Electricity Act: EERC issues 20-year power distribution licence

In enactment with the Electricity Act 2023 and the Enugu State Electricity Law 2023, Enugu State Electricity Regulatory Commission, EERC, connected Friday, issued a 20-year organisation licence to MainPower Electricity Distribution Limited, MPEDL.

With the licence, MainPower volition beryllium liable for distributing energy to customers crossed Enugu State.

Speaking during the issuance of the licence successful Enugu, Chairman of EERC, Mr Chijioke Okonkwo said MPEDL met the commission’s requirements to go the archetypal organisation institution to person the licence.

According to him, the improvement marked different milestone arsenic the committee continued to workout regulatory oversight implicit the energy assemblage successful the state.

Okonkwo described the lawsuit arsenic historic, noting that MainPower, a subsidiary of the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC), was specifically established to instrumentality implicit the assets, liabilities, unit and operations of EEDC successful Enugu State.

He explained that the institution would run nether the sub-national energy marketplace model provided for by the Electricity Act 2023 and the Enugu State Electricity Law 2023.

“MainPower is officially the archetypal subgroup to beryllium issued its operating licence to supply energy services implicit the adjacent 20 years successful Enugu State,” helium said.

Okonkwo attributed the accomplishment to the formulation of the Enugu State Electricity Policy and the sub...