KIPAY is a private Power Producer in the Democratic Republic of Congo focused solely on renewable energy
Environmental and Social Impact Assessment
Improving local people’s lives and protecting biodiversity
Sombwe Hydro Power Project
A new dawn hydroelectric power in DRC
Corporate Social Responsability
We work closely with the communities
Kipay’s Sombwe project offers Hybrid Energy Solutions to ensure a stable supply of electricity to local communities and our offtakes, entailing solar panel solutions and rehabilitation of mini hydro stations. KIPAY intends to introduce local electrification programs to villages in the project area.
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Lower Lufira Research Project
Lower Lufira Research Project - the field studiesOnly a few days after the kick-off in Lubumbashi, the field studies were conducted on the Lower Lufira River, 40 kilometres downstream of the Kiubo Falls. During five intense days of hard work; samples from all sides of the river and soil from the sides were sampled, on different locations every day in a distance of 5 kilometres in an extreme inaccessible terrain. In the evenings their daily [...]
Social License to Operate
Since the very beginning, KIPAY has chosen to work closely and transport with the local communities we operate in. We started our first pilot project in 2015 in the village of Kalera, which is the closest community to the planned dam site in a distance of 56 kilometres. CSR is fundamental to KIPAY and it’s the core of all our activities going through the entire organization. Our policy contains the basic principles that we will follow [...]