Small business owners have said erratic power supplies are proving costly to their businesses while life has become unbearable for ordinary people due to frequent blackouts. Small scale traders say Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) and governmentshould find a lasting solution to the power crisis which affects efforts to revive the economy. Rahaby Ngulama […]
Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) has taken a contradictory step and admitted to the nation that the current blackouts are a result of faulty power generating machines. The revelation comes days after Nyasa Times, in one of its stories, revealed that Escom’s power plants developed faults. The remarks by Escom’s management also contradicts the […]
President Peter Mutharika has said the government has identified a serious investor in the struggling power sector but could not confirm reports that ESCOM was being privatised. “Several investors are coming to invest in the power sector. Soon we will be signing the memorandum of understanding,” Mutharika said. His comments come amid calls for the […]
The Consumers Association of Malawi (CAMA) has hit at Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) over the current blackout situation in the country, arguing the situation has become much worse under Peter Mutharika’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) era than it was under Joyce Banda’s Peoples Party (PP) administration. Under the two-year era of Joyce Banda, […]
Pentecostal pastors on Monday fell short of asking the holy spirit to intervene in the endless power cuts in Malawi instead they asked President Peter Mutharika to ensure power blackouts are minimised. Speaking at Kamuzu Palace, one of the pastors, in his speech dwelt much on power blackouts, saying Malawians are suffering and losing a […]
The Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) is making a strong warning to its customers across the country that they will continue to experience frequent and prolonged load shedding for the next four months due to insufficient generation capacity. In a statement issued Monday, Escom says the situation has been compounded by reduced water levels […]
Minister of Natural Resources Energy and Mining Bright Msaka on Thursday announced that government will electrify 81 Trading Centres from each of districts of the country through Malawi Rural Electrification Programme(MAREP) when phase eight of the rural electrification program starts this year. Msaka reveals that planning of phase eight started in May and is expected to […]
Impoverished villagers are hacking down Malawi’s forests to make charcoal, undeterred by government efforts to confiscate the dirty fuel as a power deficit stokes demand. Only 9 percent of the southern African country’s population have access to electricity, ensuring a good market for the charcoal produced by communities living near forests. The fuel is sold mainly […]
Minister of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining Atupele Muluzi has expressed satisfaction with the progress of Malawi Rural Electrification Programme (Marep) phase seven. According to Muluzi, government through this project intend to increase connectivity to 30 percent by 2030. “ The figure might look small but people should know that the current connectivity is at […]
Malawians should brace themselves for a dark Easter holiday as the country’s sole electricity provider, Electricity Supply Commission of Malawi (ESCOM), plans a massive load-shedding to carry out some maintenance works. According to the schedule published in the local papers on Tuesday, March 31, 2015, the utility supplier says the three-day load-shedding commences on Good Friday, […]
The Ministry of Health has expressed concern over power outage that has affected health service delivery in the country. Speaking on the development to the Malawi News Agency (Mana) on Wednesday, Ministry of Health Public Relations Officer (PRO) Henry Chimbali said health services have not been spared from these outages he however said the Ministry […]
The troubled Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) says it has re-commissioned Nkula Hydro-power station after the recent devastating floods forced the power supplier to shut it down to avoid severe damage to the machines, saying said consumers would only experience load shedding due to other reason, including maintanance of distribution lines and not due to […]
At the time the nation was eager to resume a moment of uninterrupted electricity supply, the situation has just gotten worse with some parts of the country experiencing intermittent blackouts every two hours. For the past four weeks, the country experienced a moment of critical blackouts following the shut-down of Nkula A and B power […]
Malawi will experience more power outages due to low energy supplies and maintenance work being carried out at Nkula power plantation A and B located on Shire River which has been affected after torrential rains knocked down 10 pylons, sole electricity provider Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) has said. Since the onset of the […]
The Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Centre for Development of People (Cedep) are expressing great shock with what they say continued silence and failure by the Malawi government to address the devastating problem of water and electricity crisis in the cities of Blantyre and Lilongwe. The two cities have recently been hit […]
Malawi former president Joyce Banda says she is “deeply saddened” by the extent of damage to property and loss of lives due to heavy flooding caused by persistent rainfall that the southern African country has experienced over the past few days. According to a statement released by her office on Wednesday, January 14, 2015, Banda […]
He is multi-talented. At 31, Corled Nkosi, an MSCE holder he obtained at Mzimba Secondary School in 2006 is carpenter, a builder and a self-motivated electrical engineer behind Kasangazi Hydro-Electrical Power Plant. His ability to divert water from Kasangazi River, create own water fall through gravitational force and able to generate power of over 300 […]
The Governments of Malawi and the Peoples Republic of China on Friday signed an agreement for the provision of mobile solar power systems worth about K5 billion to be used in the health sector in the country. Speaking during the signing ceremony at the Ministry of Finance in Lilongwe, the Chinese Ambassador to Malawi Zhang […]