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Electricity Consumers On Estimated Billing To Pay Less by Omooba77: 7:02am On Jul 01, 2015
Electricity consumers across the country who are on estimated billing are to pay lesser than their counterparts who have been provided with meters, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has said.

The Chairman of NERC, Dr. Sam Amadi, who said this in Abuja at a press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday, said a new regulation was coming to compel electricity distribution companies to provide meters for all their customers within four months or accept a cap on what they could charge as estimated bills.

Amadi said after four months of moratorium, the firms would not be able to charge such consumers beyond what would be prescribed according to the region or zone where the customer was based.

According to him, the ceiling of the tariff, which a customer on estimated billing can pay, is an incentive for the distribution firms to metre call customers, adding that the capped tariff would be significantly lower than what metred customers pay.

The NERC boss said after 16 months, customers of a distribution company who had not been metred would be freed from paying any tariff at all until they were provided with meters.

He said, “In view of the Discos’ negative attitude to metering, an option worth considering to incentivise metering is to place a limit on the ability of a Disco to arbitrarily estimate consumers who are not metered.

“This has the tendency of encouraging the Discos to accelerate the implementation of metering plans that have been talked about but not implemented before privatisation and after taking over the management of the Discos.”

Amadi added, “The commission has chosen to issue an order setting the cap but with an effective implementation date after a moratorium of four months to allow the distribution companies to appropriately adjust their metering programmes.

“All estimates being imposed by the Discos within the moratorium period shall be strictly based on the commission’s billing estimation methodology. As soon as the capping regulation commences, the extant regulation on estimation methodology will be vacated.

“Metering is a critical component of the business of electricity. It serves as the only parameter for quantifying energy delivered and energy utilised by the supplier and consumer respectively.”

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Re: Electricity Consumers On Estimated Billing To Pay Less by jamace(m): 7:04am On Jul 01, 2015
This will be good for Nigerians if the words can be translated to action. Enough of talking the talk.
Re: Electricity Consumers On Estimated Billing To Pay Less by Noah13: 7:08am On Jul 01, 2015
The increased charges for meter owners ought to take effect today right?
Re: Electricity Consumers On Estimated Billing To Pay Less by Nobody: 7:14am On Jul 01, 2015
why will it be based on the region were a customer is based. are we all not one Nigeria?.

this is how it starts, tomorrow you will see another mago mago like the schools cut off mark
Re: Electricity Consumers On Estimated Billing To Pay Less by Omooba77: 7:53am On Jul 01, 2015
aguiyi:
why will it be based on the region were a customer is based. are we all not one Nigeria?.

this is how it starts, tomorrow you will see another mago mago like the schools cut off mark
Does EKDC understand this,even if there is no light for more than 20 days,the bill increases monthly.
Re: Electricity Consumers On Estimated Billing To Pay Less by Omooba77: 7:56am On Jul 01, 2015
How much Iam I going to pay lalasticlala?

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