Tag: energy crisis
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How to save electricity in your home
Do you know how much energy your household uses? We show you how to conduct an energy audit – and share tips to make your home more energy efficient.
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Budget: save energy or pay up
Despite the challenges posed by the global economic crisis, energy efficiency and climate change feature prominently in this year’s national budget, presented by Trevor Manuel, the finance minister, in Cape Town on Wednesday.
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Obama’s new age and big investments in SA solar
The big news of this week is, of course, the inauguration of President Barack Obama and all the hope that brings for people concerned about the state of the planet. Renewable energy is getting a boost here in SA, too, with news of multimillion-rand investments in two solar water heating companies.
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Call for more public participation in SA’s energy policy
Eskom is negotiating a multibillion dollar loan from the World Bank to help fund its much-needed expansion. The Public Service Accountability Monitor wants the World Bank and on the government to make any loan to Eskom conditional on guarantees of meaningful public participation in the formulation of South Africa’s future energy policy.
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Automate PC shutdowns and save energy
Telling the staff in your office to switch off their PCs doesn’t always mean that they’ll remember to do it. Tim James, director of sustainable IT, a Cape Town-based company, says that communication campaigns urging end users to turn off typically fail within three months and are difficult to monitor. Some IT departments refuse to […]
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Toyota spends millions on solar power in Durban
Toyota‘s manufacturing plant in Durban is installing solar energy in a R3.5-million project that is expected to save the company R95,000 a month on energy costs, according a media release. The car manufacturer had already installed 150 solar panels by June 2007 and has plans to install another 120 of them. So, by the end […]
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Online energy saving resource
A useful resource for people who want to learn more about their household energy usage and how to choose the most energy efficient appliances is a British website call Sust-it. It provides consumer information on the energy efficiency of a long list of products ranging from washing machines to PCs to air-conditioners to LCD and […]