Bay Energy Saving

Bay Energy Saving

Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality is busy with a project of installing solar geysers in the townships.

Vuku Street in KwaZakhele is one of the beneficiaries of this project. The RDP houses in that area were built long ago and initiative like this could jeopardise the safety of these people.

These geysers are stuck on top of the roofs; those roofs are not strong enough to hold them. Furthermore the municipality will only take responsibility for the damages on the geyser and not the roofs. This raises concern because if anything should happen to those roofs the people will suffer.

Also the downside of this project is that these geysers use solar energy (the sun). During winter people use hot water for bathing showers not to mention tea, coffee and those hot chocolate cups.

The sun is very rare in winter therefore the people will still be using electricity to warm their water and the solar geysers useless. The really is no point in installing these geysers.