Eskom envisions bigger power-saving campaign impact

As campaign initiator and funder, the power utility is determined to ensure the initiative makes a bigger impact. Now Eskom is partnering with business and government to convince 49-million South Africans to help alleviate pressure on the electricity grid by saving energy on a daily basis.

"It must be clarified that the nature of the 49M energy-saving campaign is about behavioural change," says Eskom. "This is, therefore, not easy to detect and measure immediately but requires time and sufficient monitoring." To date, Engineering News says, the campaign enjoyed support from Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe and Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba, car manufacturer Toyota and banking giants Standard Bank and Nedbank, cellular phone provider MTN and the Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa (Wessa). "We need a partnership approach and [...] the support of all our citizens and customers. Eskom is supporting this process and will continue to do so in future," the utility states.

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