Mutharika assures steady electricity in Malawi by May: Commission Escom gensets to boost power supply
President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika has assured Malawians that the country would soon start enjoying blackout – free situations due to proper measures government is implementing towards improving the energy sector.
President Mutharika was speaking on Wednesday when he commissioned 55 Megawatts Power Supply Generators at Chichiri Power Station in Blantyre.
He said blackouts would be history come May 2018 because of installation more generators on top of the current diesel-powered generators the Energy Generation Company (Egenco) is installing.
About 300 megawatts power generators would be installed by mid next year and 1400 others the next two to three years, according to the Malawi leader.
“The current 120 emergency power supply generators installed in Blantyre and others yet to be installed in Lilongwe and Kasungu will ease and eradicate the country’s economic stagnancy.
“This measure will reduce blackouts and help improve the operations of sectors like mining and agriculture sectors,” Mutharika said.
The President added that government was also working hard to bring more foreign direct investors in the energy sector to bolster efforts in economic growth.
He cited the coming in of Aggreko as one of the foreign companies investing which is working together with the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) and Egenco.
Speaking earlier, Minister of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining, Aggrey Masi said Malawi disclosed that his Ministry is also working towards cross border power connectivity and engagement of independent power producers as another way of improving power generation and supply.
“Government has prioritised the energy sector as a catalyst for acceleration of socio-economic growth. We want Malawi to reach a point of selling electricity to other countries in the region as well as buying from these countries if the need arises,” Masi said.
ESCOM board chairperson Dr Perks Ligoya said fluctuations of water levels in Lake Malawi and Shire River will no longer result in prolonged blackouts with the installation of these generators.
“The generators will be operating six hours daily hence reducing the hours of blackouts from 24 hours to nine hours. When more generators come, we will have power throughout the year,” Ligoya said
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The launch of the diesel-powered generator as a source of electric power is not a moment of joy for our country. It ought not to be celebrated, for it is a source of colossal shame. It is a symbol of our downward spiral. That the entire president found it worth his intellectual register to commission the thing speaks volumes about the vision he has for the country. Diesel-run generators were used in Malawi back in the 1960s. The fact that we have gone back to 50 years ago should leave us in no doubt about the direction this country is taking. While others are marching deeper into the 21st century, we are heading towards the 19th. Now, I do understand that in extreme situations, extreme remedies are justified. But these generators, while initially pitched as stop-gap measures, are now being hailed as “the beginning of the end of poverty” by our president. No, Mr President. This is a symbol of our worsening poverty. It is a wrong direction. Please, steer the country away from it. I know that this is not entirely of Mutharika’s own making. For more than 20 years, every government has done nothing but plunder the resources of the electricity-supply company. There has been endless, brazen theft through dubious procurement deals, appointments of good-for-nothing boards of directors whose sole purpose is to enjoy the allowances paid at the end of every meeting, ruining of the entity’s assets by using them for political purposes, such as lorries ferrying people to useless presidential rallies, and so on. All this is a culmination, and what a culmination.
Bwana tiganizileni kuno Ku Nambuma Campus ndi mphavu yamagetsi imeneyo chonde chonde!! Pali chipatala chachikulu choti panopa amanga theatre, new and big maternity wing, ma ward plus nyumba koma magetsi palibe, anthu amatha kufa mjira popita Ku Central chifukwa amafunika kuonjezeredwa mphweya coz the solar available is not reliable!! Pali Secondary and two primary xools for boys and girls and some prominent people in our society anaphunzira pa Nambuma girls boarding primary xool but up to now no electricity!! Pali Parish ndiso trading centre and I feel this is enough to have electricity if we put our priorities straight!! We can save lives and improve education but we are electrifying a small trading centre which may have little impact on people’s welfare!! More painful is that the electricity is just throw stone distance about 6 kms at Nambuma trading centre popularly called Chideza and without any geographical hindrance!! Help us pliz!
