Lighting Innovations and Eskom DSM
Lighting Innovations is the leading commercial lighting ESCO in South Africa and provides a turnkey service to ensure that DSM projects realise maximum energy savings with unique lighting solutions providing significant load savings, modern lighting systems and reduced maintenance costs.

Lighting Innovations has the infrastructure to provide the full service – auditing, evaluation, application design, luminaire design, luminaire manufacture, delivery, installation and commissioning.

Lighting Innovations has successfully completed a number of substantial projects, including Eskom Megawatt Park, Carlton Centre, Pick ‘n Pay Stores and Unilever. These four projects alone have involved luminaire quantities approaching 100 000 units, with energy savings of close to 10 MW.

What is Demand Side Management?
Demand Side Management (DSM) is the process whereby an electricity supplier influences the way electricity is used by customers.

DSM means the planning implementation, and monitoring of end-user's activities designed to encourage consumers to modify patterns of electricity usage, including the timing and level of electricity demand.
Electricity demand is the amount of electricity required by all electric equipment operating at one time in a building, an area or a city. The prime objective of DSM is providing constant, efficient use of electricity thus resulting in lesser amounts of electricity during peak times, thus managing the demand effectively.

If electricity is managed in this way, the demand is more consistent and consequently electricity suppliers are more able to meet the requirements of all of its consumers.

The key benefit of DSM is efficient use of electricity, without influencing the customer production and satisfaction levels, resulting in significant cost savings for the provider and thus the consumer as well.

Read more at the Eskom DSM website: www.eskomdsm.co.za