as requested so why in May and June am I going to be judged on what I should save.Rather take the average over a years usage of electricity and not on two months usage of electricity,especially when meters are read on different days.i.e not always after 30 or 31 days.Furthermore I am not attempting to be exempt from load shedding but the elrctricity usage Eskom will base its surcharge theron.
 
I wonder if hell will be loadshedded? :D Bit of a problem for old nick! ;)

This whole whoo haa is a lot of bull! If you think about it logically, the load has not changed that much since last year. Why this big panic now? Because there is no coal? Because the govt fkd up? because exdom fked up? Who knows? They do but they will never have the guts to admit it.. Don`t have to anyway. Just blame it on apartheid! LOL! Hey, I haven't heard that one in a while. :D Our genny has run each morning here in Grahamstown for three hours this week.. Thats a lot of Diesel. Who will pay for it? Ekxdom? Someone will pay and it will end up being Joe soap. Poor sod, he will just get poorer. :(
 
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I am not attempting to save 10 percent throughout the commmunity but rather about my own circumstance.To achieve 10 percent within a zone which stretches some 5km in area is asking to much especially when that zone is mainly town houses or cluster houses.My augument is I saved the 10 percent as requested so why in May and June am I going to be judged on what I should save.Rather take the average over a years usage of electricity and not on two months usage of electricity,especially when meters are read on different days.i.e not always after 30 or 31 days.Furthermore I am not attempting to be exempt from load shedding but the elrctricity usage Eskom will base its surcharge theron.
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Except for those of us who have been saving for years already.
 
Why bother?

They said - cut consumption by 10% or you will be cut. They didn't say unless everyone cuts 10% every one will be cut. You could argue that it is implied but then they would not have been very transparent and honest in using a singular for plural subject, would they?

So right now they are going to 'manage' you into the 10% saving whether you save it or not. So why should you bother?

Until there is honesty from them, why should any of us behave any differently?

And to the positives out there - jump up and down at me and give me a whole bunch of stuff about what a terrible citizen I am. I already cut back close to 50% but now my huge gaz guzzling 4X4 gets to pollute the environment by running for an extra hour on some days when I sit in the traffic.
 
Just arrived home after a week away. All my lighting timers are out, HiFi display in demo mode. This is the future. :( The shops should stop selling these plug in mains switch timer units, because they will never switch on time. So now I have to spend more on timers with battery backup!

LOL! Just discovered the pool pump still on! :D Also on a clock timer!
 
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