electricity supply corporation of malawi ltd. escom type public industry electricity founded 1998 headquarters blantyre malawi parent state owned website escom official website electricity supply corporation of malawi ltd. escom is the state owned power producing company in malawi . it is entirely in control of generation transmission and distribution of electric power in the country . escom represents malawi in the southern african power pool . it is not to be confused with its south african equivalent eskom . nearly 95 % of malawi s electricity supply is provided by hydropower from a cascaded group of interconnected hydroelectric power plants located on the middle part of shire river and a mini hydro on the wovwe river which constitute the interconnected system . total installed capacity of these hydropower plants is 285.82 mw thus 281.5 mw for main hydro and 4.32 mw of mini hydro wovwe . the hydroelectric schemes on the shire river are all of run of the river type . some thermal power plants serve as stand by for the interconnected system a 15 mw gas turbine plant in blantyre and a 1.1 mw diesel power plant in mzuzu . likoma district has two separate isolated systems with a total installed thermal power plants capacity of 1.050 mw . 1 power generation is however not meeting demand and rolling blackouts are scheduled routinely . see also edit list of power stations in malawi references edit escom website generation business unit . retrieved 2010 11 18 . nkula b 100mw ; nkula a 24mw ; tedzani i & ii 40mw ; tedzani iii 52.7 mw ; kapichira 64.8 mw ; wovwe 4.32 mw external links edit escom official website this article about a company or corporation involved in the energy industry is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this malawi related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title electricity supply commission of malawi & oldid 737061749 categories power companies of malawienergy company stubsmalawi stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 31 august 2016 at 14 36 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view