Chief Executive Officer for Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) John Kandulu yesterday told the local media that the country will continue to experience serial blackouts as the problem with the machines at its power plants has not been fully addressed.
Accumulation of silt at Nkula power plantation A and B due to heavy rainfall two weeks ago, forced the power generating body to remove machines which were supplying 124 megawatts of Electricity.
ESCOM embarked on road shedding in order to give an equal taste of energy to consumers as they address the problem.
Kandulu said,” We are trying hard to get things back to normal but as of now the country will have to persevere power shortage, I am not sure as to when we are going to get over the problem but let us hope it will be sooner, ESCOM is currently losing K4.1million due to extraction of the machines”.
Yesterday the media reported that 60 megawatts of the 124 which was sacrificed has been restored and this means only 64 megawatts is remaining.
With the current power situation in the country, ESCOM is acting as back up for gen sets which industries are running on most of the hours.
Electricity instability has affected industrial work to a greater extent that service deliverers have more losses to make than profits.
To most Malawians this problem does not come as a surprise because even when there is no big problem, electricity goes off now and then.