Is Energy saving really profitable
Why are we excited about lighting? Lighting accounts for 19% of the world electricity consumption. Thats a enormous amount and a massive chance to make the world cleaner and improve our savings Whats more, the beauty of switching to energy efficient is that we can make cuts today. In terms of climate change mitigation, that is the main win of all.
Green is excellent, and right now, energy efficient light bulbs are all the rage. With the frightening phase-out of old style incandescent light bulbs in many developed countries, communities are faced with picking between a handful of energy efficient forms of lighting – compact fluorescents (CFL) and light emitting diodes (LED)
In the current days, South Africa is in a critical situation. The country is making improvement on the current infrastructure of the power station, and Eskom expenditure plan over the next number of years required to keep the country on course is extraordinary.
Theres a huge pressure to assemble the power capacity. The fact is we will never be able to meet the demand over the next 10 years. So. On the other side of the coin, main users need to reduce their consumption by bringing in technology that will enable utilisation and reduction of kW and thats were Voltex come in. There are vast opportunity within the country power predicament and the consumption of energy saving bulbs has become essential.
Not only has the power crisis affected the lighting sector, but the financial metldown too.
The broad drop off in lighting across the world has been in area of 30-35 over the last two years.
Six or seven year ago Voltex was the first lighting company to aim at energy services,long before the lack of power capacity became an concern in South Africa. We targeted it from a strategic point of view a lot quicker than it happened. That means that when you’re pursuing energy services projects, its not economy related. If theres an established company thats already using energy saving lighting and you can recommend them an attractive pay back, which we do, then we are no reliant on new building construction taking place.
Energy programs, both in terms of products and systems are critical for South Africa going forwards.
It is clear that Voltex will without doubt continue to play a considerable role inlaunching the most recent and assured its leading position for many years. We are based on sound planning and strategy building, and making sure that is reviewed.
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