The Consumer Association of Malawi (Cama) has appealed to authorities to urgently assess ordinary people’s welfare and reverse some hardships which have come because of adopting to every governance proposals made by Western countries. Cama said this in reaction to a newspaper revelation that household in Malawi have been hit hard by skyrocketing electricity tariffs. […]
Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) has revealed it aims at doubling its current customer base in the next two years and adopting prepaid system national wide as part of its strategic plan. Currently, ESCOM has 250, 000 customers out of the 14 plus million population with 85, 000 of them on prepaid system. In […]
Residents and property builders at the upcoming Area 49 sector 5 in Lilongwe have hailed President Dr. Joyce Banda’s directive that the Lilongwe City Council grades all roads immediately to pave way for utility companies to provide services. The area in question is an upcoming built up middle class settlement with upmarket houses but with […]
The World Bank US $84.7 million (K34.7 billion) project will not even make the persistent electricity blackouts go away completely, the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM). Escom said the World Bank initiative ‘Energy Sector Support Project’ which rolled out in December 2011 and will be winding up in October 2016and “will only mitigate and […]
Malawi Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) has said the country’s electricity tariff will keep rising until the parastatal starts profiting from the production and distribution of electricity. Escom recently raised the electricity charges by 29 percent to the surprise of users who to the contrary were of the view that the price would go […]
Telekom Networks Malawi Limited (TNM) has partnered with Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) under recently launched Mpamba mobile money service to allow the utility provider’s customers access its services through mobile phones. TNM launched Mpamba Mobile Money Service two weeks ago to champion its effort of adding value to the development of the country’s […]
The Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM), the southern African nation’s sole supplier of power has announced it will implement massive load shedding during Easter season from 28th March to 1st April, 2013 where some parts of Malawi will have no power. The Corporation’s statement released on Monday said this will be subject to inadequate […]
Two employees of Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) have been confirmed dead following a road accident occurred Thursday afternoon, officials have corroborated. The accident occurred at an area called Chiperoni near Goliyati Turnoff in Thyolo district, according to Joseph Chisamba, Road Safety Officer in the Southern Region. Chisamba said the vehicle, registration number BQ […]
Some Members of Parliament (MPs) on Tuesday faulted government for adjusting electricity tariffs, saying this has resulted in more charcoal use among community dwellers in the country. Speaking on the sidelines of how Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) has failed to provide electricity to households in the country, Lilongwe Msozi South parliamentarian Vitus Dzoole […]
Parliamentary proceedings were on Thursday interrupted due to electricity blackout. The electricity black out was a perfect reminder to the legislators some of the pertinent problems the country is going through to which they need the House to find a lasting solution. Darkness fell in the National Assembly chamber and members of parliament on the […]
Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) management have ruled out any possibility that power supply will be normalized after the modernization works of machine number 5 at Nkula B power station. Local media had recently quoted ESCOM senior power station manager Steven Kaira assuring Malawians that the exercise was aimed to “greatly improve power generation capacity and reduce load […]
Management at the Malawi’s sole supplier of electricity the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) are assuring Malawians that persistent power cut will soon be history. They are banking on the upgrading exercise of one of its plants which has outlived its lifespan, Nkula B power generation plant iwhich they say will end in December […]
The Chinese government is planning to invest a whooping $500 million in a thermal energy generation project in Malawi which if completed would produce 1,000 megawatts of electricity for the country. This will be a relief to Malawi as it is currently producing only 280 megawatts courtesy of Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) hydro […]
Morgan Z.U. Tembo, a close relation of MCP President and Leader of Opposition John Zenus Ungapake Tembo has been lined up to take top job at Escom as Chief Executive Officer, we can reveal. Morgan, who retired two years ago as Chief Financial Controller for Limbe Leaf Tobacco, is reported to have attended interviews at […]
As the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi embarks on the revamping and upgrading of one of its plants which has outlived its lifespan at Nkula Hydro Electric Power Station, Malawians should brace for more power outages besides the normal power rationing. Said Kitty Chingota, ESCOM’sspokeswoman; “The revamping and upgrading exercise of Nkula will directly affect […]
The Malawi government says it has put in place measures to attract independent power producers in its electricity sector, which is dominated by the State-owned Elec-tricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom). Finance Minister Ken Lipenga said when he presented the country’s 2012 Budget to Parliament last month that the measures included gradually removing subsidies on electricity supplied […]
Minister of Energy and Mining, on behalf of Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Thursday apologized to all customers of the energy entity that were let down due to the institution’s poor services delivery. Chilumpha made the apology when he answered a supplementary question from MP for Rumphi North, Tasokwa Msiska. “I would like to […]
Barely two days after Malawi’s former President Bingu Wa Mutharika was buried, some of his strongmen are starting to come to reality with the truth that they no longer have the same power as before. One of them is Leston Mulli who had one of his many companies run without electricity for two days for […]