Space FM, Sunyani -The Sunyani Municipal Assembly has taken delivery of 30,000 energy bulbs for distribution to some communities in the area.The bulbs are to replace the high energy consuming incandencent bulbs. The Brong-Ahafo Region received a total of 300,450 energy saving bulbs
The Sunyani Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Kwame Twumasi Awuah, told Space FM that the bulbs would help consumers pay low electricity tariffs and urged the people to ensure that they all have the bulbs in their homes and offices."This the best way to conserve energy, we must all therefore assist in this direction by using the energy saving bulbs", the MCE said.
The Northern Sector Coordinator for the distribution of the bulbs, Mr Alhassan Osman, who personally supervised the distribution of the bulbs in Sunyani by youth under the National Youth Employment Programme, said the acquisition of the incandescent bulbs by the government is part of measures to address the energy problem facing the country.
He noted that the use of the energy saving bulbs would help save about 200 MW of energy nationwide.Mr Osman explained that some consumers with the onion bulbs will have them replaced with the energy saving bulbs. "Those without any bulbs can not be given the energy saving bulbs because they must be accounted for at the end of the excercise", he pointed out.
The Coordinator said commercial establishments are not to supplied with the free energy saving bulbs because they can afford to buy them.
He warned the public not to buy any energy saving bulb with the inscription "free" adding that who ever attempts to sell such bulbs must be reported to the police.
Miss Helina Attaa Addae of God Provides Salon at Area 2, a suburb of Sunayni, told Space FM that the energy saving bulbs are really helpful because you pay low tariffs on them. "I have been using the energy saving bulb for sometime now and I find them very economical. I urge every body to use the energy saving bulb", she said. Most people were of the opinion that the bulbs should have been distributed to every body in the country.
