Why are we excited about lighting? Lighting accounts for 19% of the world electricity consumption. Thats a massive amount and a huge opportunity to make the world cleaner and improve our savings Whats more, the beauty of switching to energy efficient is that we can make cuts today. In terms of climate change mitigation, that is the biggest win of all.
Green is good, and right now, energy saving light bulbs are all the rage. With the looming phase-out of old style incandescent light bulbs in many industrial countries, people are faced with selecting between a handful of energy saving forms of lighting – compact fluorescents (CFL) and light emitting diodes (LED)
In the current days, South Africa is in a critical situation. The country is currently revamping all current power stations, and Eskom expenditure plan over the next number of years required to keep the country on course is exceptional.
Theres a massive pressure to build the power capacity. The fact is it has become impossible to reach the required leve of consumption over the next 10 years. So. On the other side of the coin, main users need to reduce their utilization by introducing new systems that will reduce the consumption of kW and thats were Voltex come in. There are vast occasion within the country power crisis and the usage of energy saving bulbs has become important.
Not only has the power crisis affected the lighting industry, but the financial metldown too.
The broad drop off in lighting product around the continent has been in zone of 30-35 over the last two years.
Six or seven year ago Voltex was the first lighting company to target energy services,sooner before the deficiency of power capacity became an concern in South Africa. We targeted it from a strategic point of view a lot sooner than it happened. That means that when you’re chasing energy services projects, its not economy related. If theres an established company thats already using green energy lighting and you can propose them an striking pay back, which we do, then we are no reliant on new building construction taking place.
Energy programs, both in terms of products and systems are critical for South Africa going forwards.
Therefore Voltex will undoubtedly continue to play a significant role inbringing the latest technologies to the market and assured its leading position for many years. We are based on sound planning and strategy building, and making sure that is reviewed.
