It is believed that two third of the homes in Nigeria have either a refrigerator or an air conditioner: two power consuming appliances which require conscious power consumption management according to the federal government….CONTINUE READING
A few days after the federal government jacked up electricity tariff, causing angry outburst of reactions across the country, the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu revealed yesterday that Nigerians with heavy appliances will have to pay more for electricity.
While expressing concern over Nigerians’ lack of power consumption management, the minister asked Nigerians to turn off their refrigerators, air conditioners when they are leaving their houses or when they don’t need them operating from today.
He lamented that some people will leave their freezers on for days when all the items in the freezer are frozen.
He also decried that some people will leave these heavy appliances on when they are going to work in the morning instead of turning them off.
The minister, who said Nigerians lack of power consumption management attributed it to the low cost of electricity.
He added: “Some people will be going to work in the morning, a freezer that you left on for days, they will still leave it on when all the items in the freezer are frozen and five, six, eight hours of their absence will not make it to defreeze, they will still leave it to be consuming power just because we are not paying enough.
“A lot of people will come back from work, they want to have dinner, or they want to see their colleagues down the road, they switch on the AC for the room to be cooling before they come back.
“We have all been overseas before. We know how conscious the power consumers are to consumption of electricity.”
Adelabu further said: “We don’t have the culture of consumption management in terms of power just because of the cheapness.”
On Wednesday, at a press briefing in Abuja, Musliu Oseni, Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), said electricity tariff has increased by 300 percent in the country.
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