Only 10 days are left until the Cape Town Electricity rates increase by 25% for middle to high users. Check your bill now... and make plans to keep it at todays level.
We have received more stock in Cape Town of our retrofit systems that are used with existing Kwikot 150 litre Megaflo geysers. The final cost to the home user is under R8000!
We are now able to use a Kwikot 150 litre geyser and retrofit it with a pump and flat plate collector. The Eskom rebate system will accept that and offer a rebate to you directly of R5108. The system will cost you less than R10 000 fully installed with a geyser timer, blanket and electronic controls.
Without any warning or consultation Eskom has more than doubled the subsidy for some systems on the programme! The subsidy is heavily biased to the present and will decrease over time, so make the most of it now.It is up to 40% of the cost of the new system and is from R4700 to over R12000!
This article is not
designed to change your mind, but is intended to show you a different way of
thinking about expenses and energy usage.
A Solar Water Heating
System is one of the only home improvement that will save you money.
Most other home
improvement expenses will cost you money –
Eg DSTV – R570 per
month this year, 10% increase next year…. = R18.70 per day
If you do not watch
it, you do not get any refund.
Underfloor heating
Electric fencing
Paving
Flooring
Water Heating Expenses
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Let us look at the cost
of using coal fired electricity compared with the cost of solar water heating.
If you have a 200
litre electric geyser, and use 200 litres of water at 55 deg per day, you will
typically spend R7.50 to R10.00 per day or R225 to R300 per month. R2700 to
R3600 per year. * Cape
Town high usage @ 73.3 c per kWh 2009
If you used solar
water heating you would be able to save most of this in summer and a good part
of it in winter.
On average we would
expect to save about R2600 + per year AT CURRENT RATES.
Next year this could
be 30% higher at R3400 + and the following year 20% higher at R 4100 +.
The amount of money we
spend today on a renewable system will reduce the amount we will spend tomorrow
on electricity.
Depending on your
financing choice, you could save from month 1!
*Calculations done
courtesy of Standard Bank Bond Calculator – 10.5% over 5,10 and 15 years for
R13000
Creamer media reports estimates of the value of the SA renewable energy market .
Revenues for Southern Africa’s renewable energy equipment market could
increase to $262,3-million by 2015, as the use of the renewable
technologies could grow “exponentially” over the next couple of years.
Growth
consultancy firm Frost & Sullivan highlighted on Tuesday that the
renewable energy equipment market in Southern Africa had earned
revenues of $28,4-million in 2008, a number which was set to increase
nearly tenfold to 2015. Read more here - http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/renewable-energy-equipment-market-could-grow-tenfold-by-2015-2009-08-04
