據今日油價網站4月22日消息 世界銀行在一份關于非洲最大歐佩克產油國的估計中稱，由于電力供應不可靠，尼日利亞企業每年損失約290億美元。

　　據尼日利亞媒體報道，世界銀行在本周與記者舉行的一次虛擬會議上表示：“尼日利亞公用事業公司的電費只有收到的一半。”

　　世界銀行表示，由于配電基礎設施不完善和竊電，配電公司在收到的電力上虧本，而另一部分則輸給了不付賬的客戶。

　　根據世界銀行的電力部門復蘇計劃簡報，登記的客戶中有六成沒有計量，他們的電費也不透明、不清楚，從而導致了支付電費的阻力。

　　盡管尼日利亞是石油和天然氣的主要生產國，但據世界銀行估計，尼日利亞是世界上能源短缺最嚴重的國家。共有8500萬尼日利亞人無法使用電網，這意味著43%的人口無法使用電網。

　　世界銀行今年2月表示，根據《2020年世界銀行營商環境報告》，尼日利亞在190個國家中獲得電力的排名為171位，電力供應被視為私營行業的主要制約因素之一。

　　當時，世界銀行批準了5億美元，以支持尼日利亞政府改善該國的配電行業。世行資助的這一項目有望通過尼日利亞人長期以來所希望的大規模計量計劃，改善配電公司DISCOs的業績，從而有助于促進電力供應。

　　王磊 摘譯自 今日油價

　　原文如下：

　　Africa’s Largest Oil Producer Loses $29B Per Year On Power Outages

　　Businesses in Nigeria are losing each year around US$29 billion because of the unreliable power supply, the World Bank said in an estimate about the OPEC country, which is the largest oil producer in Africa.

　　“Businesses in Nigeria lose about $29bn annually because of unreliable electricity. Nigerian utilities get paid for only a half of electricity they receive,” the World Bank said in a presentation at a virtual meeting with journalists this week, Nigerian outlet Punch reported.

　　Distribution power companies lose money on the electricity they receive as part of it is lost to poor distribution infrastructure and power theft, while another part is lost to customers not paying their bills, the World Bank said.

　　“Six in 10 of registered customers are not metered, and their electricity bills are not transparent and clear. This contributes to resistance to pay electricity bills,” according to the World Bank’s Power Sector Recovery Programme fact sheet carried by Punch.

　　Despite being a major producer of oil and gas, Nigeria is the country with the largest energy access deficit in the world, the World Bank has estimated. A total of 85 million Nigerians do not have access to grid electricity, which means that 43 percent of the population is without access to the grid.

　　According to the 2020 World Bank Doing Business report, Nigeria ranks 171 out of 190 countries in getting electricity and electricity access is seen as one of the major constraints for the private sector, the bank said in February this year.

　　Back then, the World Bank approved US$500 million to support the government of Nigeria in improving the country’s electricity distribution sector. The project funded by the bank is expected to help to boost electricity access by improving the performance of the Electricity Distribution Companies (DISCOs) through a large-scale metering program desired by Nigerians for a long time.