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- Aba Power, Nigeria’s newest DisCo, has begun a monolithic rollout of escaped prepaid meters to its customers
- The institution disclosed that it plans to instal astir 20,000 prepaid meters escaped for its customers nether the Aba-Owerri Expressway 33kV feeder
- The DisCo covers 31 feeders, 4 of which were metered successful an earlier exercise, which ended 1 period ago.
Legit.ng’s Pascal Oparada has reported connected tech, energy, stocks, concern and the economy for implicit a decade.
Aba Power has begun the rollout of the 2nd signifier of its prepaid metre installation scheme.
The powerfulness inferior institution resumed operations with 20,000 astute meters provided by Eves Metering of China, which volition beryllium afloat installed wrong 1 period astatine a outgo of astir N3.5 billion.
Source: UGC
Aba Power plans 20,000 escaped prepaid metre rollout
However, the steadfast said it is not providing metres simultaneously to each its sum areas.
According to Aba Power’s Brand and Communication Senior Manager, Edise Ekong, the rollout is going to beryllium feeder by feeder.
Ekong stated that the institution is presently providing escaped astute meters to lone customers nether the Aba-Owerri Expressway 33kV feeder.
He stated that the feeder covers customers successful Umuode, Osisioma Local Government Area, the Old Aba-Owerri Highway, Tonimas Junction, and the Powerline country of Aba.
Aba DisCo plans to supply 100,000 prepaid meters
The DisCo has 31 feeders, 4 of which were metered successful an earlier exercise, which ended 1 period ago.
Engineer Blessing Ogbe, the company’s main operating officer, disclosed that the DisCo plans to metre astir 100,000 customers successful 2025, stating that it is the crushed the steadfast hired the services of the Chinese steadfast and those of Kayz Consortium.
He said Kayz Consortium is present moving its accumulation tract to Aba Power’s premises successful the Osisioma Industrial Layout successful Abia to boost speed.
According to him, determination is different company, Chint Metering Company of China, that volition statesman different signifier of the metering project.
Ogbe advised customers to get experienced technicians to guarantee that each lawsuit has a abstracted ligament successful a artifact of flats, arsenic the institution can nary longer let 2 oregon much customers to usage 1 metre.
Residents laud Aba Power’s assertive metering
He disclosed that the determination was to let for transparency, businesslike energy use, struggle resolution, and trim cheating by fraudulent and hard vigor users who devour excessive vigor and garbage to pay.
The Sun reports that Alphonsus Udeigbo, the president wide of the Aba Landlords Development and Protection Association (ALPADA), expressed optimism and welcomed the Aba Power’s assertive metering campaign, promising that the relation volition cooperate successful the rollout exercise.
FG orders the downgrade of immoderate Band A feeders
The improvement comes arsenic the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) asked energy firms to downgrade 18 energy feeders successful the Band A feeders to little bands implicit their inability to proviso a minimum of 20 hours of powerfulness to the affected customers.
The committee besides ordered the DisCos to compensate Band A customers successful 213 feeders.
The breakdown of the affected DisCos
The bid was contained successful the May 2025 Supplementary Order to the Multi-Year Tariff Order (MYTO).
About 8 energy organisation firms were cited successful the caller directive, affecting mostly Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKDC) and Ikeja Electric.
An investigation shows that EKDC has the largest fig of feeders to beryllium compensated, with 84 feeders.
Eko and Ikeja DisCos person the highest feeders
Daily Trust reports that portion the main crushed was the DisCos’ inability to conscionable the 20-hour powerfulness proviso demand, 37 feeders were compensated for load shedding caused by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).
Ikeja Electric came adjacent with 50 feeders to beryllium compensated, arsenic 3 were downgraded to little bands.
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However, the institution has not received support to upgrade 8 feeders to higher bands.
NERC issues caller directive connected energy measure collection
Legit.ng earlier reported that the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has issued caller guidelines, mandating energy organisation companies (DisCos) to utilise a digital, transparent, and accountable model for energy gross collection.
The caller model was released connected Wednesday, May 28, 2025, and was signed by the NERC chairman, Sanusi Garba.
The caller directive takes effect instantly and is based connected the commission’s powers arsenic enshrined successful Section 226 of the Electricity Act 2023.
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