TED ,The Energy Detective, lets you know immediately how much electricity your home is consuming, how much money you spend on electricity each day, how much you have spent on electricity so far during the billing cycle, and much more. TED continuously monitors electricity consumption for the entire home, not just one appliance or circuit. [...]

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Saving electricity can be such a big headache , but given Eskom’s requirement that everyone needs to save at least 10% one needs to consider ways and means of cutting our electricity usage by 10%. There are various options that you can do to achieve that goal. One of the quickest ways to do [...]

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Home appliances are necessities at home that make life a lot easier in these hectic times, they are also the largest users of electricity in the home. When the weather is hot or cold, there should be air conditioners and heaters. Refrigerators help preserve food naturally, while dishwashers and washing machines help clean dishes and [...]

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Load shedding and rising electricity prices in South Africa are causing consumers to look for ways to save electricity, until recently with few supply problems and cheap electricity saving electricity was never an issue for the South African electricity consumer. Rolling blackouts and load shedding have changed that.

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South African electricity consumers have historically benefited from low electricity rates , however this will change as the country experiences load shedding and Eskom increases tariffs to finance additional generating capacity. To make matters worse Finance Minister Manuel will also impose a usage levy if electricity consumers exceed a threshold.
These are all great reasons [...]

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We see it daily in the news. Our air is turning toxic, the ground is filling up with chemicals, and our addiction to oil has reached environmentally dangerous levels! On top of that South African’s are struggling to cope with an energy crisis that will result in the cost of energy increasing [...]

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