MANY electricity consumers in Nigeria have confirmed improvement in power supply in the past one month.

The improvement levels have, however, varied, in line with the government’s introduction of different tariffs for consumers.

The Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) had in 2020 introduced a ‘service reflect tariff’, which classified consumers into bands A, B, C, D and E. The initiative seeks to address load rejection from distribution companies (DisCos), which could lead to grid collapse if left unaddressed.

The idea, in other words, seeks to address power allotment to the respective DisCos according to their load capacity.

It also seeks to track their payment returns.

According to the service reflective tariff groupings, band A enjoys an average of 20 hours per day; band B, 16 hours; and band C, 12 hours, while bands D and E receive a minimum of only eight and four hours daily.

One electricity consumer confirmed an improvement in supply.

“Our estate is in band A, and we are enjoying a minimum of 20 hours of power supply per day. This is quite commendable, and I hope they sustain it. I sell food in the estate, and meat in the refrigerator is preserved because of the constant power,” a restaurant operator in Kubwa, a satellite town in Abuja, Oluchukwu Mgbemena, told The ICIR.

The Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu, said he has been receiving feedback from some distribution companies on the improved power supply.

In a recent Tweet, Aliyu referred to a post by the Yola Electricity Distribution Company hailing its ability to sustain power supply despite the heavy downpour in the state.

The ICIR survey showed that the Federal government’s work on grid expansion and current dam water level improvement were major factors contributing to power supply stability to homes.

Also identified as having a huge impact on the recorded improvement are transmission expansion and rehabilitation of sub-stations.

“Nobody can tell us that they have generated power that we have not evacuated. The stability we are currently enjoying in the sector is as a result of so many things. We are doing aggressive grid expansion. And now, we have water in the dams,” the managing director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, Sule Ahmed Abdulaziz, told The ICIR.

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We are waiting for dry season when kanji dam has little water then we will know if stable power supply will continue.