Kogi Commission Promises Sustainable Electricity Supply

Kogi State Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) says it’s committed to designing a strategy that guarantees a reliable, affordable and sustainable energy proviso to the state’s residents.

It assured consumers of the extortion of their rights and a level playing tract for the operators.
The commission’s president and main enforcement serviceman (CEO), Engr Ibrahim Abdwaaris, said erstwhile the national government, done its reforms, opened the mode for states to found their energy regulatory commissions, it was not simply a argumentation shift, but a telephone connected states to instrumentality ownership of their vigor destiny.

He spoke astatine a stakeholders’ engagement connected tariff establishment, with the theme, “Transparency and Public Participation successful Electricity Tariff Setting” held successful Lokoja yesterday.

The president said the committee had embraced the inaugural “with clarity of intent to physique a strategy that guarantees reliable, affordable and sustainable energy for our people.

“Since inception, the committee has worked tirelessly to plan an energy marketplace that reflects the realities of our State portion drafting spot from nationalist and planetary champion practices.

“Our travel has been 1 of changeless dialogue, engaging communities, manufacture operators, user groups and improvement partners. We person made it a constituent to listen, to larn and to trade solutions that are fair, transparent, and workable,” helium said.

“We cognize that tariffs are often 1 of the astir delicate issues successful energy markets. Consumers are acrophobic astir affordability, portion operators interest astir recovering costs and making the investments indispensable to amended service. Our work arsenic a committee is to equilibrium these interests fairly. That is wherefore our tariff methodology volition beryllium guided by 3 halfway principles of fairness, ensuring that consumers are not exploited. At the aforesaid time, work providers tin stay viable,” the committee brag said.

The commissioner for Information and Communications, Kingsley Femi Fanwo, said the authorities authorities would guarantee transparency and accountability successful regulating tariffs and powerfulness distribution.

He called connected the stakeholders to beryllium frank successful their discussions truthful that the energy marketplace successful the authorities could beryllium amended regulated.