Malawians should brace for extended hours of load shedding during Easter holidays as Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) has confirmed that power generation slumps again. ESCOM says in a statement seen by Nyasa Times that its main power supplier—Electricity Generation Company Limited (EGENCO)—has lost output by 20%; hence, the return of the extended load-shedding. […]
Managing Director of Power Solution Africa, a subsidiary of Aggreko, James Shepherd said the decision by Malawi government to procure diesel powered generators will ensure that both urban and rural areas have access to electricity consistently. Due to persistent black outs which Malawi experienced for the past few months, government made a bold decision to […]
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 […]
Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) Board Chair, Perks Ligoya, says plans are underway to make the statutory corporation corrupt free and ensure they achieve consistency power supply. Ligoya was speaking during the official commissioning of 55 megawatts power supply generators in Blantyre on Wednesday, saying the corporation will be aligning itself towards the vision of […]
President Peter Mutharika on Wednesday will commission the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) power generators that are expected to add 55 megawatts (MW) to the country’s national power grid which will be followed by hike of electricity tariffs for an average of 24.67 percent. The gensets are expected to ease extended load shedding hours […]
Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) is this week migrating to a new management information system (MIS) to improve its service delivery. The new system is being financed under Millennium Challenge Account Malawi (MCA-M). Installation of the new system started in 2014 as part of Escom’s reforms. Escom’s Director of Distribution and Customer Service, Alfred […]
Blantyre residents on Thursday witnessed the arrival of the much awaited Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM)’s stand – by diesel powered generators that are expected to add 78 megawatts (MW) to the country’s national power grid by January end and ease extended load shedding hours Malawians have been experiencing which Escom attributed to the decline in […]
State Vice President Dr Saulos Chilima on Thursday visited some of the victims whose property were destroyed by stormy rains in Mzuzu and affected residential areas of Kaning’ina, Katawa and Zolozolo where he expressed concern with Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) and city councils negligence in preventing disasters and reducing their effects among affected […]
Malawians will start dipping deeper in their pockets to pay for electricity as Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) has approved a tariff hike of 24.57% but has instructed the state-owned Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) to effect the raise when they starts using the generators. Mera chief executive officer, Collins Magalasi, disclosed that the […]
With claims of corruption and bootleg deals in the procurement of standby generators that were expected to add 78 megawatts (MW) to the national grid to minimise the intensity of current blackouts, opposition members of Parliament (MPs) took government to task in Parliament. Raising a question is national importance, Kasungu Central MP Amon Nkhata (Malawi Congress […]
Britain’s Got Talent third place finalist, Daliso Chaponda says Zimbabwe, Escom, Vampires and My Pussy My Pride are some of the comedy skits he will dish out at his 5th Presidents of Laughrica show in Malawi. Chaponda disclosed during an exclusive interview with Nyasa Times on Thursday. The funnyman says there a lot of bizarre, crazy […]
Mzuzu City Council (MCC) chief executive officier Mcloud Kadam’manja has warned residents who are refusing to move out of disaster-prone settlement that there homes will be disconnected from essential utilities like electricity grid and water. Last month, State Vice-President Saulos Chilima’s asked councils, water baorads and Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) to implement disaster-reduction […]
Malawi police in Ndirande Township, Blantyre are keeping in custody a former Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) employee and five security guards over stolen prepaid meters. Escom’s security officer, Henry Manyenje told police that in October this year officials from the parastatal discovered one unregistered ESCOM pre-paid meter in Chirimba Blantyre. Management instructed their […]
Amid power blackout woes in Malawi, chief executive officer for the embattled power utility company, Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Evelyn Mwapasa, has been fired. According to an internal memo signed by Escom’s director of human resources and administration, D. Z. Namandwa, the new man at the helm is Dr. Alexion Chiwaya. Dr. Chiwaya […]
Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi ( ESCOM) has devised plans to set up National Call Centre in a bid to improve service delivery to its customers as well as align itself to international standards, Nyasa Times has learnt. The plan comes amid complaints from its customers over poor service delivery evidenced by the forgoing power […]
“Don’t let a thief into your house three times. The first time was enough. The second time was a chance. The third time means you’re stupid.” –C. JoyBell C- An American Thinker, Writer and Mentor The bottom line to the hard hitting sentiments from Malawi Congress Party (MCP) President Lazarus Chakwera is that this country has […]
Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom), the distributor of electricity, has affected a ban against advertising title of the giant news organisation Times Group deemed critical of government. Times Group publishes the Daily Times, Malawi News, Sunday Times, broadcast on Times Radio and Times TV. The media giant has been critical to Escom and its “comrade in crime” […]
Geneva-based social-economic commentator Stanley Kenani has backed leader of opposition in Parliament Lazarus Chakwera who has dared President Peter Mutharika to demonstrate seriousness to resolve the energy crisis facing the country by fast-tracking interim solutions to extended power outages but a group of individuals sympathetic with the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) calling themselves Concerned Citizens has registered […]