Heliogen’s managing director for Africa, Grant Pattison, says South Africa getting rid of incandescent and fluorescent general household lamps could save up to two stages of load-shedding.
If the entire South Africa could switch immediately from less efficient incandescent and fluorescent light bulbs to LED lamps, it could prevent up to two stages of load-shedding.702’s Bruce Whitfield about recently-published regulations that set minimum limits on light bulb energy efficiency.of anything except LED lamps for general household electric lighting from next year.
“For some reason, the economics haven’t worked out such that people have stopped buying them,” he said.Grant Pattison, former Edcon and Massmart CEO He emphasized that the regulations don’t target a specific technology. Instead, it sets an energy-efficiency standard incandescent and fluorescent bulbs don’t meet.The proposed specifications wereThe final compulsory specifications were published on 24 May 2023.
Lamps for heating, signalling, imaging, studio and special effects, battery-operated products like cellphones, UV lights, aquariums, and other applications outside general household lighting are exempt. “The economics favour ‘forcing’ you to buy the slightly more expensive one so you will save money [in the long run],” he said.“The variation within LEDs performance can be quite high as well, both in terms of life and energy efficiency,” he explained.
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