The Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Limited on Monday rolled out an anti-vandalism campaign for the Southern Region. The official launch of the month-long campaign took place at Chirimba Primary School Ground in Blantyre where representatives of the police and the community leaders graced the occasion. In his speech marking the launch, ESCOM District […]
Spurred by incessant intermittent power-cuts and sporadic black-outs, Malawi Government is geared to increase energy generation capacity in the country in an ambitious and mind-blowing plan and has embarked on working towards adding a staggering 1,000 megawatts of electricity to the national grid within the next four years, President Lazarus Chakwera has announced. President Chakwera […]
Disgruntled employees at Electricity Supply Cooperation of Malawi (ESCOM) are on an industrial strike across the country to force authorities to harmonize their salaries with their colleagues at Electricity Generation Company (EGENCO) and Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA). The workers have vowed not to go back to their work until the company addresses their concerns. […]
“Investigations are still underway.” Balaka Magistrates Court has sentenced Dickson Chipoya to two years in jail for attempted theft of an Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Limited transformer stationed at Khwisa Trading Centre in the district on February 3 2021. Balaka Police spokesperson, Felix Misomali, said the court handed a 24 months sentence on […]
“If you leave behind a good section of society such as women then you cannot develop.” The Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Limited has awarded scholarships worth K10 million to 25 outstanding female electrical engineering students from the Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) and The Malawi Polytechnic. The handover ceremony of the […]
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has demanded a disciplinary action against Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESOM) management for increasing electricity tariffs without authorization from the Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA). MERA told the Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources last week that ESCOM acted against its advice not to raise the […]
A temporary labourer for the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) has been sentenced to 48 months imprisonment with hard labour for stealing copper cables in Mzuzu, police records indicate. James Phiri appeared before Mzuzu Magistrate’s Court on March 31 to answer charges of theft of the cables at Mzuzu Power Substation on March 30. […]
Former Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) chief exevutive officer Alexon Chiwaya and the state power distrubution’s ex-human resource director Daphter Namandwa are back in court in Blantyre to answer fraud charges. The Blantyre resident magistrates court wants to determine whether Chiwaya and Namandwa have a case to answer or not. The State has so […]
Malawi Police in Balaka have arrested Madalitso Gama, the suspected mastermind of last month’s foiled attempted theft of an Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) transformer in the district. Balaka Police Station spokesperson, Felix Misomali, confirmed the arrest of the 26-year-old ESCOM faults operator Gama, who allegedly fled from the scene at Khwisa Trading Centre. […]
Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi ( Escom) Staff Union and management have agreed to call off a strike which was expected to paralyse power production and distribution from Thursday. This has brought a sigh of relief to people most of whom were panic buying electricity units. Last Thursday, the Union issued a notice that all Escom […]
Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Staff Union (ESU) has released a public notice in which they threaten to undertake an industrial action nationwide on Thursday, March 18 if some long outstanding dispute are not resolved. The ESU discloses that the long outstanding dispute was against governance structures in ESCOM, Malawi Government, its Board of […]
TNM Malawi Limited has extended the window of a promotion which encourages customers to buy Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Limited units using Mpamba mobile money platform. ESCOM Senior Manager for Commercial and Customer Services, Wiseman Kabwazi and Mpamba General Manager, Christopher Sukasuka, separately, said the promotion window was extended from February 15 2021 […]
The Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Limited joined hands with the Blantyre City Council in a tree-planting exercise on Tuesday, March 2 2021 in Blantyre. The official ceremony kick-starting the planting of 7,000 tree seedlings across the country took place at Naperi Community Ground. Guest of honour, Blantyre City Deputy Mayor, Councillor Joseph Makwinja, […]
Residents of Khwisa Trading Centre in Balaka foiled an attempted theft of an Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) Limited transformer in the district last week. Malawi Police Service in Balaka have since arrested two suspects and seized a motor vehicle they were reportedly driving in Escom public relations manager Innocent Chitosi confirmed the incident, […]
Former Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) chief executive officer (CEO) Allexon Chiwaya and director of human resource and administration Daphter Namandwa have pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of fraud and abuse of office. The two appeared before Blantyre Magistrate Court after they were arrested in August, 2020. The abuse of the public resources happened […]
Power utility Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) has announced that it will implement a countrywide load shedding programme due to inadequate power supply from electricity Generation Company (Egenco). Escom in a statement issued by its public relations manager Innocent Chitosi said the load shedding programme is “temporary” but could not indicate how long normal supply […]
Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) developed an ambitious customer service charter in 2014 but it was kept from public scrutiny all these years until now that the Tonse government has tasked its new Board of Directors to embark on a serious business oriented turnaround strategy. The power utility service provider is now engaging with […]
State run power utility company, Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) has slapped a power generation company Aggreko Power Solutions Limited with a K3.9 billion gen set fuel bill in a deal gone sour. Clement Kanyama, Escom’s director of finance says the institution has submitted the K3.9 billion reimbursement for fuel that was not consumed during the […]