The city has put some very interesting facts on energy consumption up on their website. Information relating to cost per hour for running household appliances, from your electric blanket on preheat to your 100 Watt lamp.
Tips for energy saving at work include:
Turn off the photocopier when you leave - a photocopier left on overnight wastes enough energy to make about 1 600 copies!
Turn off your computer monitor - a monitor left on overnight wastes enough energy to laser-print about 800 A4 pages! By turning off your monitor energy consumption can be reduced by 50%
Leaving the lights on in an empty office overnight wastes enough energy to make about 1000 cups of coffee!
Save 10% of an air-conditioner electricity bill by turning the thermostat down 1º in winter
and up 1º in summer
View the page here to see all the stats and the other saving tips.
More saving tips can be viewed on the Eskom website.
Eskom has put together some simple tips on how to save electricity.
Tips including:
Switch the iron off once it has reached it's temperature.
It will stay hot longer than you think.
And you wont have to keep paying!
Taking a shower uses less water than a bath,
so you save both water and electricity (to heat the water)
Showers save!
View the pdf here. for more tips on saving electricity.