Nigeria: Electricity Distribution - Why NERC Tweaked Its 18-Month Metering Plan

10 February 2013

The reasons why the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) decided to tweak its initial plan to ensure that successor distribution companies of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) comprehensively provide electricity metering facilities to eligible consumers across the country within 18 months have emerged.

THISDAY gathered from a reliable source in the presidency that the somewhat unexpected change of strategy by the commission was largely due to the sustained "unholy" practices it discovered among some of the 11 PHCN distribution companies and attempts by the Ministry of Power to unduly interfere in the metering plan.

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