{"id":36636,"date":"2022-12-13T22:55:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T22:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout"},"modified":"2022-12-14T00:07:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T00:07:59","slug":"escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout","title":{"rendered":"ESCOM investigating cause of today\u2019s nationwide blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) says it is is investigating the actual cause of a system failure that led to a nationwide blackout this morning.<\/p>\n

ESCOM\u2019s system shut down suddenly at 11:44 this morning, causing power outage all over Malawi. In a statement, ESCOM has said it still investigating the actual cause of the system failure.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, preliminary findings show that a technical problem caused the system shutdown,\u201d reads part of the statement from ESCOM. System shutdowns causing nationwide blackouts have occurred several times this year, including in August when a nationwide blackout lasted 12 hours.<\/p>\n

Malawi is also experiencing low electricity supply following damage at Kapichira Power Plant. Due to the damage, ESCOM customers do not have power for at least six hours per day. The Lazarus Chakwera administration promised Malawians that these daily blackouts will end in December this year.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Malawi<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) says it is is investigating the actual cause of a system failure that led to a nationwide blackout this morning. ESCOM\u2019s system shut down suddenly at 11:44 this morning, causing power outage all over Malawi. In a statement, ESCOM has said it still investigating the actual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":36635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[233,371,3956,129,1780,234],"class_list":["post-36636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-blackouts","tag-electricity","tag-escom","tag-malawi"],"yoast_head":"\nESCOM investigating cause of today\u2019s nationwide blackout - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) says it is is investigating the actual cause of a system failure that l ...\" \/>\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\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ESCOM investigating cause of today\u2019s nationwide blackout\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) says it is is investigating the actual cause of a system failure that l ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout\" \/>\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=\"2022-12-13T22:55:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-14T00:07:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670959561.68.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\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\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"ESCOM investigating cause of today\u2019s nationwide blackout\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-13T22:55:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-14T00:07:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout\"},\"wordCount\":162,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670959561.68.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Blackouts\",\"electricity\",\"ESCOM\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout\",\"name\":\"ESCOM investigating cause of today\u2019s nationwide blackout - Malawi\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670959561.68.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-13T22:55:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-14T00:07:59+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) says it is is investigating the actual cause of a system failure that l ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670959561.68.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670959561.68.jpg\",\"width\":750,\"height\":400,\"caption\":\"ESCOM investigating cause of today\u2019s nationwide blackout\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"ESCOM investigating cause of today\u2019s nationwide blackout\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/\",\"name\":\"Malawi\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"ESCOM investigating cause of today\u2019s nationwide blackout - Malawi","description":"Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) says it is is investigating the actual cause of a system failure that l ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"ESCOM investigating cause of today\u2019s nationwide blackout","og_description":"Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) says it is is investigating the actual cause of a system failure that l ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout","og_site_name":"Malawi","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-12-13T22:55:34+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-12-14T00:07:59+00:00","og_image":[{"width":750,"height":400,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670959561.68.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"ESCOM investigating cause of today\u2019s nationwide blackout","datePublished":"2022-12-13T22:55:34+00:00","dateModified":"2022-12-14T00:07:59+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout"},"wordCount":162,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670959561.68.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Malawi","Blackouts","electricity","ESCOM","Malawi"],"articleSection":["all news","economy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout","name":"ESCOM investigating cause of today\u2019s nationwide blackout - Malawi","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670959561.68.jpg","datePublished":"2022-12-13T22:55:34+00:00","dateModified":"2022-12-14T00:07:59+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) says it is is investigating the actual cause of a system failure that l ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670959561.68.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670959561.68.jpg","width":750,"height":400,"caption":"ESCOM investigating cause of today\u2019s nationwide blackout"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/escom-investigating-cause-of-todays-nationwide-blackout#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"ESCOM investigating cause of today\u2019s nationwide blackout"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/","name":"Malawi","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}