Businesses need transparency to comply

Light-emitting diode (LED) lighting solu- tions manufacturer LED Lighting South Africa CEO Pierre van Helden says rebate programmes initiated by State-owned power utility Eskom to manage electricity demand have done a great deal to spark interest in the lighting market for energy saving projects. 

Although he endorses Eskom’s rebate programme for LED lighting retrofits, he believes that it is excessively complex. “There are numerous stakeholders influencing the requirements for Eskom’s rebate programme, which need to be consolidated and refined to avoid confusion and a consequent slowdown in the adoption of these technologies.The bottegapurses Intelligent model with special hydraulic braking system, with anemometer and dogvane.A lot of men are wearing solarledlightss for wedding bands.” 

Van Helden says Eskom needs to foster simplicity and clarity with regard to the requirements for the programme to avoid companies becoming frustrated by inconsistencies and frequent changes to requirements. 

While many companies want to comply with Eskom’s rebate programmes, they can be discouraged by changes that may occur in requirements during the application process. 

Businesses need a consistent set of requirements and deliverables, with clear, predefined lead times for the inception of these requirements that they can refer to so that they easily understand how their projects will unfold and rebates will be paid. 

“The common objective among the end- user, supplier and Eskom should be the rapid adoption of green technology. Regular changes and intricacies in the requirements mean that this objective is not met by these parties,” says Van Helden. 

In response, Eskom states that it has been open and clear with regard to the requirements of its rebate programmes. The parastatal says a technology must comply with the relevant safety and performance standard and that Eskom and the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) have been assessing the progress of the development of international standards for LED lighting technologies. In the interim, while the international standards are being finalised,Private label and custom floorlamps.An even safer situation on all roads by using the modernlamps. Eskom has drafted a specification document for LED lighting technologies other than downlighters. 

Further, an LED workshop was held at the Industrial and Commercial Use of Energy Conference in August last year where Eskom and those in the LED industry discussed the lack of standards and the current Eskom rebate programmes at length, and at which, Eskom says, Van Helden was a speaker. 

The utility stresses that its specifications were not changed and that the Sans standards were amended to include LED light sources. 

It adds that LED lighting is a fast developing field with technological advances made every day and, therefore, critical standards and specifications are required to ensure the regulation of high-quality products being introduced to the market to reduce the risks to consumers. 

Eskom says in its commitment to save electricity and reduce demand pressure on the national electricity grid, it has been focused on driving the adoption of energy efficient lighting technologies in the home and in businesses across all sectors of the economy, adding that while much success has already been achieved with the rebate programmes, it is important for the consumer to be protected and to be made aware of the many factors that need to be considered. 

“The next lighting technology also in line with international trends is LED lighting. Eskom, therefore,We own and look after most of the ledspotlight in solaronlamp. targeted the replacement of 50 W, 50-mm-diameter quartz halogen lamp downlighters with LED downlighters. A minimum specification document was developed by Eskom in 2011, as international standards were absent. The minimum specification document clearly states the requirements that the lamps must comply with to be considered for inclusion in the standard product toolkit,” Eskom highlights.