going solar

Load shedding - Our lights are still on.

Posted by Balbina on Fri July 1, 2022 in GUBAS DE HOEK insights.

ESKOM is currently on stage 6 for load shedding, which means about 9 hours per day, there is no electricity in the country, but not at GUBAS DE HOEK meet eat sleep.
We’re investing since 2013 in renewable energy, therefore our lights are still on.
To be sustainable and energy-friendly starts paying off.
We don’t rely on noisy generators we rely on our battery system.

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Going green is not for Sissies!

Posted by Balbina on Tue October 20, 2020 in Environmental Friendly.

16 Whitehouse, our self-catering unit is off-grid. It gets the power from our Photovoltaic panels on the roof. The time, where one thinks green and built up PV on the roof and generate electricity with an inverter is over.

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Going green in Robertson?

Posted by Balbina on Tue July 28, 2020 in Environmental Friendly.

The private electricity production is not harming anyone except ‘those state-owned enterprises and local municipalities that are now bearing the brunt of their efforts to have South Africans use less electricity from local suppliers’. It's time for a change.

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