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609,585 Customers Get Meters As 7.3m Remain unmetered – FG

POSTED ON June 2, 2024 •   Business      BY Benedicta Bassey
A Prepaid meter/ Photo credit: Guardian

 Federal Government has shown that 609,585 electricity consumers were metered in 2023, while the number of unmetered registered power users nationwide stood at 7,319,846.

A data analysis obtained from the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission indicated that out of the 13,162,572 registered consumers who get supply from the national grid, 5,842,726 have been metered.

This puts Nigeria’s overall metering rate of electricity customers at 44.39 per cent, while 55.61 per cent of others get their bills through estimation from the 11 power distribution companies nationwide.

An analysis of data from NERC showed that in the first quarter of 2023, 171,107 power users got meters, while 178,864, 148,389, and 111,225 electricity consumers were metered in the second, third, and fourth quarters.

Power users receiving estimated bills from Discos have repeatedly kicked against this, as many have demanded meters.

To address the gap in metering, the Bureau of Public Enterprises announced on Thursday that the Federal Government had secured a $500m World Bank loan to procure meters.

“In a strategic move to address the identified gaps in the electricity distribution companies, the Federal Government of Nigeria has secured a $500m loan from the World Bank,” BPE stated in a statement issued in Abuja by the Head of Public Communication, Amina Othman.

It added, “Approved on February 4, 2021, by the World Bank board of directors, this funding supports the Nigerian Distribution Sector Recovery Programme aimed at improving the financial and technical performance of the Discos.

“The DISREP is designed to enhance the financial and technical operations of the Discos through capital investment and the financing of key components of their Performance Improvement Plans, which have been approved by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission.”

The bureau stated that key areas of improvement included bulk procurement of customer/retail meters and meter data management systems, implementation of a Data Aggregation Platform, and strengthening governance and transparency within the Discos.

“46,089 meters have been procured and deployed to military formations nationwide to reduce MDA (Ministries, Departments, and Agencies) debts and improve sector liquidity,” the minister stated during a ministerial briefing in Abuja.

The commission said it expected Discos to utilise any of the five-meter financing frameworks provided in the 2021 Meter Asset Provider and National Mass Metering Regulations (NERC–R– 113–2021) to close their respective metering gaps.”

 

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