For some of you may like to acquire electricity meters for your houses and shops, it has been revealed that the single phase meters will cost about N25,000 while three phase meters will go for about N50,000.
The positive though, is that consumers who buy the meters
will get refunds in form of monthly reduction in charges to the tune of the
meter cost according to NERC chairman Dr. Sam Amadi.
At a stakeholders’ workshop on metering code 2 in Abuja
yesterday, Dr. Sam Amadi disclosed that the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP)
has given approval to NERC to engage the vendors after conduction of a
procurement exercise.
He said: “Finally, we’ve got an approval from the Bureau of
Public Procurement, this allows us now to certify about 80 firms to become
vendors and installers. So we are issuing out the order and part of it is that
45 days after payment is made, everybody that has made payment is entitled to
get meters installed.
“I think this temporal setback is because our MYTO (Multi
Year Tariff Order) model did not work as planned because there were unexpected
payments, costs that DISCOs (Distribution Companies) had to carry. So we are
using CAPMI as interim measure and CAPMI has gone through the process and is
now ready to be launched.”
“It is regrettable that customers paid for meters and not
supplied within same months even years after. This is a double jeopardy
considering that meters ought to have been supplied to them free once they paid
bills. The commission had to take January 2011 as deadline for a number of
reasons.
“Nevertheless, we are working on measure to ensure that
customers who paid before January 2011 are metered within the shortest possible
time.”
The clamour for the electricity meters as increased over the
years as consumers without meters have always complained about exorbitant bills
while power consumed is minimal.
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PHCN Electricity meters to cost between N25,000 and N50,000 says NERC boss