The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has
approved an increase in electricity tariff across the country.
According to a directive issued on December 31, 2020, and
signed by Sanusi Garba, NERC chairman, the new tariff will take effect from
January 1.
The commission stated that the new tariff will be enforced
until the issuance of another minor review order or an extraordinary tariff
review order by the commission.
The NERC said some of the indices considered for the upward
review include Nigeria’s inflation rate, exchange rate, US rate of inflation,
available generation capacity, gas price, MDA losses and capex adjustment.
“This order
supersedes ORDER/NERC/ 202B/2020 and shall take effect from January 1, 2021,
and shall cease to have effect on the issuance of a new minor review order or
an extraordinary tariff review order by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory
Commission (“NERC” or the “commission”),” the commission said.
“The actual average monthly inflation rate of 13.1% for the
period January to November 2020 was used for review of the year 2020 tariffs,
while, the November 2020 inflation rate of 14.9% as obtained from the NBS was
adopted to project Nigerian inflation rates for the year 2021 and beyond.
“In line with the MYTO Methodology, the CBN official
exchange rates plus a premium of 1% were used for the retroactive review of the
year 2020. Accordingly, average NGN/USD exchange rate (+1%) for the period 1st
January 2020 to December 15, 2020, of N360.8 was used to review the year 2020 tariffs.
The NAFEX closing NGN/USD exchange rate (+1%) of N397.44 as at December 29,
2020, was adopted to project NGN/USD exchange rate for 2021 and beyond.
“The year 2020
projection on available generation is maintained for the first half (Jan-Jun)
of 2021 to account for the impact of the delay in the implementation of
MYTO-2020. No change was applied to generation projections from July 2021 and
beyond.
“A benchmark gas price of $2.50/MMBTU, gas transportation
cost of $0.80/MMBTU and gas prices outside the regulated rates for GenCos with
effective gas sale agreements (“GSAs”) were maintained.”
In November 2020, the electricity distribution companies
(DisCos) began implementation of a service-based reflective tariff (SRT)
structure nationwide after receiving approval from President Muhammadu Buhari.
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