DISCOs Company Start New Tariff Implementation In November

 

Electricity customers begin charge of revised tariffs
• Govt, Labour strike deal

Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) on Sunday started implementation of revised strength price lists.

The revised tariffs are primarily based on the choice of the technical committee installation to check the September 1 price-reflective tariffs, whose implementation became temporarily halted after organised Labour threatened nationwide strike.

The Committee is headed by Minister of State for Labour and Employment Festus Keyamo. Labour is represented at the panel through Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Deputy President Joe Ajaero.

The debatable September 1 price lists have now been slashed with reductions granted.

Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) Chairman Prof. James Momoh, showed that the Commission had permitted a brand new Multi-Year Tariff Order (MYTO) overview for the eleven DisCos.

The new regime of tariffs grants discounts as follows: Band category C 31 in line with cent, Band B 10.Five in line with cent and Band A 10 per cent.

According to him, the Review Committee met until 3.00am on Saturday, wherein it become agreed that the agreed phrases must take effect from the previous day.

The NERC boss said Bands E and D are frozen.

Momoh stated: “We signed off on it the day gone by (Saturday). It has been executed the way the people at the government facet and the labour unions facet agreed.

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“We have just written it in a totally clean time period so that the DisCos will understand their obligations, and clients will advantage get entry to to it and recognize that that is the agreed role. They ought to recognize that that is the position signed-off the day prior to this (Saturday) to take impact from November 1.

Giving a breakdown of ways consumers pays, the Ikeja Electricity stated closing night time: “With the revised tariff regime, Non-MD clients in Band A, with at the very least 20 hours each day will now pay N51.22/Kwh. Band B customers with minimal of 16 hours every day will be charged N46.93/Kwh; at the same time as Band C customers with not less than 12 hours day by day can be charged N37.95/Kwh.

“Customers in Bands D and E, with minimal of eight hours and 4 hours in step with day, respectively, aren't impacted via the tariff revision. Their SRT price lists have been frozen and consequently, they'll stay charged the vintage tariff prior to the creation of the SRT.

“Prepaid Meter clients in Bands A – C, who vend from November 1, 2020 might be charged the brand new tariff even as equal could be carried out for Postpaid customers in those bands, in the course of the November billing cycle.”

Other Discos the day past introduced the graduation of the agreed new tariffs.

The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) stated with effect from 1st November 2020, AEDC had effected a revised Service Reflective Tariff as accredited by way of the regulatory corporation.

“Customers on the pre-paid platform might be the primary to enjoy the revised tariff when they vend from Sunday, 1st November 2020, at the same time as the revised tariff will replicate within the payments for customers on the postpaid platform once they receive their energy invoice.

“The tariff is split into five Bands and primarily based on hours of supply to the customers. While customers on Bands D & E have their tariff frozen, those on Bands A, B & C will see some degree of discount of their tariff as they vend.

“AEDC assures her customers that it's going to, in keeping with the spirit and letter of the provider reflective tariff, make certain that every one clients get hold of satisfactory carrier. We also are devoted to the improvement of carrier to customers in all our franchise area.

‘We, but, enchantment to clients to delight see this tariff regime as an opportunity for them to sign up for fingers with AEDC to speed up the procedure of improving the high-quality of carrier inside the Nigerian energy quarter.”

The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC), the Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO), the Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JEDC), the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC) – all stated they had commence implementation of the revised price lists.

But the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC), stated it changed into but to revert to the new charge. Its spokesman Busolami Tunwase stated clients can be notified “when we need to commence”.

General Manager, Corporate Communications, Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC), Godwin Idemudia, said: “When we had been advised to revert to the preceding tariff, we complied. So if there is a new directive to put in force another tariff fee, we have no desire than to comply.”

NLC confirmed that the revised prices were agreed upon . NLC Deputy President Ajaero who is additionally General Secretary, National Union of Electricity Employees, however warned that must power Distribution Companies refuse to reflect what became agreed at the closing meeting between labour and government, “it approach that negotiations have collapsed”.

He said: “If they are saying they're going to put in force what we agreed it isn't always a story but if they may be say they may be going to do some other element, by the time they do it, you must expect a response from labour. That one doesn’t require any session here and there. They will get it.

“Let us watch them to now pass contrary to the intervening time file however that one continues to be interim because we need to get to the root of all this. Should they move and refuse to reflect what we've got agreed so. We will cross lower back to the placement pre-discussion with government.”