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The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has disclosed that the CBN has so far released N33.2 billion to electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) in the country.
The commission noted that the figure is out of the N59.2 billion earmarked for the National Mass Metering Project (NMMP) by the federal government,
The NERC chairman, Sanusi Garba, disclosed this while speaking during an interactive session between the Senate Committee on Power, NERC officials, and representatives of the DisCos, in Abuja.
Garba explained further that the project which is targeted at one million unmetered houses across the country and billed for execution between October 2020 and April 2021 has only attained 13 per cent implementation as at March 19, 2021.
According to him, “While N403,000 out of the targeted one million meters have been delivered to the various DISCOs, only 127,000 have been installed, representing 13 percent performance.
“Target performance duration for the project which is phase one, entailing metering of one million houses across the country in reducing the metering deficit of 6.5 million, is six months, that is from October 2020 to April 2021
“Though out of the N59.2 billion earmarked for the project, N33.4 billion has been released to the various DISCOs by the Central Bank of Nigeria but disbursement of the releases were very slow which resulted in many of them accessing the fund in February 2021.
“This largely contributed to the poor performance percentage by the DisCos for now, on the National Mass Metering Project.
“But with the chunk of the funds available to the DisCos now, the implementation performance index will rise astronomically within the next few weeks.”
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