NERC summons Abuja Disco for ‘over billing’ electricity customers

NERC summons Abuja Disco for ‘over billing’ electricity customers

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has issued the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) notice of enforcement  over what it described as ‘manifest and flagrant breaches’ of approved methodology for estimated billing of electricity consumers. 

In a statement issued by NERC Public Affairs Head, Dr Usman Arabi, it directed (AEDC) to explain within seven days why “enforcement action should not be taken against you and sanctions meted accordingly.

“For non-compliance with the terms and conditions of the license granted you, the Methodology for Estimated Billing 2012 and directives to submit a comprehensive data used for the billing of unmetered customers” for the period under review. 

NERC said the notice is a follow up action to previous investigations and forensic observations of electricity Distribution Companies’ (Discos) operations through which  unusual increases in estimated billings of consumers were observed within the last quarter of 2014 by the commission.

Abuja Disco and some others were subsequently invited for explanation for the unusual increase in estimated billings.