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DisCos to replace faulty, obsolete meters – NERC

Vanguard News DisCos to replace faulty, obsolete meters – NERC On File: Prepaid meters The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Friday,  said that Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) may replace faulty and obsolete meters for their customers. The commission made this known in Order No. NERC/246/2021 signed by its Chairman , Mr Sanusi Garba and Mr Dafe Akpeneye, Commissioner Legal, Licensing and compliance on its website in Abuja. NERC said that the Order No. NERC/246/2021 took effect from March 4.   “DisCos may replace faulty/obsolete meters under the National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP) but must be done in strict compliance with the Metering Code and other regulatory instruments of NERC, ‘’ it said.

NERC orders DisCos to replace obsolete meters

Nigeria s long road to metering: Who bears the brunt?

One of the many challenges facing Nigeria’s electric power sector is the issue of metering. From being a pre-privatisation problem, lack of metering has evolved to be a more sophisticated post-privatisation feature skirting the corridors of the Nigerian power sector for the last few years. Statistics show that the number of unmetered customers across Nigeria has continued to rise. In 2016, a metering status report from the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) showed that about 3 million of the registered accounts of customers were unmetered. In 2017, this number grew as NERC reported that over 4 million unmetered customers. In 2019, a NERC report showed that over 5 million Nigerians were unmetered and this number has continued to rise.

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