FG, NERC launches New App

By: Osayi Omorogbe.

The Federal Government through the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has launched an application called the Power Outage Reporting System, which enables consumers to report electricity disruptions to distribution companies.

It unveiled the applications at the Abuja headquarters of NERC, using the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company as a test-run DisCo.

The NERC Chairman, Sanusi Garba, said the application would enable the commission to effectively tackle power distributors that fail to address electricity disruptions reported by consumers.

In his statement, “We recently launched a new regulation that provides timelines within which public utilities, especially DisCos, are required to resolve com…