Reduce your electricity costs with simple tips.

There are a few ways to reduce your daily electrical costs; where the initial attention should be given to understanding what consumes (power) and when (time of day & duration). After that do consider your purchasing of power habits; it doesn't help to buy more than one month of power at a time, as you'll forgo the price/unit of 'block 1' = 0-600kWh (details in table below).

Now, enter the theory of 'first energy', where your focus is to reduce consumption as much as possible without impacting your life negatively, perhaps only habitually.

Once you have noted where and when your power is being used, start investigating ways to use them more efficiently, here follows some places to target and new appliances to consider:

• Purchase your power smartly - attempt to buy less than 600 Units/month (0-600 costs R3.44/unit and 600 onwards costs R4.75/unit). Then buy more as needed (See image below). Buying cycle is monthly, so buy what you need and you you use less than 600 units per month, maybe buy up to 600 anyway as you can 'bank' the less costly units in the meter.
• Geyser timing and temperature - we recommend you install a Geyserwise controller and consider heating the water prior to use only (heating prior to use saves greatly) - this is one of the best consumers to maximise the use of your Solar PV (if you have). Setting the geyser to 55 deg cel helps greatly for some as well as considering the installation of a heat pump (although they can be a bit noisy at times).
• Use gas for cooking when possible - the minimum of a gas stove helps greatly and enhances the cooking experience 'for free' too. Purchase a kettle for this gas stove top also.
• Change globes to LED - this reduces consumption for lighting by easily 80% (take special note of your spot lamps - old ones consume 500W+/hour each, LEDS consume 20-50W)
• Set your irrigation systems in the cool of morning's and/or evenings - less watering is required
• Reduce the time of use on the pool pump - if you have solar PV system then operate the pool during the day
• Modernise dish & cloth washing/drying equipment - budget dependant the rewards are quick - this is another great consumer to maximise the use of your solar PV (if you have) by using them during the day
• Service or modernise the fridge and deepfreeze - budget depending the rewards are quick and less food spoil comes into play too
• Airfryers have become popular and do have a place if used properly as it's concentrated cooking
• 'Peak time of day' rate - although not relevant in RSA yet, we forsee that in time this will be a great use of time control loads outside of those periods and 'own stored power' over those periods respectively. Lowering the national load at peak time reduces the risk of overload and outages, a win for all
• Think & behave smartly - e.g. use power wisely and how many times do you need to boil the kettle before making that cuppa :-)

Performed these saving tips, but still have a high power bill, plus you would like to use greener made power

Here is when you need to explore Solar PV and Backup/Storgage energy and we recommend you start that journey here: https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/want-know-more-solar-energy-inverters-batteries-sovrn-schwendinger/ It will guide you, with first steps being identifying a local installer that easily be on call.

Operating from Constantia, Cape Town, we offer premium Meister quality installations, of the best major equipment available to the Southern and mountain hugging Suburbs of Cape Town. If you want the best, appreciate Meister quality, believe in Solar power, are ready to invest in your Energy security, then we are your team.

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