Very unfortunate and blind plan. Malawians have already started paying for the generators with the 25% electricity tariffs. Malawi under these thieves is a failed state.
MALAWI IS A USELESS STATE AT 53.
I’m surprised nobody is talking about pollution … these gen sets will smog up Malawi … no leadership koma busy ine. Professor mfwe mfwe mfwe … Stupid!!!
Mr president what about when there will be shortage of diesel like it happen few years ago. Kodi ma generator awa adzayendera mikozo, what about repairing it how much will cost ife a malawi, is your plan a two years plan or 50 years plan. Mwina mukugula zimenezi poti inuyo mudzakhala mutapita so you dont care about the future you are looking just for now
Mutharika atathakuba ku achimanga nzake Chaponda akuvutika ku ma court lero Mutharika wayamba kuba ku ma generator kudzela ku ESCOM God is watching this thief 2019 tikubudulani this Generatorgate will come out we know who is involved
ESCOM board and The President are headless chicken
Kuonjezera pakuba ndalama zogulira Ma generator pano muziba zamafuta tsiku lililonse kuba kosatha mpaka tidzatenge boma.
Ngati pali anthu ogona dziko lonse la pansi nde ndife a Malawi – we shall be taken for a ride mpaka kumapeto!!! – Nyimbo ya magesi yabowa tsapano!!! – eish !!!! poyamba mumanamizila water level – Yehova watipasa Mvula yambiri kudzazitsa nyanja pano mukuti ayi koma ma generator!! hmmm- kumbaliku mukusolola ndalama muli pheee kutisiya mu n’dima wa phweee!! Mxiii stupid !!!!!- Ana a njoka-!! munkati by end of November 2017 tikhala ndimagesi Kenako inali end of December 2017 kenako Early January 2018 kenako Mid February 2018 pano muziti April 2018 kenako mpanda mano wina aziti May2018 si chaka ndekuti chatha pamenepo??? a Pecks nde muziti it will run for 6hours reducing blackout time from 24hour to 9 hours ??? Masamu ake ati abale!! MXIIII!!!!! kenanko mukweze ma tarrifs kuti utibele ndalama aaaaaaaaaaah !!!!! PANYAPANU NONSE SHUWAAA!!! ndatopa ndizimabodza zanuzi asa!!!! mwakanika kuyendesa zinthu apa!!!
This was a day for DPP to celebrate how much they have swindled from the purchase of these unsustainable generators. Some huge sums of money have been diverted for use during the campaign season. ONLY THOSE WHO HAVE EYES CAN NOTICE THIS.
How many months should we be hearing per year, that we should have power stability? You started with October 2017, then December 2017, then January, 2018, Egenco says April 2018, Mr president says May 2018. Khalani pansi mutiyankhule chenicheni.
I agree with you. How many months? I think Peter Muthalika should have used the philosophy of his brother Bingu (he should use more of his hands than his mouth) . Maybe he should stop talking altogether because he has never said anything truthful – that is why he is given the name pathological lier. I think he talks in the hope that things will work out on their own and make a name out of it. He is the most educated fool I have ever come across.
Our president is surrounded by useless people. People who are only there for personal gains. Generators in the 21 century? I don’t think these will take us anywhere. Mwaba ndalama zingati? Can’t you think of investing in solar farms and sell electricity to the nation? Unfortunately our president listens to these mbava. Shame.
He is not surrounded by useless people. He is useless
Koma kumeneko.. please some school the fuel consumption for each of these Generators… To my dissapointment, Escom few days ago said consistent power will be available by April.. now the President is saying by May… no wonder our country will not develop… From the speech, it seems Malawi long long term plans is Generators.. guys let us be honest… generators are expensive and unsustainable to the end users.. they will deep deeper in their already empty pockets.. Muonaso kuti katundu mitengo yisinthaso ndi 24%.. while ma salaries ali chikhalirecho….. Izi zokomera inu amene chilichose ndi chaulere. DZIKO LANGA INE??????????????????