2.9 million Nigerian households don't have electricity meter – NERC

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The 11 Electricity Distribution Companies (AEDC) in Nigeria are yet to meter about 2.9 million households since they began operating the network on November 1, 2013.

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Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) made this disclosure in a statement yesterday in Abuja while meeting with the DisCos to evaluate their performance on the Credited Advance Payment for Metering Initiative (CAPMI).

According to the Statistics, of the 403,255 meters procured since 2013, customers financed the installation of 251,531 meters which is about 100,000 higher than what the DisCos have procured as at March this year.

Although the companies  signed a pact with the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) and NERC to close the three million metering gap over two years ago, they have failed to reach even 200,000 .

Data submitted by the 11 DisCos to NERC indicates that there are 6.159million customers’ accounts as at December last year with 3.206miilon metered. The other 2.953million customers have remained unmetered thereby raising the concerns on the estimated billing system.

While Northern DisCos including Abuja, Jos, Kaduna, Kano and Yola claimed to have 1.973million customer base; Port Harcourt, Benin and Enugu Discos have 1,863,708 customers. In the west, Eko, Ikeja and Ibadan Discos have 2,322,376 customer accounts.

The acting Chairman of NERC, Dr. Anthony Akah said there are plans to wind up the CAPMI and urged the DisCos key into it as it was neglected in the past.

“It is criminal for DisCo who have not metered consumers under CAPMI since November 2013. Do it now before we conclude our investigations,” Akah warned the operators.

Other concerns, the NERC boss raised include wrong migration of customers to higher classes of tariff, and complaints of over 200% rise in the estimated bills of some customers to the Commission.

Responding, Jos Disco contested its metering status saying it has done more than the figure reported. Benin Disco said it uses cluster billing to charge people in a place for the energy delivered to the area whether household entities consume that or not.

NERC also chided Ikeja and Kano Discos’s report indicating that none of its 1.057million customers was willing to pay for meters. However, Kano Disco said despite its awareness efforts, the customers are not willing to embrace CAPMI.

Meanwhile,  Abuja and Jos Discos have assured of rolling out meters from May. As Jos Disco said it is doing 180,000 meters, Abuja is planning 100,000 meters.

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