{"id":33707,"date":"2023-09-16T12:41:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T12:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges"},"modified":"2023-09-16T12:57:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T12:57:24","slug":"women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges","title":{"rendered":"Women speak on energy sector challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>WOMEN running businesses in the energy sector convened at Avani Maseru on Friday to discuss the many challenges they face in the industry. The women, whose businesses also revolve around the production and distribution of solar-biomass hybrid energy systems to developing countries, discussed complexities hounding their members in the sector.<\/p>\n

African Clean Energy (ACE) Country Director, Rethabile Mafura, and Technologies for Economic Development (TED) founder, Mantopi Lebofa, were part of the women participating in the roundtable discussions.<\/p>\n

The two executives highlighted the importance of networking and engaging relevant people to overcome the challenges they face and grow the sector. According to Ms Lebofa, people from the rural areas should be part of decision-making in energy-related issues as they would affect them in the long run.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a need to educate people who live in the outskirts of Maseru and rural areas, that they should be involved in discussions like these because they are the ones who are greatly affected by energy-related issues,\u201d Ms Lebofa said.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the same event, \u2018Marorisang Makututsa from Women in Sustainable Energy Lesotho (WISE), said her organisation\u2019s fight was for the empowerment of women so they could participate more in the energy sector.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is our mandate to enhance equity, empowerment and quality and intensify the energy opportunities they can venture in and will educate them to perform better in needed spaces,\u201d Ms Makututsa said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost women are in unsustainable and seasonal energy enterprises.<\/p>\n

Women-led energy enterprises remain in the informal sector, and some do not even have trading licenses, while others are registered in the name of their husbands,\u201d Ms Makututsa said.<\/p>\n

Most women-owned energy enterprises, Ms Makututsa further noted, depended on informal finance-lending structures, adding there was also need to build the capacity of female entrepreneurs to participate in more effective clean energy initiatives.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is need to increase employment and enterprise opportunities for women in the renewable energy sector and increase opportunities for their access to credit,\u201d Ms Makututsa said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe strategies to bridge the gap on inequalities that may exist in the sector ought to be policy reforms promoting gender-equality.<\/p>\n

The proposed gender unit within the Department of Energy (DoE) should serve as a collective, unfiltered voice of gender issues in the energy sector nationally and internationally.
\nSpeaking at the same event, the Minister of Natural Resources, Mohlomi Moleko, said government\u2019s vision was to invest more in the energy, water and mining sectors.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to sort our energy needs and be self-sufficient in Lesotho. That will spur the country\u2019s economy and there is need to ensure that businesses, households and industries have adequate energy,\u201d Mr Moleko said.<\/p>\n

The minister added government was doing its best to ensure Lesotho was counted among the world\u2019s \u201cself-sufficient and net transporters of energy\u201d. \u201cLesotho\u2019s energy consumption is 200 megawatts while the country can only generate 72 megawatts produced by \u2018Muela<\/p>\n

Hydropower plant in Butha-Buthe. That leaves a deficit of 128 megawatts which we import (from South Africa and Mozambique). To close that 128 megawatts gap, we must look at the generation side of the energy spectrum,\u201d Mr Moleko said.<\/p>\n

The minister also said the government was constructing a 100-megawatt solar energy plant at Ha Ramarothole in Mafeteng. He also said there are two other ongoing energy projects being undertaken under a Chinese consortium and 1 PWR (OnePower Lesotho).<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking at the projects, there is opportunity for some contractors to work. It just depends on how you can take advantage of them. However, people who often come to negotiate contracts are men, but women should also be involved because they have the capacity to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Lesotho<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. WOMEN running businesses in the energy sector convened at Avani Maseru on Friday to discuss the many challenges they face in the industry. The women, whose businesses also revolve around the production and distribution of solar-biomass hybrid energy systems to developing countries, discussed complexities hounding their members in the sector. African Clean […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":33706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7],"tags":[233,246,1022,245],"class_list":["post-33707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-head-lines","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-lesotho","tag-energy","tag-lesotho"],"yoast_head":"\nWomen speak on energy sector challenges - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"WOMEN running businesses in the energy sector convened at Avani Maseru on Friday to discuss the many challenges they fac ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Women speak on energy sector challenges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WOMEN running businesses in the energy sector convened at Avani Maseru on Friday to discuss the many challenges they fac ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lesotho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-09-16T12:41:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-09-16T12:57:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2023\/09\/sm_1694856236.009315.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"433\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"262\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Women speak on energy sector challenges\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-09-16T12:41:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-09-16T12:57:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges\"},\"wordCount\":620,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2023\/09\/sm_1694856236.009315.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Lesotho\",\"Energy\",\"Lesotho\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\",\"head lines\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges\",\"name\":\"Women speak on energy sector challenges - Lesotho\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2023\/09\/sm_1694856236.009315.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-09-16T12:41:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-09-16T12:57:24+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"WOMEN running businesses in the energy sector convened at Avani Maseru on Friday to discuss the many challenges they fac ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2023\/09\/sm_1694856236.009315.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2023\/09\/sm_1694856236.009315.jpg\",\"width\":433,\"height\":262,\"caption\":\"Women speak on energy sector challenges\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Women speak on energy sector challenges\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/\",\"name\":\"Lesotho\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Women speak on energy sector challenges - Lesotho","description":"WOMEN running businesses in the energy sector convened at Avani Maseru on Friday to discuss the many challenges they fac ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Women speak on energy sector challenges","og_description":"WOMEN running businesses in the energy sector convened at Avani Maseru on Friday to discuss the many challenges they fac ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges","og_site_name":"Lesotho","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2023-09-16T12:41:22+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-09-16T12:57:24+00:00","og_image":[{"width":433,"height":262,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2023\/09\/sm_1694856236.009315.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Women speak on energy sector challenges","datePublished":"2023-09-16T12:41:22+00:00","dateModified":"2023-09-16T12:57:24+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges"},"wordCount":620,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2023\/09\/sm_1694856236.009315.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Lesotho","Energy","Lesotho"],"articleSection":["all news","economy","head lines"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges","name":"Women speak on energy sector challenges - Lesotho","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2023\/09\/sm_1694856236.009315.jpg","datePublished":"2023-09-16T12:41:22+00:00","dateModified":"2023-09-16T12:57:24+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"WOMEN running businesses in the energy sector convened at Avani Maseru on Friday to discuss the many challenges they fac ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2023\/09\/sm_1694856236.009315.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2023\/09\/sm_1694856236.009315.jpg","width":433,"height":262,"caption":"Women speak on energy sector challenges"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/women-speak-on-energy-sector-challenges#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Women speak on energy sector challenges"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/","name":"Lesotho","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}