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

We operate 27 power system in 27 islands, providing electricity to 43% 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 61.42MW, and a 26 km underground 11kV distribution network feeding power to 99 distribution transformers to provide electricity to 33,341 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 79.2MW, 471 employees and a customer base of 41,743 (as at August 2012).