BREAKING NEWS, Power
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The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission and Standard Organisation of Nigeria have signed an agreement to ensure strict compliance with safety and standards in power generation, transmission and distribution
| By Anayo Ezugwu | Aug 24, 2015 @ 01:00 GMT |
THE Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, is making moves to ensure safety and standards in the power sector by signing a fresh agreement with the Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON. The agreement will ensure strict adherence to safety and reliability standards in the generation, transmission, distribution and consumption of electricity in Nigeria. NERC and SON signed the Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, to ensure that electricity generation and usage in the country is done with zero or minimal accident rates.
The two organisations would collaborate to ensure compliance and enforcement of approved technical standards in the country’s electricity sector. Sam Amadi, chairman, NERC and Joseph Odumodu, director general, SON, who signed the MoU are expected to enforce government policies on standardisation of quality products, including sizes in the sector, and equally destroy substandard or defective goods that are found in the electricity market. In addition, parties in the MoU also agreed to preserve and promote the enforcement of already existing standards established by the SON specifically for the power sector.
According to report on NERC website, the organisations agreed to set up a six-man committee with three members from each of the organisations to give effect to the objectives of the MoU. Amadi stated after signing the MoU that the country’s public electricity systems were beginning to witness some good improvements which needed to be protected from unhealthy developments.
“The law requires that we ensure electricity is safe, adequate and reliable. You cannot talk of reliability and safety without standard and SON is reputed for setting standard. We have areas of collaboration beyond signing of this MoU which has been going on for some years now. This MoU is to build on that collaborative effort. We have been experiencing increase in electricity supply lately and we only hope that the trend will continue. We do not want to see the downside of that increase, we therefore need to set safety and reliability standards,” he said.
Similarly, Odumodu, in his remarks, stated that usage of electricity in the country should always come with maximum adherence to safety and standards practices. He noted that irrespective of the shortage in public electricity supply in the country, Nigeria, like the rest of the world would have to imbibe standard practices in electricity usage. “Nigerians living in Nigeria should be safe as any other person living in any other part of the world. We are not there yet but we shall get there. We are beginning to see the benefits of standardisation in the electricity supply industry,” he said.
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