Kipeto Energy response to "Six Possible Pathways to a Fast, Just and Transformative Clean Energy Transition’" report
Kipeto Energy Plc is a Private Power producer that sells all its electricity directly to the National grid. Distribution of electricity to homes is solely done by Kenya Power and Lighting Company. During Construction, Kipeto Energy Plc Constructed homes to some project affected people, these homes were equipped with solar systems for lighting their homes....
The locals constitute 57% of the labour numbers. In the top management, The Head of Operations and the Trust Director are Maasai from Kajiado County....
In 2023, the shareholders of Kipeto established the Kipeto Community Development Trust to support the surrounding community around the wind farm for the entire duration of the wind project. The selection of project themes to be implemented by the Trust, as well as the governance framework, has been agreed through extensive consultations with the community through a very elaborate Needs Base Assessment and Baseline Survey....
The Kipeto Community Development Trust consists of nine Trustees. Six members are from the community. The six members consist of 3 landowners (each representing a different geographic footprint), and 3 non-landowners. The Trustees represent diversity across gender and age....
Kipeto has a well established and running grievance Mechanism. However, dynamics like when a project moves to operations phase or process of change of shareholders to mention a few may affect decision making. While most of the grievances have been properly handled, there were a few issues that lingered due to these dynamics as well as unforeseen situations like the Covid 19 Pandemic.