AZeD1:

I'm not a novice in the power sector and I can tell you that if those guys had done due diligence, they would have known about most of the issues.

2) Metering in Nigeria doesn't favour the power companies. Every time a pipeline is vandalised, the power companies are supposed to lose money, but my bill stays the same or sometimes increases because I am given an estimated bill.

Look. Estimated bills are not sustainable, nor do even 40% of customers pay. The arbitrary charges work against the Discos since hardly anyone pays.

In as much as some are over billed, a great many more are under billed. Most businesses and households are not paying what they should since the marketers tend to under bill just to elicit customer response. When service is dropped, or when a house hold acquires new appliances, the energy company remains unaware and the bills remain the same.

I've seen a house with 4 water heaters and 5 2hp ACs paying about 5k a month.

Some fuel stations are billed as R2s.

If none of the consumers are accurately billed, with a great deal underbilled and a substantial number not paying, while a lot contest their bills, how does that favor the disco?

Do Discos even have enough resources distribute all bills?

Metering is the solution. Especially smart meters.

Take time out and discuss with any disco rep their mentality.

Fellow citizens, what we are currently witnessing in the power sector is just one of the many increases that will come in a rapid cycle of repeated reviews simply because only the few are bearing the burden of the multitudes- It is only in the southern part of the country that the Discos generate the bulk of their revenue(I stand to be corrected) they make next to nothing in the north(Except from some industrial and highbrow areas).It is so bad that even government agencies(Ministries, and Agencies in Abuja like the Finance defence, et al) owed bills up to 90 billion (It took the intervention of the Power Minister to bring the erring agencies to acknowledge and agree a payment plan- NEPA officials dare not enter so many in the North (except they have written their wills and said their last prayers)It is that bad. Hence my submission is that this will not be the last of the increments that we are going to hear and the ones that will bear the brunt are down south.[size=10pt][/size]