Councillor Michael Sun, Member of the Municipal Public Accounts Committee and Member of the Oversight Committee of Legislature writes:
Everyday, South African electricity consumers are told to use less electricity and to put less pressure on the power grid.
While I agree that by turning down the heater or switching off home geysers is the sensible thing to do, I am not convinced that big corporates are heeding this call.
Offices and motor car showrooms floodlight their spaces 24/7, even when no-one is there.
Yet I have not heard any convincing advertisement from Eskom or the government calling on these corporates to do their part in saving electricity.
Why is this so? I am of the view that saving energy is a national exercise and must include the industrial and commercial sectors.
It is not about the amount of money they pay in electricity bills, but the initiative and example they set for the rest of the country.
