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Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) has donated COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) wor ...
The 18 Megawatts (MW) Tedzani IV Hydropower Station which is currently under construction is 95% ready with all the ...
Dredging of the water reservoir at Kapichira Power Station is progressing well with approximately 600 thousand cubic ...
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The Government of Malawi will play a huge role to ensure that Wovwe Power Station is up ...
The newly appointed Minister of Energy, Hon. Newton Kambala on Tuesday, 21st July 2020, visited EGENCO’s Tedzani an ...
The Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) has responded to the outbr ...
As a company, EGENCO has earmarked a number of projects to increase power generation capacity. In the next one to five years, EGENCO plans to aggressively pursue projects that can double the power generation capacity in the country.
Scope: The project involves installation of a 20MW solar PV plant.
The project entails procurement and installation of additional 10MW of the Peaking Diesel Generation Sets at Kanengo.
Scope: The project involves capital dredging at Tedzani Intake reservoir and diverting a stream thatdeposits silt into the reservoir downstream of the barrage.
Scope: The project involves coming with specifications, designing, manufacturing, installation, testing and commissioning of generation plant.
Scope: The project involves construction of a dredged material disposal area.
Scope: The project involves design and construction of trash diversion at Nkula Intake.
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Tedzani Hydro Power Station is located on the Shire River, 7 Km downstream of Nkula Hydro Power stations. It comprises of three Power Stations: Tedzani I, Tedzani II and Tedzani III Hydro Power Stations. Tedzani I & II are housed in one Power House.
The Kapichira Hydro-electric Power Station is located at the Kapichira Falls, formerly known as the Livingstone Falls; named after the all-great Scottish Missionary, Dr. David Livingstone, who once passed through these falls.
Wovwe Power Station is located in Karonga District, 17km off Uliwa Trading Centre (along M1 road) to the West, in the Northern Region of Malawi. It is built on Wovwe river, upstream of Wovwe Rice Scheme and the catchment area of the river is in Nyika National Park.
Due to increased demand of electricity in the country coupled with limited generation capacity in the hydro power stations, EGENCO runs Diesel power plants in order to suffices demand during peak periods.
Nkula Power Station is the first major hydro power station in Malawi. It comprises of Nkula A with 3 machines, each rated 11.7MW, and Nkula B with 5 machines, each rated 20MW. The last machine in Nkula A was commissioned in 1966 where as the last machine in Nkula B was commissioned in 1992.