Malawi Police in Lilongwe have arrested three people on allegations that they illegally connected electricity to a house for three years which made financially-troubled Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) lose K12 million. Escom public relations officer Innocent Chitosi has confirmed the arrest of the three. He said the power was illegally connected to the house […]
A team of financially-troubled Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) officials is in South Africa for a meeting with their counterparts in Mozambique for an interconnection agreement, just days after Malawi started tapping power from Zambia. Escom chief executive officer AlexiousChiwaya said the Escom officials want to finalise the deal ahead of the power interconnection […]
Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) has said it plans to renegotiate with Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) for its proposed 60 percent power tariff increase application which was reduced by the regulator to 31.8 percent spread over four years with 20 percent effective October 1 2018. Escom chief executive officer Allexon Chiwaya told a news […]
Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) has denied the Electricity Supply Commission of Malawi (ESCOM) proposed 60 percent tariff hike and instead approved only 31.8 percent to be spread across the next four years. MERA Board Chairperson Reverend Dr. Joseph Bvumbwe said during a news conference on Monday in Lilongwe that the adjustment will be spread […]
United States’ high profile five year US$350 million Millennium Challenge Account(MCA) ends midnight on Thursday and officials say it has achieved its goals of expanding electricity distribution in the country. MCC chief executive officer Dye Mawindo looks back at the mission as a success, saying through the project, Malawi has managed to install new facilities […]
Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) has confirmed revelations by Vice-President Saulos Klaus Chilima (SKC), that after losing 3.8 million litres of diesel worth K1.9 billion, the state-owned power utility has lost more diesels for the 78 megawatts generators up to 4.2 million litres. Chilima first disclosed during the launch of United Transformation Movement (UTM) […]
State power utility company, Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) has now gone to commercial banks to get a staggering K30 billion to pay out crucial outstanding debt after the government refused a K50 billion bail-out. Escom chief executive officer Alexion Chiwaya told the parliamentary Budget and Finance committee on Tuesday that the decision to […]
Malawi government has on Tuesday talked tough of corruption at Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) and a senior official in the Ministry of Natural Resources and Energy say some of the directors at the power house have been fired. Chimwemwe Banda, chief director (Energy) in the ministry told the parliamentary committee on Government Assurance […]
Rural communities in the country can afford a smile following government’s decision to introduce Ndawala Loan Initiative which would enable electricity consumers have their units connected and wired by the Electricity Supply Commission of Malawi (ESCOM) through a loan facility. Chief Director in the Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining, Chimwemwe Banda made the […]
Mzuzu City residents have told Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) to show tangible service delivery improvements first for people to support electricity base tariff increase. The residents said this during a day-long public hearing on the electricity base tariff Increase application at Mzuzu Hotel organized by Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA). One of the […]
Malawi government has finally sealed a deal with Zambia to buy 20 megawattso f electricity from Lusaka through power sharing agreement as Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) iss till failing to explain the use of the newly acquired gensets whose fuel was siphoned off in a K3 billion racket scheme. Minister of Natural Resources, Energy […]
Malawi Parliament has angrily reacted to the 3.8 million litres of diesel worth K1.9 billion for Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) for running power generators and has since asked the power utility management and board to appear before the Energy and Natural Resources Committee by September. The generators are being managed by Aggreko International […]
Leader of opposition in parliament Lazarus Chakwera says the 68 per cent electricity tariff hike is to pay for inefficiencies at the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) and asked the government to halt it. Chakwera, who is also the president of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) says the tariff hike would harm ordinary Malawians than […]
Businessperson-cum-politician Richard Makondi had his contract meant to install car-tracking systems on Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) vehicles from the Southern Region cancelled by Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on what he suspects is politically motivated. The contract, worth K219, 757,578.66, was restricted by ACB when Makondi, who is now member of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party […]
The quasi-monopoly power utility provider Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) proposal to increase its tariffs by 68 percent has come under heavy criticism as an insult and infringement of the consumers rights in the country. But during the public hearing organised by Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) in Blantyre, the Malawi Confederation of Chambers […]
Scandal-hit Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) has been urged to improve its internal management systems after its board admitted blatant abuse of procurement procedures, theft of 3.8 million litters of diesel valued at K1.9 billion and now reports of losing K1 billion monthly through illegal connections facilitated by its employees nationwide. In an editorial comment […]
Catholic governance arm, the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) has told parliament to swiftly investigate the K1.9 billion theft of fuel at Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) meant for power generators which the government dubiously hired from South Africa. CCJP national coordinator Boniface Chibwana said there was need for the vibrant Public Accounts Committee of parliament […]
Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom)has confirmed United Transformation Movement president and State vice-president Saulos Chilima allegations that the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has stolen K1.6 billion worth of fuel from the power generators. The power utility publicist Innocent Chitosi said the three million litres worth of fuel was siphoned off at its offfices […]