{"id":9167,"date":"2018-05-23T13:34:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T13:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=9167"},"modified":"2018-05-23T13:34:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T13:34:48","slug":"easy-procurement-of-meters-22-firms-receive-nercs-no-objection-to-participate-in-meter-procurement-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=9167","title":{"rendered":"Easy procurement of meters: 22 Firms Receive NERC\u2019s \u2018No Objection\u2019 to Participate in Meter Procurement Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By<strong> Dr. Usman Abba Arabi,<\/strong>\u00a0General Manager, Public Affairs<br \/>\nFollowing the Commission\u2019s approval of the Meter Asset Provider (MAP) Regulations 2018, applications were invited from interested investors for \u2018No Objection\u2019 from the Commission.<br \/>\nMAP Regulations is intended to facilitate closure of the wide metering gap in the Nigeria Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) within three years. The \u2018No Objection\u2019 is to qualify intending investors to participate in the meter procurement process in NESI.<br \/>\nThe Regulation mandates electricity distribution companies (DISCOS) to engage meter assets providers who fund purchase, installation and replacement of meters to meet Discos metering obligations to their customers. This is to ensure that all electricity customers are metered thereby reducing incidences of estimated electricity billing to the barest minimum.<br \/>\nThe Commission having conducted due diligence on the supporting documents to the applications submitted by interested investors, has granted successful applicants \u2018No Objection\u2019 to participate in the procurement process for meter assets provision in accordance with section 8 subsection 4 of the Meter Assets Providers Regulations, 2018.<br \/>\nMembers of the public and intending investors should please note that the publication of these applicants does not foreclose other interested applicants from getting the \u2018No Objection\u2019 as it is a continuous exercise.<br \/>\nCompanies granted \u2018No Objection\u2019 include Huawei Technology Company Nigeria Limited; Bilview Energy Limited; Chintech Electro Nigeria Limited; Holley Metering Limited; Meron Nigeria Limited; Integrated Power Limited; MBH Power Limited; Trimani Engineering Limited; Sapropel Energy Resources Limited; Megawatt Distribution International Limited; Unistar Hi-Tech Systems Limited; and MOMAS Electricity Meters Manufacturing Company Limited.<br \/>\nOthers are Imperial Infrastructure Development Company Limited; Ratio Consulting Limited; Protogy Global Services Limited; Paktim Metering Nigeria Limited; Sabrud Consortium Nigeria Limited; Tinuten Nigeria Limited; Kayz Consortium Limited; BTS Power Limited; CIG Metering Assets Nigeria Limited and Cresthill Energy Limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dr. Usman Abba Arabi,\u00a0General Manager, Public Affairs Following the Commission\u2019s approval of the Meter Asset Provider (MAP) Regulations 2018, applications were invited from interested investors for \u2018No Objection\u2019 from the Commission. MAP Regulations is intended to facilitate closure of the wide metering gap in the Nigeria Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) within three years. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}