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Electricity Supply Will Be Improving Soon – NERC

June 15, 2022 6:53 pm

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) chairman, Mr Sanusi Garba has reiterated that Nigerians will witness improved power supply from July 1 following combined renewed efforts by industry stakeholders.

Garba gave the assurance at an interactive session with newsmen after the Second Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) meeting on Wednesday in Lagos.

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The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the meeting was attended by top officials of NERC, Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Generation Companies as well electricity Distribution Companies.

He said NERC had facilitated a contractual agreement between the Gencos, …

NERC Confirms Removal Of Electricity Subsidy

March 18, 2022 5:50 am

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Friday has confirmed the removal of electricity subsidies by the Federal Government indicating that the citizens would now bear the full cost going forward.

While addressing a news conference in Abuja on Friday morning, the Chairman of the Commission, Mr Sanusi Garba, revealed that the review was conducted in line with multi-year tariff order that mandates that electricity tariff be reviewed every six months.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the NERC’s confirmation is coming at a time the nation continues to confront an energy crisis amid petrol queues, rising diesel costs …

NERC Suspends Electricity Tariff Hike

September 30, 2020 8:16 am

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has ordered the 11 Electricity Distribution Companies (DISCOs) to suspend the Sept. 1 tariff increase for 14 days.

The suspension is in line with the agreement reached with the organised Labour on the suspension of strike over the hike in electricity tariff and increase in pump price of petrol.

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The commission’s suspension order of the Multi-Year Tariff Order (MYTO) 2020 signed by Prof James Momoh, NERC’s Chairman was released on its website on Wednesday.

The Federal Government agreed that the recent review in electricity tariffs …

NERC: Discos To Pay For Rejecting Electricity

September 11, 2020 11:04 am

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has said the power distribution companies will be liable to capacity charge for failure to take their entire load allocation caused by constraints in their networks.

NERC disclosed this in a document seen by our correspondent on Thursday in which it announced to the Discos the review of the extraordinary tariff review application filed by them.

Last week, the Discos announced what they called “new service reflective tariff”, which took effect from September 1, 2020, with the tariffs being charged residential consumers receiving a minimum of 12 hours of power supply rising by over …

Poor Power Supply: Gbajabiamila Meets With Minister

April 2, 2020 1:36 pm

The Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, on Wednesday, met with the Minister of Power, Mr. Sale Mamman and the management of the National Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, over a viral video by Nollywood actress, Ada Ameh.

Ameh had in the viral video protested the poor electricity supply to Nigerians during the ongoing lockdown in major parts of the country to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

With the speaker at the meeting was the Minority Leader, Rep. Ndudi Elumelu; and Deputy Minority Whip, Rep. Adesegun Adekoya.

While NERC was represented by its Commissioner on Compliance, Safe

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NERC: Why Some Nigerians Don’t Pay Electricity Bills

December 24, 2019 7:03 am

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has given reasons why some Nigerians don’t pay the 11 electricity distribution companies (Discos) for power supplied to them.

The NERC, in its latest quarterly review of the sector’s activities for the second quarter of 2019, stated that the Discos have largely failed to provide meters to their customers which would have enabled them to account for their electricity consumption patterns.

“The metering gap for end-use customers is still a key challenge in the industry. The records of the commission indicate that, of the 8,881,443 registered electricity customers, only 3,811,729 (42.92 per cent) …