Reduce your use
In certain emergency circumstances your actions could help avoid outages. We'll let you know via SMS when action can be taken to help reduce network demand. You can help by:
- Using your high energy appliances outside of the peak hours between 5pm and 9pm
- Setting your air conditioner to 24 degrees in hot weather and 20 degrees in cooler weather
- Running your dishwasher and washing machine in the morning avoiding use between the hours of 5-9pm
- Using your pool pump in the middle of the day
- Turning off appliances at the wall as they still use power on standby
- If you have solar power, setting your timer to run appliances in the middle of the day to get the most from the sun