Chamberlain Strubens Valley - Excellent Service

Chamberlain Strubens Valley – Excellent Service

I visited Chamberlain Strubens Valley this morning as I needed a few hardware items. I was surprised by our huge the store is and was also pleasantly surprised by the excellent service received from the various staff members. Chamberlain Strubens Valley is big, very well organised and very clean. There is a huge carpark and …

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Johannesburg Residents with PV solar systems will soon be able to feed back their excess power to the grid

Johannesburg Residents with PV solar systems will soon be able to feed back their excess power to the grid

The move to pay solar users for excess electricity follows similar measures introduced in Australia in 2008 and closer to home in the City of Cape Town last month. Feed-in tariffs for residential generation in Cape Town is expected in 2024. A feed-in tariff (FiT) is a credit you can receive for any unused electricity …

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12 hrs Usage Time for Solar LED Flood Lights

12 hrs Usage Time for Solar LED Flood Lights | Save Energy | Get OFF the Grid

Intro The good news is that 3 of our solar lights stay on for over 12 hours. We are now in winter. Last night the lights automatically switched on at about 6 pm and they were on the whole night until 6:45 this morning – amazing! Not all our solar lights last that long just …

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Why You Should Use Electricity Sub Metering if You Have a Tenant

Why You Should Use Electricity Sub Metering if You Have a Tenant

Intro First the good news: yesterday I received confirmation from Meter Mate that the payment for our tenant’s electricity from 1st June to the 30th June had been duly deposited into our bank account. Dealing with Meter Mate has been a breeze👍👌👏. I don’t want to go into a long drawn article but I would …

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How to Prevent Thieves from Breaking into Electricity Boxes in your Street - Image courtesy of Murphy NO CRIME: +27 72 662 7463

How to Prevent Thieves from Breaking into Electricity Boxes in your Street

It is happening all over Johannesburg. Thieves break into electricity boxes, steal metal components and sell them to scrap dealers for a pittance. In the meantime affected residences are left without electricity for days on end… until City Power replaces the stolen parts. What is the electricity box on the street called? A power box …

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12 Household Essentials to Cope with Power Outages in South Africa

12 Household Essentials to Cope with Power Outages in South Africa

Intro Load shedding continues unabated for hard-hit South Africans, and is set to get even worse in the coming weeks. South Africans are enduring ‘Stage 6 Load Shedding’ (10 hours without electricity every 24 hours) and experts forecast the power outages to increase to Stages 8 and possibly stage 10. The constant power cuts wreak …

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Amazon to invest USD 1600 million in South Africa

Amazon to invest USD 1600 million in South Africa

Intro Amazon’s cloud service AWS has announced its plans to invest R30.4 billion (US$ 1600 million) in its cloud infrastructure in South Africa by 2029. The group published a new economic impact study (EIS) which outlined the group’s investment in its AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region since 2018, and projected forecast of investment to construct, …

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Free WordPress Plugins Must Have

Free WordPress Plugins Must Have – 2023

These are the free WordPress plugins must have in 2023. 1. Backup your Website Speak to your hosting company. A good hosting company will backup your website every 24 hours. 2. WordPress Security There might be hacking attempts on your website and plugins can also have issues. You want your website to be as safe …

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