Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has said it expects Malawians to reap more from the construction of new power substation at Nkhoma in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n
MCC Chief Executive Officer Dana Hyde made the remarks in Lilongwe on Monday during a groundbreaking ceremony of the substation, which is being constructed under MCC\u2019s US$350 million compact.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis line will move large quantities of electricity from where it is generated in Southern Malawi to Central Malawi and eventually to northern Malawi. Along its path, the line will empower communities and unlock economic growth,\u201d Hyde said.<\/p>\n
She said the line and other elements of the Compact\u2019s infrastructure project will increase the capacity of Malawi\u2019s grid by some 500 megawatts, enough to more than double the amount of electricity that Malawi produces.<\/p>\n
Hyde added that the new substations being constructed under the compact will create a potential for Malawi to connect to power networks in Mozambique and Zambia, thereby fulfilling the dream of regional integration.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat means more reliable supply of power for Malawians, and it paves way for a day when Malawi can even export power to its neighbours. And finally, this line will build a foundation and improvement of Malawi\u2019s power supply. Escom will be able to deliver better service, and independent power producers will use this line to transmit new electricity to farms, to businesses and to homes,\u201d Hyde said.<\/p>\n
The 400 kV overhead power line will take off from Phombeya in Balaka to the Nkhoma substation where it will land and then downrated to 132kV and transmitted to Bunda Turn-off substation.<\/p>\n
Minister of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining, Bright Msaka, thanked the US government for the support.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thank President Barak Obama, the people and the US Government for this exceedingly generous donation to Malawi. We kindly request you to heartily convey these sentiments to your government upon your return\u2026.in 2007 Malawi qualified for MCA Compact. We decided that the energy sector was the biggest constraints for our development. We were right then and we are now,\u201d Msaka said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has said it expects Malawians to reap more from the construction of new power substation at Nkhoma in Lilongwe. MCC Chief Executive Officer Dana Hyde made the remarks in Lilongwe on Monday during a groundbreaking ceremony of the substation, which is being constructed under MCC\u2019s US$350 million compact. \u201cThis line will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24121,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24117\/revisions\/24121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}