Says NERC’s interim rules violate power sector reform lawThe Transmission Company of Nigeria Wednesday stated that by allocating electricity consumers within the 132kv lines to the distribution companies , the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has violated the Electric Power Sector Reform Act of 2005.
Speaking yesterday at a public hearing on its position on the Transmission Electric Market Order, the Managing Director of TCN, Mr. Usman Mohammed, explained that NERC’s allocation of electricity customers within the 132kV lines under the Eligible Consumers’ regulation was in violation of the EPSRA.
“Discos billing, charging and collecting tariff from 330kV/132kV customers is a violation of the tariff setting principles of the EPSRA. Currently the 330kV/132kV customers of the Discos are being charged industrial tariffs of the Discos. Mohammed further explained that: “There is nothing a Disco can do to improve the efficiency of a customer connected to a 132kV or 330kV network. If a Disco cannot affect the efficiency of a customer as stated in 76 because is not connected, then the Disco should not charge the customer.
According to him, allowing the Discos to charge customers connected to 132kV and 330kV was a gross violation of EPSRA tariff setting principles, which the NERC is authorised to protect.
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