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Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>The country\u2019s utility agency Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) on Tuesday, August 9, 2022 told the news conference that the corporation is in the verge of collapsing amid loses incurring when conducting business.<\/p>\n

ESCOM Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Kamkwamba Kumwenda shameless said there is a need to adjust upward end-user tariffs if the power utility body is to sustain its operations.<\/p>\n

Kumwenda observes that the state-owned power utility body has been operating at a loss, which cumulatively stands at MK112 billion since its unbundling in 2018.<\/p>\n

He disclosed that the company currently buys electricity from power producers at MK140 per kilowatt per hour but sells it to the end-user at MK104 per kilowatt per hour, a thing he said is crippling operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cEscom is dying. The choice is ours; either we close Escom or increase tariffs,\u201d Kumwenda said. ESCOM has not accepted the reforms of unbundling the utility body into three; Engenco and Power Market Limited.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Malawi. The country\u2019s utility agency Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) on Tuesday, August 9, 2022 told the news conference that the corporation is in the verge of collapsing amid loses incurring when conducting business. ESCOM Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Kamkwamba Kumwenda shameless said there is a need to adjust upward end-user tariffs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":29254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8],"tags":[233,371,234],"class_list":["post-29255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-malawi"],"yoast_head":"\nCrying baby ESCOM wants tariffs hike over unbundling loses - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The country\u2019s utility agency Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) on Tuesday, August 9, 2022 told the news c ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/crying-baby-escom-wants-tariffs-hike-over-unbundling-loses\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Crying baby ESCOM wants tariffs hike over unbundling loses\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The country\u2019s utility agency Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) on Tuesday, August 9, 2022 told the news c ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/crying-baby-escom-wants-tariffs-hike-over-unbundling-loses\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-16T20:01:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-16T21:01:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_13-62fc05ac26728.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"395\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/crying-baby-escom-wants-tariffs-hike-over-unbundling-loses#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/crying-baby-escom-wants-tariffs-hike-over-unbundling-loses\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Crying baby ESCOM wants tariffs hike over unbundling loses\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-16T20:01:28+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-16T21:01:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/crying-baby-escom-wants-tariffs-hike-over-unbundling-loses\"},\"wordCount\":176,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/crying-baby-escom-wants-tariffs-hike-over-unbundling-loses#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_13-62fc05ac26728.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/crying-baby-escom-wants-tariffs-hike-over-unbundling-loses#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/crying-baby-escom-wants-tariffs-hike-over-unbundling-loses\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/crying-baby-escom-wants-tariffs-hike-over-unbundling-loses\",\"name\":\"Crying baby ESCOM wants tariffs hike over unbundling loses - 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