Tag: Chairman of NERC

Resume Free Meter Distribution, NERC Orders DisCos

Ganiyu Amodu

As 45 Firms Jostle For Nigeria’s meter Providers Contracts The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has declared that 45 local metre manufacturers are jostling to be signed under Nigerian Government’s meter providers’ programme. Chairman of NERC, Garuba Sanusi, who disclosed this on the sideline of a power stakeholders’ engagement in Lagos, ordered electricity distribution companies to resume the Meter Assets Providers (MAP) programme, recently slowed down by the National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP). Although the DisCos’ MAP has been in existence for some years, the NMMP programme under the office…

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Nigerians To Pay More For Electricity As Regulator Mulls New tariff July 1

Ayobami Adedinni

The new electricity tariff review will be second in 2022. Here is the reason NERC gave for the Biannual Review + Full statement   The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) will from July 1, 2022 review electricity tariffs, about six months after carrying out a similar exercise, Platforms Africa reports. In a memo marked: “Notice Of Compliance in Respect of the Biannual Review of the Revenue Requirements of Licensees,” the power sector regulator said that the adjustment will cover among others, changes in relevant macroeconomic indices. READ ALSO: Power generation…

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