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February 5, 2021
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Friday said 62.63 per cent of electricity consumers in the country were on estimated billing as at September 2020.
NERC stated this in the 2019 to Quarter 3, 2020 Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) Key Financial and Operational Data, obtained from its website by newsmen in Lagos.
The document showed that only Eko Electricity Distribution Company and Ikeja Electric Plc had metered over 50 per cent of their customers as at the review period.
The huge metering gap for electricity customers, according to NERC, remains a key challenge in the industry.
The data showed that out of the 11,841,819 registered electricity customers as at the end of the third quarter of 2020, only 4,425, 628 (37.37 per cent) have been metered.
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Ignatius Okpara, he spoke on how his Blueprint, which he referred to as his intellectual property was alledgdly “stolen” by Heineken via the Nigerian Breweries. The Blueprint which he invented some years ago and won the approval of the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission NERC was to be deployed to solve power challenges in the country, especially the high tariff, energy theft among others. The development had since derailed the project whose pilot scheme was to begin with the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, (EEDC).
Speaking on the concerns of rising electrical accidents in Nigeria, Mr Nagode said, “We were with NERC recently and NERC is equally concerned because of the level of accidents.”
He said NERC is working to ensure that operators of the private-led power firms adopted NAPTIN safety syllabus for training.
Another collaboration of the institute with NERC, the power sector regulator, is on metering which Nagode said NAPTIN was enabled to ensure the training of all meter installers.
The DG said NAPTIN trains power sector workers and fresh electrical and mechanical engineering graduates under the National Graduate Skills Development Programme (NGSDP).
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By Prince Okafor
Despite the Federal Government’s intervention targeted at addressing the Electricity Distribution Companies, DisCos shortfalls through the provision of prepaid meters, there are indications that residents under Eko Electricity Distribution Company, EKEDC, networks pay as high as N15,000 to acquire prepaid meter forms from marketing staff.
An investigation by Energy Vanguard showed that the practice by the DisCos became more obvious after some marketers attached to various areas across the state disclosed that from February there would be a massive distribution of prepaid meters.
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