Press Releases

OUTAGE OF TEDZANI POWER STATION FOR TRASH REMOVAL

Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) wishes to notify all stakeholders and the public that there will be an outage of Tedzani Power station on Sunday, 1 December 2024 from 07h00 to 16h00 to facilitate removal of trash from course and fine screens at Tedzani intake. The outage of Tedzani will result in unavailability of 121MW generation capacity to...

MAINTENANCE WORKS AT NKULA POWER STATION

The Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) is informing all stakeholders and the general public that it will carry out planned maintenance works at its Nkula Power Station on Sunday, 17 November 2024, from 5 O’clock in the morning to 5 O’clock in the evening. The works will involve repairing of a damaged spillway gate and installation new fine...

REDUCED POWER SUPPLY AT LIKOMA AND CHIZUMULU ISLANDS DUE TO FUEL SHORTAGES

The Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) is informing its customers and stakeholders at Likoma and Chizumulu Islands that there will be reduced power supply at the Islands from 5th November 2024 due to fuel shortages for operating its diesel power plants. EGENCO uses diesel power plants to supplement the solar power system, which it uses to provide electricity to...

OUTAGE OF KAPICHIRA FOR DAM INSPECTION AND MAINTENANCE

Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) wishes to notify all stakeholders and the public that there will be an outage of Kapichira Power Station on Sunday, 29th September 2024 from 07h00 to 17h00 to carryout inspection and maintenance of dam structures at the intake. The inspection and maintenance of the dam structures seek to achieve the following objectives: Maintain a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

UPDATE ON POWER GENERATION

Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) wishes to update all stakeholders and the public on power generation status after cyclone Freddy. As of 28 March 2023, we have managed to stabilize the generation system with all the machines at Nkula and Tedzani Power Stations now available. We had difficulties running all Tedzani III and Nkula A machines because of excessive...