Price Increase: Plan To Provide 4m Meters Remains Intact – Federal Govt

The federal government has said the plan to provide four million prepaid electricity meters under the National Mass Metering Programme, (NMMP) remains intact despite the recent increase in the unit cost of meters.

It announced this following the widespread outrage that greeted the increase in the cost of both single-phase and three-phase meters as was made public on Friday by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission.

The NERC had raised the price of a single-phase meter from N44,896.17 to N58,661.69 and increased the price of a three-phase meter from N82,855.19 to N109,684.36.

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But following the overwhelming reaction which followed the hike, the regulator in a public notice on Monday night announced that the four million meters to be provided under the NMMP would be given free.

It said, “The NMMP designed to provide all consumers of electricity with meters is a policy intervention of the Federal Government supported by CBN concessionary loans to distribution companies.

“This laudable initiative is still very much on course. A total of over 900,000 units of meters have so far been installed under the take-off phase of the scheme without any payment by benefitting consumers.

“While this doesn’t cover many of the unmetered customers, we are pleased to inform electricity consumers that the next phase under which about four million units of meters would be procured from local meter manufacturers has commenced.”

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