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 from the intake structure during Cyclone Freddy and the trash rake bucket got stuck underwater at the bottom of the intake, during trash raking operations in February 2023.

To install new replacement fine screens and retrieve the trashrake bucket, the works require that the station’s reservoir be drained to allow for a safe working environment for Engineers and Divers. As such, there will be no power generation at Tedzani Power Station during the stated period.

Furthermore, there will be reduced power generation at both Nkula and Kapichira power Stations due to low water flow in the Shire River. We shall have to reduce the river flows at Kamuzu Barrage in Liwonde to further facilitate safe work environment at Tedzani.
It is important to carry out these works to ensure that intake screens are in perfect working condition before onset of the rainy season. The intake screens are a critical component of the intake infrastructure that prevent trash and debris from entering water tunnels and consequently damaging turbine underwater parts.

The public may wish to know that these works could not be carried out earlier because of unavailability of Kapichira Power Station and persistent high water flows in Shire River.

EGENCO sincerely regrets any inconvenience these maintenance works may cause.