Africa-Press – Malawi. Malawians should expect more power outages from Monday April 25 to Friday April 29, 2022 as the country’s power generating company, Electricity Generation Company Malawi Limited (EGENCO) will shutdown 19.1 Megawatts of its Tedzani IV power station.
In a statement, EGENCO says the move is to pave a way for maintenance works at the said power station as the rocks boulders blocked the machine’s tailrace also known as water exist channel due to Cyclone Ana.
This is making difficult for the maintenance team to close the water channel when they want to dewater it during the maintenance works. The company says the works will therefore, involve building an isolating wall around the mouth of the machine’s exist channel to create a dry working area and facilitate removal of the rock boulders.
“The works are coinciding with a one year anniversary of the machine’s commissioning and will enable the Tedzani IV Project Consultants (TEPSCO) and contractors carry out contractual machine inspection and warranty repairs during the same period,” reads the statement in part.
Meanwhile, the company says in order to minimize the impact of outage and inconvenience to the public, it will use its diesel generators to supplement the available hydro-power station. Adding that it has also commissioned one machine at its Tedzani II station ( 10MW) which was undergoing rehabilitation works since December 2021.
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