The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this on Saturday in Lagos at a meeting with Online Publishers.
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The NERC Commissioner for Finance and Management Services, Nathan Shatti, stated the position of the Commission during a live programme on: “Meters and metering.”
Its Public Relations Officer, Gideon Balogun, on Wednesday in Lagos decried the tariffs increment as announced by the electricity Distribution Companies on September 1.
Goddy Jedy-Agba, the Minister of State Power, said this in Abuja on Tuesday, while inaugurating the First 12 Kilo Watts Peak Volus Solar for Health Mini-Grid with 58 KWH Battery Bank at Karu Primary Health Centre, initiated by Volus Energy Limited.
Prof. James Momoh, Chairman, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, said the president’s directive was in response to yearnings of Nigerians.
The position of the DisCos was made known in a statement issued by Sunday Oduntan, the Executive Director, Research and Advocacy, Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors, in Abuja on Sunday.
The victory followed a file for defence and notice of preliminary objection to strike out the suit by the company’s legal team as the claimants failed to follow the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission’s procedure in resolving such issues.
NERC, which is the regulator of the Nigerian Power Supply Industry, made its intention known in a notice issued to the DisCos, according to a post on its official Twitter account on Tuesday.
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission on Saturday said 62.3 per cent of electricity consumers in the country were still on estimated billing as at December 2019.
NERC made this known in its Fourth Quarter 2019 Report, which was obtained from its website by the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
The commission said: “Inadequate metering remains a serious challenge in the industry, with only 3,918,322 (37.77 per cent ) of the total customer population of 10,374,597
metered.
“With 62.37 per cent of the end-use customers on estimated billing, huge collection losses due to customer apathy have posed a serious challenge to the viability and sustainability of the industry.”
It said in comparison to the third quarter of 2019, the number of registered and metered customers increased by 699,850 (7.23 per cent) and 22,825 (0.59 per cent) respectively.
NERC said the increase in the number of registered customers was attributable to the ongoing enumeration exercise by DisCos, while the increase in metered customers was due to the roll-out of meters under the Meter Asset Provider schemes.
It said: “The commission notes with concern that the additional 22,825 end-use customers’ meters installed during the fourth quarter fell significantly from the 83,768 meters installed during the third quarter.
“This poses risk to the Commission’s goal of closing the metering gap in Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) by Dec. 31, 2021.
“Although some MAPs have not fully commenced meter deployments, the low metering recorded during the quarter was partly due to the increase of 35 per cent in import duty on meter components.”
NERC said it was already working with the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning toward addressing those issues in order to fast-track meters roll-out.
It said during the period under review, only Abuja, Eko, Enugu, Ikeja, Kaduna and Port Harcourt DisCos metered additional customers.
According to NERC, the metering status of the DisCos as at December 2019 is: Benin DisCo, 53.71 per cent; Abuja, 52.39 per cent; Eko, 46.67 per cent; Ikeja, 40.38 per cent; and Jos, 31.71 per cent.
Others are: Port Harcourt, 38.34 per cent; Ibadan, 32.21 per cent; Kaduna, 22.2 per cent; Kano, 18.36 per cent; Enugu, 41.26 per cent; and Yola, 18.75 per cent.
The commission said it would continue to monitor the DisCos to ensure total compliance with the MAP regulations.
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has constituted a “Nigeria Electricity Supply Industry Situation Room” led by its Commissioners, Top Management Staff and System Operators.
The Minister of Power, Sale Mamman, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday
The assembly also urged the EEDC management to adhere to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission’s provision on the rights of consumers in adherence to Part III, Section 352 of the metering code
The News Agency of Nigeria gathered on Wednesday that the Discos — Eko Electricity Distribution Company and Ikeja Electric — have some 1,081 of such MDAs’ facilities within their networks in the state
Ayuba Wabba, the President Nigeria Labour Congress has called on the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission to direct Distribution Companies to stop estimated billing.
Momoh made the call on Saturday while delivering a Convocation Lecture titled: “Reform of the Power Sector in Nigeria,” at the African University of Science and Technology, Abuja
The Akwa Ibom Government has petitioned the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission over the alleged abysmal performance of Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company in the state.
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission on Monday said over five million Nigerian electricity consumers were unmetered.
Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission says that the 11 Electricity Distribution Companies remitted N55.1 billion of electricity invoice out of the total N162.5 billion they received in the third quarter of 2018.
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission said the 11 Electricity Distribution Companies received a total of 128,791 complaints from electricity consumers in the third quarter of 2018.
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission says only four out 11 Electricity Distribution Companies in the country have metered up to 50 per cent of customers under their franchise areas.