Five unusual energy-saving tips to help you slash your bills: Heat the room you'll spend the most time in. Nikodash/Shutterstock As temperatures drop over the winter period and the cost of energy rises across the UK and Europe, how to spend less money on gas and electricity is on everyone’s minds. The UK energy regulator …
Helping reduce loadshedding’s impact one appliance at a time: How Plentify is Bringing a Radical, Energy-Saving Solution to Market: At a time when loadshedding has never been worse, smart energy company Plentify is building a revolutionary solution for South Africa. Created by the former energy leaders of Google, IBM Research and Tesla Energy in Africa, …
How energy-saving advice can hurt the most vulnerable households: Households are facing an unprecedented energy crisis, and the most vulnerable will suffer the most. Solarisys/Shutterstock With UK households facing a dire energy crisis, there has been no shortage of advice from politicians, experts and journalists about how to save energy. Not all of this advice …
Four energy-saving lessons from the first lockdown which may help us through the winter: Lockdown disrupted our daily routines – and lowered their carbon footprint. Sipeta / shutterstock The gold standard of research in science is the randomised controlled trial. The COVID-19 restrictions may at times seem random and most certainly feel like a trial. But …
South Africa in the news: Andhra’s energy-saving efforts to be showcased at BRICS’ Vizag meet today: The energy principal secretary said that Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) managing director Saurab Kumar had told him that all BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – were keen to participate in the workshop in …