FG Orders DisCos To Resume Free Metre Distribution
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The Federal Government has given instructions to electricity
distribution companies to resume the Metre Assets Providers programme,
recently slowed down by the National Mass Metering Programme.
Although the DisCos’ MAP has been in existence for some years, the
NMMP programme under the office of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was introduced
in 2020 to bridge the wide metering gap in the Nigerian Electricity Supply
Industry, NESI.
While the MAP had barely reached 400, 000 homes in
2020, FG’s NMMP intervention in Phase 0 succeeded in reaching over 800,000
homes.
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Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, Garuba Sanusi,
said last week that Phase 1 of the Federal Government’s NMMP was billed to
begin in August, and as a result, DisCos had been ordered to resume and speed
up on the MAP.
“By the end of August, metres from local
manufacturers will be deployed by the DisCos. As a result, DisCos have been
ordered to re-open the MAP, and customers are advised to take advantage of the
window to purchase theirs if they cannot wait for the free metres,” he
said.
He disclosed that 45 local metre manufacturers were currently
jostling to be signed under FG’s metre providers’ programme.
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