The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has said the power distribution companies (DisCos) will be liable to the capacity charge for failure to take their entire load allocation caused by constraints in their networks.
NERC disclosed this on Thursday in which it announced to the DisCos the review of the extraordinary tariff review application filed by them.
Last week, the DisCos announced what they called “new service reflective tariff”, which took effect from September 1, 2020, with the tariffs being charged residential consumers receiving a minimum of 12 hours of power supply rising by over 70 per cent.
Last week, the DisCos announced what they called “new service reflective tariff”, which took effect from September 1, 2020, with the tariffs being charged residential consumers receiving a minimum of 12 hours of power supply rising by over 70 per cent.
It was reported on Monday that the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said the Discos failed to distribute 8,733.39MW in the week ended August 30.
The TCN, which manages the national grid, is still fully owned and operated by the government