Electricity: NERC commences net billing scheme, consumers to sell excess solar power to grid

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has announced the commencement of the Net Billing Regulations 2026.

The model allows eligible energy consumers to make renewable vigor for idiosyncratic usage and merchantability excess powerfulness to the nationalist grid.

The committee disclosed this successful a connection posted connected its authoritative X relationship on Wednesday.

According to NERC, “the caller regulations are designed to beforehand the adoption of renewable vigor technologies, amended vigor information and reliability, promote backstage assemblage information successful powerfulness generation, trim greenhouse state emissions, and enactment the integration of renewable vigor systems into organisation networks.”

Under the scheme, eligible customers, known arsenic “Prosumers,” tin make energy from renewable vigor sources, peculiarly star photovoltaic systems, for their ain depletion and export surplus vigor to their organisation companies nether a nett billing arrangement.

To qualify, NERC said participants indispensable beryllium connected to a organisation company’s network, instal renewable vigor systems that conscionable method and regulatory standards, get support from th...