The management of Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has called on the Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) and the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) to end the blame game, which according to him, has impacted the power sector negatively.
The Chairman of NERC, Professor James Momoh, who gave the advice during a facility tour of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), also identified technical and commercial as another problems confronting the sector.
Momoh, however, advised the DisCos to deploy modern technologies and equipment that would guarantee network stability in order to improve on quality of electricity supply to their consumers
He also urged the AEDC’s management to concentrate more on deployment of emerging technology in order to ensure customer satisfaction.
“The growing sector called NESI, in Nigeria is becoming a new challenge. And unless we need to think out of the box, we cannot handle it. And I believe what I have heard this afternoon, is daily efforts by AEDC to address the new challenge, whether it is in a short term, whether it is in medium term or in a long term, using out of the box critical thinking.
“The challenge of the industry if you ask is both the technical and commercial. If you get the technical right, you concentrate on the commercial, if you get commercial right, you get technical right. So, when you get all of them right, you an efficient reliable company.
“But I am using this thing to push power through the interface with the TCN and DISCOs. Because for years, I have seen as one of your staff here, there was this blame game. This blame game of it is my fault, it is your fault, switch your feeder, I switch my feeder, take your transformers, I will take care of my transformer; your relay is not working.This is indirect infighting in the sector. And everybody was casting blames’’, Momoh said.
Earlier, the Managing Director of AEDC, Engr. Ernest Mupwaya, said ATC/C losses, reconfiguration of the network and revenue collections, especially from the unmetered customers were parts of the problems confronting his company.
Mupwaya, however, commended the Federal Government’s efforts over the ongoing National Mass Metering Programme, which according to him, will stabilize in the system.
