State Electric Company Ltd, STELCO, is wholly owned by the Government of Maldives. Our core business includes power generation, distribution and retail.

We operate 23 power system in 23 islands, providing electricity to 50% of the population of the country. Each power system is independent with its own power generation and distribution infrastructure.

STELCO has its largest operation in Male’, the capital of Maldives, with an installed capacity of 48.36MW, and a 26 km underground 11kV distribution network feeding power to 99 distribution transformers to provide electricity to 42,478 customers.

Marine gas oil is the only fuel used for power generation and exhaust heat from the power station is used by an ME desalination plant with a daily production capacity of 150 tones per day to produce water for Male’ power station’s use.

Today STELCO has an installed capacity of 48.36MW, 471 employees and a customer base of 42,487 (as at March 2012).