The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Monday, September 23, revealed that the 11 electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) of the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) collected N1.07trillion in 2023.
The energy distributors, said NERC, failed to collect N385.83 billion out of the total N1.46 trillion electricity bills for the year.
This culminated in 73.64% collection efficiency in the year under review, according to the NERC document titled: “2023 Annual Report and Account.”
NERC said: “The total billings to electricity consumers by the DisCos was ₦1,463.24 billion of which only ₦1,077.51 billion was collected, leaving a total outstanding of ₦385.73 billion and corresponding to a collection efficiency of 73.64%.”
On Market Remittances by DisCos, the report said in 2023, a total invoice of ₦858.033billion was issued to all the DisCos for energy received from NBET and for service charges by the MO, out of which a sum of ₦706.73 billion was settled by DisCos, leaving a total deficit of ₦151.30 billion in the market.
NERC said this payment translates to an overall remittance performance of 82.37%.
The report revealed that Eko and Yola DisCos had high remittance performances of 105.76% and 105.14% respectively to NBET in 2023 while Kaduna achieved the lowest remittance performance to NBET (17.59%).
NERC also said the highest remittance performances to the MO were recorded by Yola, Eko and Ikeja at 90.91%, 90.85% and 90.38% respectively while Kaduna recorded the lowest MO remittance performance of 10.75% in 2023.
On Market Remittances by Special and Bilateral Customers, NERC said in 2023, the NESI continued to provide electricity to three international bilateral customers – i) Societe Beninoise d’Energie Electrique; ii) Compagnie Energie Electrique du Togo; iii) Societe Nigerienne d’electricite.
It noted: “Cumulatively, these 3 customers received an invoice of $53.55 million from MO and made a payment of $50.36 million.
“This corresponds to a remittance performance of 94.04%. There were nineteen (19) active domestic bilateral customers in 2023.
“Cumulatively, these customers received a total invoice of ₦10,320.84 million from MO and made a payment of ₦8,766.15million corresponding to a remittance performance of 84.94%.”