Meters: Electricity Consumers to Pay through Service Charge - THISDAYLIVE

Contrary to the position of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission that electricity consumers in the country would be provided meters free-of-charge by their distribution companies , power consumers would actually have to pay for such through a new window termed ‘metering service charge,’ THISDAY yesterday learnt.

However, it is not clear if the new meter service charges in the MAPs scheme are different from the fixed charge the NERC in 2015 abolished and striped Discos from collecting from consumers. Based on MAPs regulation, all Discos are expected to engage the services of MAPs towards meeting their metering targets.

It said that when this is the case, the Discos shall have rights to use data derived from customer meters for monitoring, billing planning and any other related activities, as well as to query data from the meters for audit purposes. According to it, where a customer fails to pay for metering service charge in any given month or months, the cumulative metering service charge shall be deducted upon the subsequent payment.

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