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Women Energy Barriers

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Nevertheless, in the energy business equation, women are often disadvantaged due to various socio-economic and cultural reasons. There are barriers which impede and discourage women entrepreneurs to start and run their small micro and small business. Studies have shown that women have lower opportunities in terms of access to finance and energy services than men. For example, data from the Lighting Africa (2013b) shows that access to grid electricity for women-headed businesses is generally lower than men-led businesses. Inter-American Development Bank (2010) quoted in Scholten (2013) finds that women entrepreneurs often face barriers such as insufficient asset accumulation, lack of financial products targeted at micro and small enterprises, lack of traditional savings and guarantees or difficulty in accessing …show more content…

Experiences of diffusion effort show that this is a very slow and difficult process (Negro et al. 2012). In addition, despite almost three decades of renewable energy programs and other efforts, diffusion of solar lighting system in India has progressed slowly while high capital subsidies were provided. Though market and non-market incentives exist in India to provide pull factor, the push factor leading to adoption of renewable energy is inadequately developed (Mani and Dhingra 2012). The pull factors are created by inadequate satisfaction of user needs which results in new array of demands. Push factors are created by technological improvements through research, development and deployment with an objective to commercialise new technologies (Brem and Voigt

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