Guidelines and Procedures for Distribution Licensees Customer Enumeration and NERC Licence and Operating Fees Regulation
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Regulations require electricity distribution companies to enumerate all customers and pay licensing fees to NERC. They target distribution companies, NERC departments, and electricity consumers. This ensures accurate billing and sustains regulatory operations.
Guidelines and Procedures for Distribution Licensees Customer Enumeration and NERC Licence and Operating Fees Regulation
What Is This Policy?
Combined guidelines that require electricity distribution companies to conduct comprehensive enumeration of all customers on their networks and regulations that establish the fees payable by licensees to NERC for the issuance and maintenance of electricity licenses.
Who Does It Target?
Electricity distribution companies NERC licensing and finance departments Electricity consumers to be enumerated Generation and transmission licensees paying operating fees
What Does It Aim to Achieve?
Ensure accurate customer databases for billing and service delivery through mandatory enumeration, and sustain NERC's regulatory operations through transparent license and operating fee collection.
Key Features
Customer Enumeration: Mandatory door-to-door survey and registration of all electricity customers Data Requirements: Capture of customer identity, location, connection type, and load information Database Management: Standards for maintaining and updating customer records License Fees: One-time fees for the issuance of electricity licenses by category Operating Levy: Annual operating fees payable by licensees to fund NERC's regulatory activities
Current Status
Rollout Stage: Active Coverage: All distribution licensees (enumeration) and all electricity licensees (fees) Lead Agency: NERC Compliance: DisCos must demonstrate enumeration progress; fees are mandatory for license maintenance
How to Access
DisCos conduct enumeration; licensees pay fees to NERC. Distribution companies enumerate customers in their franchise areas Licensees pay prescribed fees to NERC as scheduled
Official Resources
Website: nerc.gov.ng Contact: NERC, Abuja
Legal Framework
Issued under the regulatory powers of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) pursuant to the Electric Power Sector Reform Act (EPSRA) 2005 and the Electricity Act 2023. Customer enumeration requirements align with NERC Distribution Licence conditions and the Multi-Year Tariff Order (MYTO). Licensing fees operate under NERC's cost-recovery mandate and the National Electricity Regulatory Commission Act.