Africa-Press – Malawi. There are concerns over safety of Electricity Generation Company (EGENCO) workers who are removing debris at the company’s power stations. A video posted on social media show workers, wearing reflector vests and standing about a metre from raging waters, removing debris with bare hands at a power station.
On Twitter, Edgar Beyani described the work as risky and called on the company to find a way to mechanize the process. Floods caused by Tropical Storm Ana have affected EGENCO’s power stations in the Southern Region.
The company has been forced to shut down 129MW Kapichira Power Station due to damage of its intake. At Nkula Power Station, excessive trash is still being deposited to intakes.
EGENCO said yesterday that one of its trash-raking machine got stuck under water due to excessive trash and differential pressure created by such amounts of trash.
Last night, the company announced plans to shut down Nkula B Power Station in order to retrieve the trash-raking machine and send divers to inspect the underwater trash screening equipment so that we ascertain the condition of the trash screens to ensure adequate protection of the machines.
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