R2,000 Electricity-Saving Challenge
Terms & Conditions
HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?
R2,000 Electricity-Saving Challenge | Terms & Conditions
Promoter: Bodacious Group
Prize: One cash prize of R2,000
Closing date: 23 November 2026 at 23:59 SAST
Winner announcement: After judging and verification; date to be confirmed
Email: info@bodacious.co.za
1. Competition Overview
1.1 The How Low Can You Go? Electricity-Saving Challenge invites eligible South African residents to submit practical electricity-saving ideas, tips or habits that reduce electricity consumption in a residential household.
1.2 Bodacious will assess eligible submissions and, where reasonably practical, test their potential electricity savings using actual electricity-consumption measurements.
1.3 The eligible entry that demonstrates the greatest verified electricity saving under the published assessment criteria will receive one R2,000 cash prize.
2. Eligibility
2.1 The competition is open to natural persons aged 18 years or older who are legal residents of South Africa.
2.2 Entries must concern residential household electricity consumption only. Commercial, industrial, agricultural, business-premises or other non-residential use is excluded.
2.3 Employees, directors, contractors and agents directly involved in conducting, testing or administering the competition, and persons otherwise excluded under applicable law, may not win.
2.4 No purchase or payment is required to enter.
3. How to Enter
3.1 Email your electricity-saving hack to info@bodacious.co.za before the closing date.
3.2 Every entry must include full contact details: full name and surname, residential town/city and province, email address, and contact telephone number. Bodacious may request further details reasonably necessary to verify eligibility or award the prize.
3.3 Clearly describe the proposed hack, how it reduces electricity consumption in a home, and any appliance or household conditions relevant to implementing it.
3.4 Photographs, videos or supporting measurements are welcome but not compulsory.
3.5 Entrants may submit more than one distinct hack. Duplicate submissions will be assessed only once. Entries must be submitted by the entrant or with the appropriate right to submit the material.
4. Competition Period
4.1 The competition opens on the date it is first officially announced by Bodacious.
4.2 Entries close at 23:59 South African Standard Time (SAST) on 23 November 2026.
4.3 Entries received after the closing time will not be eligible. The winner will be announced after the competition closes and the assessment and verification process is completed. Bodacious will communicate the announcement date via its official social media channels.
5. Excluded Methods and Entry Safety
5.1 Ideas that substitute municipal or grid electricity with an alternative electricity supply, including solar photovoltaic systems, batteries, generators or other alternative power sources, will not be considered. The challenge measures reduced electricity consumption through more efficient residential use, not a change in where electricity is sourced.
5.2 Entries involving meter bypassing, tampering, unsafe wiring, disabling essential safety equipment, unauthorised electrical changes or any unlawful practice will be excluded.
5.3 Entrants must not attempt electrical work requiring a qualified electrician. Bodacious may decline to test an entry that is unsafe, unreasonably impractical or incapable of reliable comparison.
6. Assessment and Winner Selection
6.1 Bodacious will review eligible submissions for relevance to residential electricity use, safety, practicality, repeatability and ability to deliver measurable reductions in electricity consumed, expressed in kilowatt-hours (kWh).
6.2 Testing will use a documented and reasonably consistent baseline-versus-improved-use approach, including suitable comparison periods and conditions. Different types of suggestions will be normalised where reasonably possible to support a fair comparison.
6.3 The winning eligible hack will be the one with the greatest verified reduction in electricity consumption under this assessment methodology. Cost savings may be described for educational purposes, but the primary ranking measure is electricity consumption (kWh), not rand savings or social-media engagement.
6.4 If entries achieve equivalent measured results, the independent adjudicator will use practical applicability and repeatability as tie-breakers, with the reason recorded.
6.5 An independent professional who meets applicable South African promotional-competition requirements will oversee and certify the competition. Bodacious will retain assessment records and reasons for excluding entries as required by law.
6.6 The competition is skill/merit assessed and is not a random lucky draw.
7. Prize and Payment
7.1 There is one prize of R2,000 cash for one eligible winner.
7.2 The prize will be paid by electronic funds transfer (EFT) to a South African bank account nominated by the verified winner. Reasonable proof of identity and banking details may be requested for payment and fraud prevention.
7.3 No entry fee or prize-claim fee will be charged. Payment will be made within 30 calendar days after identity and banking verification, subject to circumstances reasonably beyond Bodacious’ control.
8. Notification and Publicity
8.1 Bodacious will contact the winner directly using the contact details supplied with their entry. Entrants must ensure these details are accurate and current.
8.2 The winner announcement will be published on Bodacious’ official social media channels after judging and verification. Entrants are encouraged to follow these channels for updates, but following any account is not a condition of entry.
8.3 The winner may decline photographs, interviews, testimonials or promotional participation without forfeiting the prize. Publication of identifiable winner information will be subject to applicable privacy and consent requirements.
9. Use of Submitted Ideas
9.1 Entrants retain ownership of their original content. By entering, they give Bodacious a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to assess, test, describe and share the submitted hack and related non-sensitive content for the competition and associated electricity-saving education.
9.2 Bodacious may share selected hacks in educational social posts, videos or summaries, with appropriate attribution where practical. Additional consent will be sought where legally required for identifiable personal content or publicity.
10. Personal Information
10.1 Bodacious will process personal information in accordance with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) for competition administration, eligibility checks, contacting entrants, judging, prize payment and legally required recordkeeping.
10.2 Full contact details requested for entry will not be used to subscribe entrants automatically to marketing communications.
10.3 Information may be disclosed to authorised service providers, the adjudicator and relevant authorities where necessary or legally required, and will be protected and retained for the period required by law or reasonably necessary for the stated purposes.
10.4 Questions about personal information may be sent to info@bodacious.co.za.
11. General Conditions
11.1 Bodacious may verify entries and disqualify submissions that are fraudulent, misleading, unsafe, non-residential, reliant on alternative electricity supply or materially inconsistent with these rules.
11.2 Bodacious may amend, suspend or cancel the competition only where reasonably necessary because of circumstances beyond its control, legal obligations or matters affecting fairness or integrity. Material changes will be communicated through the channels used to promote the competition.
11.3 Actual electricity savings depend on household circumstances, appliance characteristics and usage habits; no specific saving is guaranteed to all households.
11.4 Nothing in these rules excludes any consumer rights that cannot lawfully be excluded.
11.5 The competition is independently conducted by Bodacious and is not sponsored, endorsed or administered by Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn.
11.6 These Terms & Conditions are governed by the laws of the Republic of South Africa.
12. Contact and Rules Availability
12.1 A copy of these Terms & Conditions will be made available free of charge upon request to info@bodacious.co.za and published on Bodacious’ official website for convenient access.
12.2 Competition queries, entry enquiries or requests for the rules can be directed to info@bodacious.co.za.