No Cause For Alarm Over Prepaid Metre Upgrade… NEMSA

Managing Director/CEO, Nigerian Electricity Management Services Agency(NEMSA) Engr. Aliyu Tukur has assured the public of NEMSA’S readiness to ensure that all electricity meters and instruments deployed by the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) to electricity consumers across the country are of the right standards, specifications,safety and quality, needed to accurately measure and record electrical energy consumed, including assurance guarantee for safety of lives and property for end users of electricity .

Tukur gave the assurance while reacting to enquiries by electricity consumers, who have been apprehensive in recent weeks, over ongoing conversation around Standard Transfer Specification (STS) prepaid meter upgrade.

The apprehension on the part of electricity consumers nationwide has been largely borne out of news, that by November, 24, 2024, consumers who failed to upgrade their prepared metres, will no longer be in a position to use such metres going forward after the expiration date.

Engineer tukur while given clarifications on the upgrade process, urged electricity consumers not to be afraid, noting that the upgrade will require key change tokens through the roll over bit which will be provided by the distribution companies, tukur further noted, that when the key change tokens are imputed, the process will force the metres to reset the TID stack memory to zero and change the metre key simultaneously for the upgrade completion circle.

In recent weeks, electricity distribution companies across the country have called on their customers to take advantage of the window to upgrade their prepared metres ahead of the November, 24, 2024 deadline.