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Again! FG Hikes Electricity Tariff
Barely two months into implementation of the much opposed hike in tariff, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has again approved over 50 per cent hike in electricity tariff
The hike is payable by customers of the eleven (11) Distribution Companies, DisCos across Nigeria.
According to a revised Multi Year Tariff Order (MYTO) signed by the new Chairman of NERC, Engr. Sanusi Garba, on December 30, 2020, and sighted Tuesday, the new tariff increase took effect on January 1, 2021, and supersedes the previous Order NERC/2028/2020.
Based on the new Order NERC/225/2020, the commission disclosed that it considered the 14.9% inflation rate rise in November 2020, foreign exchange of N379.4/$1 as of December 29, 2020, available generation capacity, US inflation rate of 1.22% and the Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) of the power firms to raise the tariff.
The revised Service Based Tariff (SBT) also saw increase in the rates payable by all classes of electricity users unlike the one of November 2020, that exempted low power getters.
This is effective till June 2021 while a Cost Reflective Tariff (CRT) expected to raise the new cost higher will be activated from June to December 2021, the NERC Order disclosed.
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