Excuse to Hike Electricity Bill!

[makapaaa]

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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->SIMPLY switching off television sets and set-top boxes at the power sockets when they are not in use can save 100,000 flats a total of $2.7 million in electricity costs every year.
Each household would pay $27 less each year and the amount of electricity saved would be enough for 2,700 four-room flats for a year.
A programme by the National Environment Agency (NEA) and the South East Community Development Council aims to get 100,000 or so households in the South East District to do so.
The programme, called 'Switch Off Your TV And Set-top Box at the Mains and Gain!', was launched on Sunday at the South East Clean and Green Singapore Carnival.
Under the programme, banners and posters will be put up in areas in the district with high levels of human traffic, such as town centres, to spread the word.
They will be up in all 14 constituencies in the district by March next year. -- MYPAPER

 

[Watchman]

Let's up the tempo ! Lets see if the government bails out individual households .

 

[Watchman]

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