The Authority has six Departments: Technical Regulation-Electricity, Legal Services, Consumer Affairs and Communication, Technical Regulation-Water, Economic Regulation, Human Resources, Finance, and Administration.
The functions of each Department are as follows:
Economic Regulation: Responsible for developing, maintaining, and reviewing pricing system and methodologies for setting tariffs and charges. The Department develops, reviews, and benchmarks regulatory frameworks to support the analysis and determination of tariffs, charges, and fees.
Technical Regulation – Electricity: Responsible for ensuring the availability of quality electricity supply through monitoring service providers’ technical performance against technical codes and codes of practice developed by Licensees and approved by the Authority; and assessing compliance with standards set by the Authority.
Technical Regulation – Water: The Department is responsible for monitoring the technical performance of WASCO against technical codes and codes of practice developed by Licensees and approved by the Authority; and assessing compliance with standards set by the Authority.
Consumer Affairs and Communication: Responsible for ensuring sustained empowerment of stakeholders’ rights on services provided by regulated entities. The Department also develops and manages civic education and branding activities and raises stakeholder awareness about LEWA.
Legal Services: The Department is responsible for providing legal support on governance, regulatory and administrative matters within the organisation.
Human Resources, Finance and Administration: The Department’s responsibilities include financial management, implementation of internal controls, and coordination of the Authority’s audit and risk management functions.
Lesotho Electricity and Water Authority (LEWA) was established through the Lesotho Electricity Authority (LEA) Act. No. 12 of 2002 as amended. The Authority operates in line with the Government policy on electricity and water supply matters. LEWA is funded through License fees and customer levies.
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