Dan Brose

There is no question that there are challenges to doing business in Burundi – and a recent report from the World Bank confirms this, ranking Burundi 152 out of 189 nations in an aggregate ranking of 10 critical factors in…

A big part of developing a hydroelectric site is understanding the topography of the site – which drives the placement of the dam, canal, penstock pipe, powerhouse, and roads. Our survey team was on site in July and we are…

This week our team installed a “gaging station” on the Ruvyironza River, just downstream of our planned hydroelectric plant in Gitega Province. This station will be monitored twice a day, with the river levels recorded by one of the neighbors…

The Songa Energy team visited the Kayongozi hydropower site in Ruyigi Province of Burundi. This site, located in the eastern part of Burundi, provides electricity onto the national grid and to the local surrounding community. The engineer who participated in…

Songa Energy is developing several sites in Burundi, all located in the central/southern part of the country – in Gitega and Bururi Provinces. These sites range in size from 500KW to 8MW (8000KW), and we will shortly begin feasibility studies…