{"id":234798,"date":"2026-05-29T17:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/south-africa-lesotho-explores-r5-billion-floating-solar-project-on-its-highland-reservoirs\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T17:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:04:17","slug":"south-africa-lesotho-explores-r5-billion-floating-solar-project-on-its-highland-reservoirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/south-africa-lesotho-explores-r5-billion-floating-solar-project-on-its-highland-reservoirs\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Lesotho Explores R5-Billion Floating Solar Project On Its Highland Reservoirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\"><em> The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority is proposing large-scale solar plants on the Katse and Mohale dams <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority has issued a tender for a feasibility study for large-scale floating solar plants on the Katse and Mohale reservoirs, with preliminary estimates putting the cost at around R4.9-billion.<\/li>\n<li>Lesotho currently imports nearly half its electricity &#8211; 438GWh of the 970GWh consumed in 2024 &#8211; mainly from South Africa and Mozambique.<\/li>\n<li>Floating solar panels&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605290314.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority is proposing large-scale solar plants on the Katse and Mohale dams The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority has issued a tender for a feasibility study for large-scale floating solar plants on the Katse and Mohale reservoirs, with preliminary estimates putting the cost at around R4.9-billion. Lesotho currently imports nearly half its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":234799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,16140,37243,54494,4717,1407,257,6504,54493,42881,4631,5069,254],"class_list":["post-234798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-explores","tag-floating","tag-highland","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-project","tag-r5billion","tag-reservoirs","tag-solar","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}