Anele's electricity bill is too high & needs tips on how to save 

As an electrician, I use to work in JHB... for a company called F@..days electrical... and this is how I learned to have a savings on electricity.... 1st. Get LED lamps. 2nd get a timer on your geyser, ur geyser can only run about 5 or 6hrs within 24hrs... and monitor your appliance... you cook daily book your water on stove and not kettle

I would recommend getting someone a electrician to install temporarily a logger which will recommend your house's electricity usage throughout the day. Also you can check on your municipality bill what tariff they charge you and how much electricity they say you have used and compare the 2.

Insulate the geyser, invest in a pressure cooker, use wonder bags to cook various foods in place of a slow cooker and to keep food warm. Use hot water bottles over a heater. The hot water bottle heats you whereas a heater has to heat the room. Change all globes to lower wattage energy savers, dont leave all the lights on. Buy energy efficient fridges and freezers. Make sure fridges and freezers are sealing well. Make sure the roof is insulated which helps in winter and summer. Use draft sealers if windows and doors contain gaps.Only heat the amount of water you need in a kettle,this saves electricity too. The more you use the geyser throughout the day the more electricity it will pull to heat the water. Switch of appliances instead of leaving on standby. Cook food in bulk and freeze in batches. For example boil a double/triple quantity of legumes in the pressure cooker. Change the outside lights to solar if possible. All the little things add up

when she said the pull pump, she figured it out where the little culprit could be.🤣

"By midday, my salary's gone" 😅😅😅we're getting read to filth

My dad says that switched geysers on and off uses more power because it is always heating up from cold.

Sana every household is crying about this including mine because the amount spent on electricity is ridiculous, even Cassper Nyovest was complaining the other day because kuyanyiwa

Owning a house = Metro bills are high, rates and taxes are ridiculously high, levies high, then still the bond is high..b4 you even think of food or petrol .. you broke 😢life is tough

No mara this is helpful, especially the tariff rate info😮

Consider geyser timer, changing globes and shower heads into electricity saving ones. This may contribute towards electricity savings.

Gas stove, gas geyser to start with. 😢 but we also paying alot every month.

The struggle is real 😢

She’s not alone, I’ve been feeling same over the recent months, R500 electricity purchase doesn’t last even 10 days, and I only have a fridge, WiFi and gyser, I’m investigating a device that can track what seem to be consuming my power like this. I mean my geyser is timed, 4 to 6am and 4 to 6pm only. I have a gas stove and it makes no difference to the consumption.

Electricity costs are no joke, like theres no way around it

Get an electrician to come and check the wiring or switch off everything and check if the the consumtion light stays on

Electricity is a scam, i left Jozi in 2021 to Capetown in January, and my house was empty, in March i got a bill of 18k for electricity only for 3months. i swear i died and woke up that day. my house was empty and dark all the time in 3months yet i needed to pay 18k.

I feel like when you move to an affluent area, consider switching to gas and solar

We used to spend 6k on electricity a month, and we switched to gas geyser, and we now spending 1k a month and fill 2 19kg of gas a month, so we save about 2k now

Hey,Anila welcome to the club everyone is complaining about it .

The alarm, the outside lights ,camera ‘s they consume a lot of electricity

Gysers can’t be turned on the whole day

Smart geyser is where it’s at

They eating the electricity we were gone for 3 days and when we cane back we had no electricity left

It's the new normal😂...welcome

Pool pump ...💡

Its a pandemic that's gonna kill us😢😢😢

I am sure someone is chowing your electricity, the neighbours have probably bridged their electricity to use yours. It's possible people are very sneaky.

Oh prepaid did go up just before elections 500R gets you 139 units, now that amount it has gone down to 119units as it went up again in the last 2 weeks. We are being played cause petrol has been going down why the prepaid go up in less than 2 mnths

Switching the geyser on and off everyday actually consumes more power than just leaving it on

😂😂😂😂

Go back to basics mama. Go get alostro to fix your meter