The new owners of power distribution firms is to provide all electricity consumers with meters as soon as they take over the successor companies of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, the Federal Government has directed.
The Chairman, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, Dr. Sam Amadi, stated this, while speaking at a two-day workshop organised by the NERC for the successor companies and other stakeholders in Abuja, adding that arbitrary billing by power firms would not be tolerated.
He said, "The new PHCN successor companies should see metering of all their customers immediately they take over ownership of the PHCN companies as their major priority to avoid bills estimation."
The NERC boss explained that in the new power reform agenda, both the accounts of the distribution companies and their customers should be balanced and maintained.
He noted that one of the concerns of the commission was to ensure that the rights of the discos and their customers were not tampered with, stressing that one of the rights was to meter electricity consumers.
According to Amadi, metering all electricity consumers would assist the customers to effectively monitor their energy usage as well as enable the Discos determine their revenue.
The NERC chairman said the commission would need to reach an agreement with the Discos on how long it would take the power firms to ensure that all their customers were metered.
The new owners of the power firms are expected to take over their respective companies on November 1, 2013.
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