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OUTAGE OF NKULA A & B POWER STATIONS FOR MAINTENANCE WORKS

END OF OUTAGE OF NKULA A & B POWER STATIONS Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) wishes to notify all stakeholders and the public that it has concluded maintenance works that it was undertaking at Nkula B, effectively ending outage of both Nkula A and B power stations. Nkula B dislodged Intake Screens have been replaced successfully. Similarly, the inspection...

MAINTENANCE WORKS AT TEDZANI POWER STATION

Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) wishes to inform its Stakeholders and the general public that the Company will carry out maintenance works at its Tedzani Hydro Power Station on 7th January 2024 from 06:00am to 04:00pm. The works will involve retrieving of a trash rake bucket and inspection of intake screens at the Power Station’s intake dam. The trash...

Minister Matola symbolically installs a solar panel

EGENCO KICK-STARTS A 10MW SOLAR POWER PROJECT

Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) on Wednesday 22 November 2023 launched the construction and installation works of a 10 Megawatt Solar Power Plant in Salima District. Speaking after launching the construction of the project, Minister of Energy, Hon. Ibrahim Matola, commended EGENCO for diversifying its energy sources and urged for further diversification. “EGENCO must pursue other alternative sources of energy...

LAUNCH OF 10 MW SALIMA SOLAR POWER PROJECT

HARNESSING THE SUN – DIVERSIFYING POWER SOURCES Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) wishes to inform all its stakeholders and the general public that the company will hold a ground breaking ceremony of the 10 Megawatt Salima Solar Power Project on Wednesday, 22 November 2023 at Nanjoka in Salima district. The ceremony will be presided over by the Minister...

EGENCO SPONSORS 2023 NATIONAL ENERGY CONFERENCE

Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) on Monday 23rd October 2023 presented a K3 million cheque to the Renewable Energy Industries Association of Malawi (REIAMA) as part of its sponsorship towards the 2023 National Energy Conference that will take place in Salima from 26 to 27 October 2023. Speaking during the ceremony, EGENCO Acting Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Maxon Chitawo,...

OUTAGE OF NKULA A AND B POWER STATIONS FOR MAINTENANCE WORKS

Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) wishes to notify all stakeholders and the public that there will be an outage of Nkula A and B from Saturday, 21st October 2023, 07h00 to Sunday, 22 October 2023, 17h00 to replace Nkula B dislodged Intake Screens. The work will require complete shutdown of both Nkula A and B and lowering of the...

EGENCO MOVES TO EXPLORE GEOTHERMAL ENERGY – SIGNS COLLABORATION AGREEMENT WITH KENYAN COMPANY

In a bid to diversify its energy generation sources, the Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) has signed a Collaboration Framework Agreement (CFA) with Kenya’s Geothermal Development Company (GDC) aimed at accelerating the development of geothermal energy in Malawi. “We are happy to collaborate with GDC as we seek to diversify our energy sources.” Said William Liabunya, EGENCO’s Chief Executive...

REDUCED POWER GENERATION DUE TO MAJOR MAINTENANCE WORKS AT TEDZANI POWER STATION

Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) wishes to notify all stakeholders and the public that it will carry out major maintenance works at Tedzani Power Station from Saturday 26th to Monday 28th August 2023. The works will involve installation of new fine screens and retrieving of a trashrake bucket at the power station’s intake. Two Tedzani fine screens were dislodged...

DEPUTY US AMBASSADOR TO MALAWI VISITS KAPICHIRA POWER STATION

The Deputy United States of America (USA) Ambassador to Malawi, Amy Diaz, visited Kapichira Power Station on Tuesday, 4th July 2023, to appreciate the effects of climate change on power generation and how EGENCO has recovered following the damage of Kapichira by Tropical Cyclone Anna in January 2022. Deputy Ambassador, Amy Diaz, being briefed by the Project Manager at the...

APUA DELEGATES VISIT 60MW JCM SOLAR POWER PLANT

As part of the 57th APUA Annual Meetings held in Lilongwe- Malawi, the host utility Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) organized a technical and touristic visit to JCM’s Salima Solar plant in the lakeshore district of Salima. The central theme of this year’s APUA meetings was on Africa’s energy transition from fossil fuels to clean source energy. To sum...