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Expert Decries Absence Of Technology To Boost Electricity Distribution

An Engineer, Kenechukwu Agu, has decried his inability to deploy the technology that could boost revenue for electricity distribution companies (DISCOS) and slash the electricity bills for consumers, three years after it gained endorsement of the National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC).
The technology was approved by NERC in 2017 for use. The Commission had gone further to recommend that its pilot scheme project should begin with Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) before it could be replicated to the other DISCOS across the country.
The design is expected to eliminate electricity theft; lead to an era of slash in electricity bills (tariff) across the nation, create employment; stimulate the economy and revamp the power sector by making it more profitable for investment.
Speaking with journalists in Enugu, Agu, the Managing Director of EVANPOWER Engineering, said the Nigerian Breweries Plc has refused to pay for his blueprint even after consenting to having custody of it and appropriating it.
In addition, Agu said the Nigerian Breweries Plc also refused to pay for all the works his company executed in the Access Control Systems project at Ama Brewery, Enugu.
Agu insisted that the “confiscation of his blueprint and the refusal” by the Nigerian Breweries Plc to pay for it alongside the works we executed on the Access Control Systems at Ama Brewery has stalled the implementation of his technology for the nation and jeopardized his company operations.”
Agu said that the Nigerian Breweries Plc is indebted to him to the tune of over N753million made up of over N3millon for works on the Access Control Systems, as well as N750million for non consented custody and appropriation of his intellectual property without his knowledge, consent, permission, authority and approval.