before this crisis I had already changed all my lights to energy savers
then due to the way that the Ekurhuleni conducts their accounts and does credit control we decided to do things different and not depend on the grid totally
so as the energy savers blew we changed to LED lights witch range between 1 -2 watts
even the kitchen fluorescent tubes have been changed to LED tubes
even most of my outside lights are LED
the geyser went out and a 200l Solar geyser went in done with the Eishkom incentives and registered with Eishkom
so our power consumption went down by more then half
gas stove not fitted yet, as are the solar panels, they are there just not connected yet
so what comes next from the Ekurhuleni municipality???? :evil: :evil:
they send someone to come and inspect my meter!!!
the guy across the road has a similar setup, just that his gas stove is already fitted, so his meter was inspected
so when we save we come under suspicion!!! and am saving for myself not for any other reason!!
cant imagine when we get to the point where we are only using their free units every month????
did not let them inspect my meter, as they had no identification, unmarked vehicle and a different vehicle from the ones that did the inspection across the road
and in the JHB area people have been held up under these pretences
however their paper work looked sort of OK!!
and felt "stuff" that, I save and they want to inspect!! when the power consumption was more they were quiet happy to collect!!
no one else gets inspected, only those who have taken big steps to make a difference
EKURHULENI
