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Impacting Goverment and Saving Money

Suppose that everyone bought a geyser timer and suppose that everyone set these to work outside peak hours.

Users would send an immediate signal to Eskom that this peak energy is not required thus saving several new power stations.

It's time for us to take responsibility for the costs that government incurs on our behalf.

The fastest way for us to do this is to change our behaviour.

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