Electricity improving: Malawians to have 14 hours of power

Jan 08, 2018 Top News 86
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After supplying power for 8 hours a day in the last months of 2017, the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) has revised the load shedding program from 8 hours of electricity to 14 hours of power supply.

According to ESCOM, the change in the load shedding program is due to the improvement of the power capacity available for distribution to customers.

Electricity supply improving in Malawi.

The power supplier says available power capacity is an average of 205 Megawatts from the previous average of 150 Megawatts and in the newly released 2 cycle load shedding program, customers have been divided into 2 groups, A and B.

“The Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) is informing its valued customers of the change of the load shedding program from the 3 cycle 8 hours-power supply and 16 hours-load shedding, to a 2 cycle 14 hours-power supply and 10 hours-load shedding model.

“The change in the load shedding program is due to the improvement of the power capacity available for distribution to customers. In any given day, the first group to be load shed is switched off from 4 am to 2 pm and the second group to be load shed is switched off from 1 pm to 10 pm allowing for a one (1) hour switching operation time,” says ESCOM in a statement.

ESCOM has also notified its customers that during the course of the week, implementation of the published electricity management programme may be adjusted in response to the actual power available for distribution to customers.

Customers are also being advised that not all loss of power supply is load shedding, and that they may experience loss of power supply due to fault.

Therefore, customers are encouraged to report to Faults Reporting Centers whenever they have a fault or when they experience loss of power supply for a prolonged duration beyond that in the published Electricity Management Programme (EMP).

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86 Comments

  12. “Amati mau ankhalamba akoma akagonela”…………..Do we say APM is a lier?…….Nope, he is just doing whats on paper and said!!!!!!!…

  13. Koma ndimakumbuka Abusa ena ake adati,(Muzose mwapatsidwa kwa inu,yamikani AMBUYE).
    Ntchito zabwino sizingayendele limodzi ndi zoipa ngati mdima sudachiteko chibwezi ndi kuwala.Chitsilu olo mutachitibula bwanji mutha kungochipweteka simungachotse uchitsiluwo.Wosayamika sadzayamika basi.

  14. This president of Malawi I he must just liv cos he don’t know how to run the country. what is the problem exactly is it the money or something else

  35. to all ya hu r sayn atleast…betther..all yall r dome n stupid I think dis escom pipo they nided our attention by sayn dat n plsss malawi24 stop fckn posting kak

  36. ine sindingathokoze escom but mulungu wammwambayo pobweresa mvula kut anyani ena adzionetse ngat amatha ntchto yet miyezi yapitayi zimawanyera kumangoyatsa magets 3hrs outof 24hrs pano akut tawonjezera mphavu zopusa bas mmxxiiiii

  38. Aaah! Kodi ma gensets aja alikuti u promised us kuti ayamba kugwira ntchito December and we are in January now, u are still singing Load shedding! Load shedding!! Tikamati u are pathological liars muzitiopsezanso??

    3. Kukhala cadeti if u think sounds bad let me remind you that its what doo youth are hahaha.and nthawi ya kamuzu magetsi anali in cities only and anthu anali ochepa,7 million pano we are talking 18 million.wamva kape was youth

    4. Kkkkkk!Koma umbuli sizinthu ai!Anthu 18 million onsewo amakhala mnyumba za magetsi?Mbuzi iwe!Zoti Malawi muno only 12% of the total population use electricity siukudziwa mende iwe?Upite kumudzi kwanu ukawelenge nyumba za magetsi fisi iwe!Panopa amai ako akuunikira matsekera komaso magetsi sanawaonepo ai!Usadzalembeso masazi akowa!Wamva bulutu iwe?

    5. Mbuzi iwe so if only 12℅ of Malawians are using electricity nowadays so how many Malawians had electricity during kamuzus era,only 2%. And hear this kape makolo anga anabadwira ntown and kumuzi kwathu almost 40% of houses Ali ndi magetsi.hahaha vuto lake makape ngati inu u just talk koma kwanu palibe chaphindu chomwe munapanga. Ur still waiting for gvt.mbuli iwe imva izi kumudzi kwathu anthu amauser ma computers in xuls.

  48. Hello am managing my own company the company opened on Last year here in south Africa The company is running Electricity I have been contact Malawi Eskom to give me sub contractor but the don’t reply why Malawi you take job give to the foreigner but there citizen who the can do the job if the give CITY POWER contractor you will never hear that Power went off because of Transformer poops never pls support your Own Malawi not south Africa the must support Malawian while Malawian the don’t support each other the company runned by Chisomo Mkwepu. Company Name City Power pls let’s light the City with Power the power is Electricity

  53. 14 or 8…. Still soundx the same we nid O day… 24 hr… Y r they talking as if they r duing us a feva…? Nditchitoyawo aftr O magex timalipira….. Sitikufuna azithima..!

    2. its better than last months as they managed to provide us less than 8 hrs a day–so having 14 hrs electr. is better than before

    2. You pple have gone crazy, is there any reason 4being sympathytic here? Let them provide us with enough powr. Just imagne, magetsi kumakuthimira barberman atangometa mbali imodzi, and usay that is welldone, huh? Mmmmmh.

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