The Utility company has announced load shedding stage 6 until further notice. While we are at stage 6 load shedding, you need to take note of the following appliances that consumes a lot of energy. Get a load shedding notifier app and stay ahead in planning your day.
Load shedding is here and is still goin to be here for a long time looking at the way solutions are being presented. If Eskom continue to claim that they can’t generate enough power as the energy demand continues to be higher than the power generated. We will be stuck in the dark for a while.
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What Appliances Consumes a lot of energy and How to Save energy?
The following appliances are some of the most consumers of electricity in many households. We should be careful when using them and make sure we only use them when needed.
1. Water heaters
Water heaters like you geysers are some of the higher energy consumers in many households. It is better to switch on the heaters during times when they are mostly needed. You may use time switches to control these appliances at your home. A WiFi switch can be so much useful for the regulations of these devices. Schedule on or off just using your app on your mobile device.
2. Lighting
Lighting also consumes energy in many households, especially the old non-LED ones. Consider switching to LED which are cost effective in order to save on energy consumption. You may also consider adding day/night switches on your lights to avoid them staying on during the day when they are not necessarily needed.
Still, lighting accounts for a significant portion of your electricity usage every month because of how much usage they get. If you have huge flood lights, you must know that more electricity may be consumed there.
3. Refrigerator
Although your refrigerator actually doesn’t require that much energy to run every hour, it racks up quite a bit of electricity usage simply because it’s always on.
4. Washer and dryer
The monthly energy usage of your washers and dryer depends on how often you do laundry, of course. But, when you do run the washer and dryer, they tend to suck up a lot of electricity, especially if you run your washer with hot water. On average, doing laundry accounts for about 5% of your annual electricity usage.
Here are other Ways to Reduce Energy Consumption
Did you know that apart from your geyser, other appliances also use a lot of electricity? Here are a few examples of electrical appliances that can add significantly to your monthly bill. #PleaseUseOnlyWhatYouNeed pic.twitter.com/NvnmDcF6RH
— Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) January 14, 2023
How to Get Notified of Load Shedding Schedule in your area?
There are applications that you may install in your phone to get daily load shedding schedule.
One of the App is Eskom Loadshedding App by Peace TheeCoder
It has been ranked 3.6 on Google Play and has already been downloaded over 100 000 times.
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