Get BEDC Prepaid Meter

How To Get BEDC Prepaid Meter

Every body’s desire is to get an equivalent value of service for the cash paid for a particular service. But that’s not been the case with the Nigerian Electricity Industry lately. Imagine a situation where you will be told that you are to pay for the cost of the calls you have made for the week or month on estimation.

Sometimes the estimation method may be favorable to some, but in majority of the case, its not favorable to the users. And it gets even worse if the metrics used to calculate such estimation is not standard based. 

Then there is room for the estimation calculation method to be jeopardized and slammed on the users of such services.

And trust me that the metrics which will be used to calculate the estimated values of your calls for the week or month is one which wouldn’t be favorable to you.

The above analogy paints a picture of one of the major challenges faced by Nigerian electricity users. This challenge of having a standard energy measuring device (energy meter) been available to all electricity users in Nigeria have persisted for a while now.

While several efforts have been made in time past by the federal government of Nigeria to address this issue of energy meter shortage in the nation, there haven’t seem to be a lasting solution to the challenge of metering.

Though several programs have been introduced in time past, but they have all failed to perfectly solve the problem of all Nigerians getting a prepaid meter.

Let me save you time by not taking you back to the several programs which have been introduced to solve the metering problems in Nigeria.

So lets head straight on to

How To Get A Prepaid Meter In BEDC

BEDC have outlined the process one needs to undergo before they can get a prepaid meter in their premises.

Now this process applies to both the residential, commercial and industrial customers. The process have been simplified into 6 steps:

11.    Customer Enumeration: this process requires the customer to fill the know your customer form (KYC) online at www.bedcpower.com and be enumerated.

22.  Fill MAP form: this process requires the customer to obtain and complete the MAP application form from the MAP assigned to your area. Your business unit should tell you the MAP which have been assigned to meter your area.

33.   Premises Inspection: this process requires that after the MAP application form have been filled and submitted, a local electrical contractor (LECAN) or a registered coren engineer have to visit the customer’s premises for inspection and certification that the customer’s premises is ready for metering. The LECAN will also recommend to the customer the total number of cable length needed to buy for the installation of their meter to the closet distribution pole.

44.    Pay for the Meter: This process requires that after the customer’s premises have successfully pass the readiness assessment, the customer can now be issued with a customized bank teller to pay into the account of the designated MAP. Customers can either be advised to pay N38,850 for the single phase prepaid meter or N70,410 for the three phase prepaid meter.

55.    Customers are metered: customers will now be metered within 10 working days after confirmation of their payment.

66.    Customer to sign meter installation acceptance form: this process is the final step in the metering steps. It requires that the customer signs a meter installation acceptance form. Upon the signing of this form, the customer hereby agrees that the meter have been installed n their premises and also agrees to abide by the metering regulations as outline by BEDC to ensure that customers do not engage in sharp practices such as meter tampering.

If you have successfully gone through the process, the you should have a prepaid meter installed in your premises.

But if you don’t have a meter installed in your premises after going through all the process outlined above, you can use the comment section below and I will find time to help you.