The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has suspended its Eligible Customer policy. The policy allows the Generation Companies (GenCos) to sell power directly to consumers without going through the Distribution Companies (DisCos). The Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission...
Doctors under the aegis of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) have agreed to embark on an indefinite strike from Monday, August 2, 2021. The doctors reached the decision after their National Executive Council (NEC)...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has announced 99 metering service providers for the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI). In a notice on its website, the Commission explained that some of the licenses of the providers...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has approved a five-year Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) and Capital Expenditure (Capex) benchmark for power distribution companies (Discos), expected to run from July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2026. The...
The Minister of Power Sale Mamman has dismissed reports of a major hike in electricity tariff. In a statement in Abuja, the Minister said there is no plan to significantly raise tariff but Nigerians should...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has declared that power distribution companies that reject electricity load due to constraints in their networks will now have to pay for the capacity charge of the rejected energy. NERC in...
NERC has reported that 62.63% of electric customers in Nigeria were under the estimated billing package as at Q3 2020. It said in a recent report that metering for customers has been a challenge so far,...
A total of 525,120 number of meters was installed by the electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) between 2019 and November 2020, new data from the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) states. DisCos for the period under...
The Federal Government has directed the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission to immediately suspend the recently adjusted electricity tariff. In the statement on Thursday, Minister of Power, Sale Mamman said there is a committee working on the...
The management of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) says there is no 50 per cent increase in electricity tariff. This was made known by NERC’s Head of Public Affairs, Mr Micheal Faloseyi, in a statement...