Day: December 19, 2023

By Peter Kanjere, ESCOM PRO The Director of Legal Affairs and Company Secretary (DLACS) for ESCOM Limited, counsel Sally Mtambo, has urged controlling officers for the power utility company to ensure compliance with section 37 of the Electricity Act by reporting cases of accidents in a timely manner. The section reads: “A licensee shall send to the Authority notice of any accident of such a kind as to have caused, or are likely to have caused, loss of life or serious personal injury which has occurred in

By Peter Kanjere, ESCOM PRO Two new transformers were switched on at Kanengo Sub-station in Lilongwe on December 10 2023, as the Improvement of Lilongwe Sub-stations Project gathered momentum. Bernard Nkhulawe, the project’s manager for ESCOM Limited, said the energizing of the two transformers signals that the work to upgrade Kanengo and Lilongwe Old stations was on track. “We are connecting two transformers. There is transformer number 4. This one is 132kV to 66kV and it is rated 50MVA. We call it IBT number 4. This will

By Peter Kanjere, ESCOM PRO Songs and jokes that border on obscenity have no place in Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Limited, as they perpetuate Gender-Based Violence (GBV). ESCOM Limited Chief Operations Officer, Eng. Maxwell Mulimakwenda, said this in his speech when he opened a virtual conference for the corporation’s members of staff to commemorate 16 Days of Activism Against GBV from 1:30pm on December 6 2023. Mulimakwenda said time for suffering in silence when subjected to GBV at the workplace in ESCOM has ended. “We

By Cosmas Kaunga, ESCOM Outreach Officer Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Limited says it has suspended the electricity price hike on domestic customers until April 1 2024. Speaking in Blantyre, Honourable Ibrahim Matola, Minister of Energy, said on November 9 2023 Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) announced an increase in electricity prices by 40.92 percent following an application of Automatic Tariff Adjustment Formula (ATAF). Matola said MERA provides for an automatic tariff adjustment whenever the economic fundamentals deviate by a minimum of plus or minus 5

By Cosmas Kaunga, ESCOM Outreach Officer Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Limited Chief Operations Officer (COO), Mr Maxwell Mulimakwenda, says the first phase of the Token Identifier (TID) Project has been successful after upgrading 40 percent of the targeted electricity meters. Mulimakwenda said this on Friday, November 24 2023, in Lilongwe where the power utility company organized a tour for the media in Areas 36 and 47, to appreciate the progress of the project. He said 214,000 prepaid meters have been upgraded in all the cities

By Cosmas Kaunga, ESCOM Outreach Officer Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Limited and Blantyre Water Board (BWB) conducted yet another HIV/AIDS and Wellness workshop from November 20 to 23 2023 in Lilongwe. The two parastatals carried out a similar workshop at St John of God in Mzuzu from January 30 to February 1 2023. The latest workshop, which pulled together heads of secti ons and peer educators from ESCOM and BWB, was aimed at equipping the participants with knowledge of the preventive measures and management of