The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), produced a tariff for Nigeria, and the Federal Government, FGN, approved
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission , produced a tariff for Nigeria, and the Federal Government, FGN, approved it for implementation, begun on April 4, 2024 when across the country, NERC approved the tariff only for Band A customersThe Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission , produced a tariff for Nigeria, and the Federal Government, FGN, approved it for implementation, begun on April 4, 2024 when across the country, NERC approved the tariff only for Band A customers, Those...
Low quantum of monthly earnings is a symptom of a crippling disease that no electric utility has ever survived. The solution has always been best achieved everywhere, by financial transfusion, subsidy, followed by aggressive Commercial Engineering. Notably, Dunlop and Michelin, both Motor tyre manufacturers, left Nigeria. Industries that wanted to remain in the country built their individual power plants, creating parallel utilities from which NESI has never recovered because of the deleterious effects it had on its earnings.
The networks are and were medieval in design and had gone decrepit with age and lack of maintenance even in the 1980s. Since then they have been incompetently rehashed across Nigeria. By this 2020s, they are and should be expected to be totally incapable of supporting industrial health and development, forty years or more after industries quit them.
In economies especially developing ones such as Nigeria, the only way to bring electric rates down for residential use is to ensure higher industrial productivity and electricity consumption. As it is now in Nigeria, to solve the problem, government should first re-engineer and rebuild the distribution networks. After that all available industries should be electrically linked with the public networks to form an unbroken chain. That is the solution to the problematic nightmare of NESI.
Nigeria should prepare for a massive retraining of engineers in every area. Every engineer must learn planning economics. NAPTIN and technological universities should be equipped with the right manpower to teach the various specialties. Why should Kaduna pay the same electric rate as Zaria? Has Nigeria appetite for egalitarian tariffs? Has NERC used true unit cost per kilowatt for every town and location? These are fair questions. Engineering intends thorough application because human life depends upon it.Before flagging, please keep in mind that Disqus does not moderate communities. Your username will be shown to the moderator, so you should only flag this comment for one of the reasons listed above.
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