The decision affects Togo terribly. Like Ghana, Nigeria has just taken new resolutions by reducing the supply of electricity to foreign customers to 6% in order to increase national supply. Benin, Togo and Niger, which have unpaid bills amounting to $12.02 million, are severely affected.
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) in an order entitled “Interim order on transmission system dispatch operations, cross-border supply and related matters”, and published on May 3, clearly established new measures regarding the supply of electricity foreign customers (Togo, Benin and Niger).
The supply ceiling must not exceed 6% of the total electricity in the network for an initial period of 6 months. This is also subject to revision based on the results obtained.
These decisions result from irregularities observed in the supply of foreign customers. NERC holds the grid operator responsible and says its opaque management has caused considerable hardship to Nigerians. She strongly criticizes foreign and bilateral contracts for their lax conditions on the one hand and operators who often exceed the contractual level during peak periods without being sanctioned.
These irregularities weaken the Nigerian network which collapsed for the fifth time in 2024 and for several weeks, the population has been entitled to less than 4,000 MW injected into the network, which is far from satisfying demand.
The report, published in the last quarter of 2023, shed light on what is undermining the Nigerian electricity network. He said foreign customers who are Benin, Togo and Niger, owe a total of $12.02 million in unpaid debts to Nigerian power companies.
Power cuts have become frequent in Nigeria due to a recently worsening electricity shortage. Companies have increased rates for some domestic customers who should receive more electricity each day, but the supply is not enough.
Many complaints arise every day among the population.
Source: lalternative.info
