The Nigerian Electrical energy Administration Providers Company (NEMSA) and the Nigerian Impartial System Operator (NISO) have introduced a collaborative initiative geared toward strengthening security measures, imposing technical requirements, and enhancing metering accuracy throughout the nation’s energy sector.
The managing director of NISO, Engr. Abdu Mohammed, reaffirmed NEMSA’s important function in imposing technical requirements and laws, conducting testing and certification {of electrical} installations and gear all through the sector.
“NEMSA’s mandate to implement laws, conduct rigorous testing, and certify electrical installations and gear is important for the sector’s integrity,” he acknowledged. Engr. Mohammed highlighted a urgent problem: “Nigeria’s excessive Technical Loss Issue (TLF) is essentially attributable to inaccurate and poorly calibrated metering programs. Addressing that is pressing,” Mohammed mentioned, in a press release by NEMSA’s head, Communications & Protocol, Ama Umoren
He highlighted the pressing want to handle Nigeria’s excessive Technical Loss Issue (TLF), which is essentially attributed to inaccurate and poorly calibrated metering programs.
The MD/CEO NISO urged NEMSA to prioritise clear and correct certification of meters to scale back losses and enhance effectivity, stressing that every one new substations and transmission traces — whether or not managed by Transmission Service Suppliers (TSPs), Era Corporations (GENCOs), or Distribution Corporations (DISCOs) — should be totally examined and licensed by NEMSA earlier than commissioning.
In his response, the MD/CEO NEMSA & chief electrical inspector of the federation Engr. Aliyu Tukur Tahir underscored the company’s unwavering dedication to imposing security, technical requirements and laws according to its mandate.
He outlined the challenges going through the sector, together with grid instability brought on by the indiscriminate use of 33kV feeders, prolonged enforcement processes, and noncompliance by some DISCOs.
To handle these challenges, each companies agreed to collaborate in addition to fast-track enforcement by introducing administrative sanctions to keep away from prolonged authorized processes the place vital.In a big step, a Joint Technical Workforce — consisting of representatives from each side was constituted.
The group will give attention to key areas together with metering, requirements, inspectorate companies, renewables, monetary and logistics frameworks. Their fast precedence would be the recertification and standardisation of grid metering programs nationwide.
Each companies additionally pledged to share knowledge, collaborate with different stakeholders just like the Requirements Organisation of Nigeria (SON) and the Nigerian Customs Service to curb the inflow of substandard electrical supplies.
Trying forward, the MD/CEO NEMSA mentioned the Company is growing protocols to soundly combine mini-grids and power storage programs with the nationwide grid according to Nigeria’s renewable power targets.
The MD/CEO NEMSA additionally reiterated the company’s assist for a evaluate of the Electrical energy Act to strengthen its enforcement powers.
Via this partnership, NEMSA and NISO purpose to ship safer, extra compliant, and extra dependable electrical energy infrastructure for all Nigerians, the MD/CEO NEMSA acknowledged.
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