We urge all consumers to pay attention to the electricity saving messages that Eskom and City Power are sending out through the media at the moment. Â The City of Johannesburg fully supports all of these power saving initiatives and request that you reat accordingly to avoid outages caused by local overloading.
How it can be done?
- Eliminate all wasted electricity consumption
- Always switch off unused lights and appliances wherever you are
- Don't be two places at the same time - switch off lights and appliances at home when  you go to work
- When you leave work do the same - switch off all lights, machinery and office equipment. Live in one place at a time.
Conserve - use power for shorter times or deliberately avoid using electricity
- Use heaters for shorter periods of time and use the thermostats on heaters to limit their consumption
- Use warm clothing and hot water bottles to keep warm rather than using heaters at all
- Use the lease amount of hot water that you can
- Geyester use a lot more electricity if they have to make a lot more hot water
- Dont run two fridges per household if only one is really needed. (Get rid of the beer fridge in the garage!)
Energy efficiency - get the same job done using less energy:
- Invest in energy efficient lighting - replace old incancdescent lamps with energy saver lamps - compact fluorsecent lamps or LED lamps
- Use applicances efficiently dont boil more water than you need in a kettle, fill it only with the right amount of water needed.
- Match the pot size to the size of the stove plate when cooking
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Change the patterns of elecricity usage - use less in morning and evenin week day peak times
- Use washing machines on weekends rather tha week days when there is a shortageof power
- Avoid using power between 8 to 11am and 6pm to 9pm on weekdays, this is the high risk time
- Switch off electric heaters between 6 and opm and rather use gas heaters where possible
- Check swimming pool timers - only run the pump between 9pm and 5am - never in daytime.
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