Neglect your leaf blower, and you’ll be raking up everything. Shrug off maintaining the snow blower, and you’ll be shoveling. But ignoring your portable generator means your home goes dark when the ...

It could cost typical South African households anywhere between R361 and R5,776 per month in fuel for petrol generators powering their home appliances under continuous load-shedding. While an inverter ...

Fuel price hikes worsen the impact of load shedding as SA consumers will have to spend more to run generators during prolonged power cuts. Image: iStock As if stage six load shedding wasn’t depressing ...

Both inverter and standard generators run on fossil fuels and emit carbon monoxide (CO) fumes in their exhaust and must be ...

Get help calculating what size generator you need. Plus, advice on whether to pay more for an inverter model, or even invest in a whole-home generator.

Running a generator through Stage 4 load-shedding will cost a medium to high-energy usage household between R485 and R780 per month in fuel. Petrol prices rose to R19.47 at the beginning of November, ...