The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission

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 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 …