The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said the country’s metering gap remains significant despite the installation of 3.03 million meters since the privatisation of the sector in 2013.
According to the commission, the metering rate currently hovers around 50 per cent, leaving half of the electricity customers on estimated billing.
The Commissioner in charge of planning research and strategy, Dr Yusuf Ali, at the 2024 edition of PwC’s Annual Power and Utilities Roundtable disclosed that the reliance on estimated billing and the metering gap poses a major challenge to the sector’s liquidity and overall efficiency.
Ali, during his presentation titled: ‘Recent Policy Reforms and NERC Orders: Exploring Their Potential to Renew Optimism in the Electric Power Sector’, mentioned that the metering challenge is worsened by the poor level of customer enumeration across DisCos.
He…
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