My Support For A Solar Installation Project in Nigeria - #solarsteem25pc

It is clear that so many countries not only in Africa but also the rest of the world fails miserably in providing a basic service like electricity.

According The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 (Davos 2022) which were held earlier this week, the energy market and landscape has been changed by one main factor and that is the Russia – Ukraine war.

“We are in the middle of the first global energy crisis. In the Seventies, it was the oil crisis and now we have an oil crisis, a natural gas crisis, a coal crisis – all prices are skyrocketing and energy security is a priority for many governments, if not all,” this according to Mr. Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency.

I hear you sir but the people of the world is getting frustrated and angry and I cannot help to disagree with you.

The energy crisis we are currently facing has been coming for a long while and in so many countries it is due to the local governments failing to attend to simple things like maintaining infrastructure.

In South Africa we experienced our first “load shedding” experience in 2007. Fifteen year later and it there has not been any improvement in fact it just got worse. In 2021 we had 48 days of load shedding and according to Bloomberg the country is heading for a record year.

Surely in all those years the government could have found suitable solutions?

For me, women are the biggest victims.

They are the ones we must perform many task which requires electricity or any form of energy. They have to cook, they have to get the family ready for school, they have to wash and iron and they are the ones who plays the biggest part in the education of children and so often they are the ones who must provide for an extra income.

Worse of all, an electric crisis is leaving us as women vulnerable and open to armed robberies, rape and even domestic violence.

Multiple studies has indicated that improved access to basic electricity can only improve the lives of women which can led to;

• Better health and health knowledge
• Improved education
• Better safety
• A healthier economy

There are many solutions, ways and manners which can prevent a total energy crisis like providing for solar heating.

For me there is however one factor which is over looked and that is to let women play a more important role in the electricity chain. I do believe they are the ones who are the most desperate for a solution due to their roles not only in their households but also in their local communities and their countries economy.

Only 13.9% of senior management positions within the energy field is filled by women. This is according to data published by OECD/IEA published in May 2021.

Women can be the key drivers for not only finding solutions for our energy crisis but for implementing them also.

If South Africa and so many other countries in the world had females Energy Ministers we might have seen a different picture long ago.

Maybe it is time for Mr. Birol who’s been sitting in the chair since 2015 to step aside and allow for a female to chair.

“In my community, consumed electricity is metered according to the communal meter. . . If even one household fails to pay the electricity bill, the whole community is disconnected. I assist my community in collecting electricity bills in the community to ensure timely and accurate payment of the bill that guarantees uninterrupted electricity supply to the village.” —Marika Taniashvili, Georgia

Let's stand together as women and support #solarsteem25pc in the hope that it can also reach our countries.

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