The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), says it has sanctioned eleven Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) for non compliance with capping of estimated bills for unmetered customers.
The commission’s management said this in a statement in Abuja on Friday.
The commission said that a review of the DisCos billing of unmetered customers for 2023 had revealed the non-compliance with the monthly energy caps issued by the commission.
”The public may recall that in 2020, the commission issued the Order on Capping of Estimated Bills (Order No: NERC/197/2020) and subsequently issued monthly energy caps,”it said.
According to NERC, the capping is aimed at aligning the estimated bills for unmetered customers with the measured consumption of metered customers on the same supply feeder.
The commission said that in response to the non-compliance, it was safeguarding unmetered customers from arbitrary billing by DisCos