OUTAGE OF NKULA A & B POWER STATIONS FOR MAINTENANCE WORKS

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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 of Main Inlet Valve (MIV) for Machine Number 4 was successful and led to the discovery of a huge tree that was stuck under the MIV making it impossible to operate. The tree has since been removed successfully.

As at 00:15hrs, all machines at both stations were back online and normalization was complete.

We thank all our stakeholder and the public for your understanding and patience during this period. Once again EGENCO sincerely regrets any inconveniencies that may have been caused by the outage of Nkula A and B Power Stations.

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 06h00 on Saturday, 13th January 2024 to 17h00 on Monday, 15th January 2024 to replace Nkula B dislodged Intake Screens and inspection of Main Inlet Valve (MIV) for Machine Number 4.

The work will require complete shutdown of both Nkula A and B and lowering of the head-pond level to create safe working environment for the Engineers, Divers, Technicians and Welders during inspection and installation of trash screens at the intake. Furthermore, the work will require dewatering of the tunnel to conduct inspection and repair of MIV on machine number 4. This means 135.1MW will not be available for supply to the national grid during the stated period.

However, there will be power generation at both Tedzani and Kapichira and EGENCO will continue to run all available diesel generators during the outage to supplement the available hydro capacity.

EGENCO sincerely regrets any inconvenience that may be caused by the outage of Nkula Power Station.

OUTAGE OF NKULA A & B POWER STATIONS FOR MAINTENANCE WORKS

OUTAGE OF NKULA A & B POWER STATIONS FOR MAINTENANCE WORKS

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