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Prepaid electricity consumption is a sensible option for many people, under a number of different circumstances: for the home or business owner, for the tenant, for the owner of an Airbnb property, for example. But how do you know what to look for when you first set out to share in the benefits offered by prepaid electricity consumption?
Your metering company should be rock-solid
A prepaid electricity sub-meter is a device that helps users control and regulate the usage of electricity. It works much like a prepaid cellphone, whereby you pay upfront before you use it, therefore eliminating large unexpected monthly bills. And as with your cellphone service, you want to know that you are signing up with a good provider.
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The Head of Corporate Communications, JEDC, Dr Adakole Elijah, told the
News Agency of Nigeria that efforts were ongoing to meter more households, in line with the directive of the Federal Government, while expressing the JEDC’s desire to end estimated billing of customers.
He stated that JEDC’s effort at metering customers in Gombe State was strengthened by the National Mass Metering Programme, which had brought great relief for both staff and customers of the company.
Elijah noted that, in February, a total of 1,538 households were metered under the Mass Metering Scheme. He said though the company had 89,077 customers in the state, it was making strenuous efforts to meter all those yet to be reached.
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Over seven million power users have not been metered while three million meters installed in the residents of power users are obsolete, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has said.
In its latest Order No. NERC/246/2021 on structured replacement of faulty and obsolete end-use customer meters, obtained in Abuja on Friday, the commission said the three million obsolete meters were due for replacement.
It stated that the large number of unmetered customers in the Nigeria Electricity Supply Industry was contributory to the financial challenges bedeviling the sector.
The NERC said, “The commission notes that over seven million customers are currently unmetered as indicated by customer enumeration data.