Four men arrested for impersonating ESCOM employees
Four people have been arrested in Lilongwe for allegedly engaging in theft and illegal connections while impersonating Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) employees.-By Peter Kanjere, ESCOM PRO
VANDALISM CAUSED THE BLACKOUT
By Cosmas Kaunga, ESCOM Outreach Officer.
On the night of 9th November 2022 at 7:33pm Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) experienced a national power blackout which lasted 1hour 26minutes.
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workers go a long way to ensure that customers access power all day every day. technicians work around the clock in challenging environments.
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Escom power transmission project gets K759m boost
Swedfund International has given Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) a $745 000 (about K759 million) grant for the rehabilitation and implementation of two transmission lines in the Central and Northern regions.
ESCOM has signed Power Purchase Agreements with two Independent Power Producers, JCM Matswani Solar Corp and Mulanje Hydro Limited who will add a total of 88 MW to the power system between January 2019 to December 2019 through Solar and Hydro power generation.
Malawi has switched ON the Chipata-Mchinji 33kV power line which gives the country 20MW of power from Zambia as part of interventions to deal with power challenges besetting the country.
ESCOM Limited has been rehabilitating it's Kanengo and Old Town Substations with the help of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
At the moment, 96 percent works have been completed at Kanengo Substation and JICA is ready to partially hand over the substation to ESCOM.
How brave ESCOM linespersons averted a disaster in Mangochi
It had just rained briefly on that afternoon of Tuesday, October 17 2023 in Mangochi Town. A few hours later, a power pole cross arm on one of the electricity poles, located on Mangochi-Liwonde Road, caught fire.