House Hold Actual Average Power Consumption with New Prepaid Meter Tariff - An Incident from Distribution Companies

The absence of actual power consumption information in the average household apartment has often
made many electricity users in Nigeria to be at disagreement with their service providers. The Prepaid
meters have many applications in generation, transmission, and distribution of electric power in
Nigeria. This makes their actual power measurement to be an important issue. In this work, actual
power consumption of each load was determined and was used to study the time each load will use to
consume 30.8 EEDC units when it is constantly connected to the power supply. The analytical method
was used to investigate the collected date for different appliance consumption rate with respect to
time. This experiment was conducted in a flat located at the Eastern part of Enugu state of Nigeria.
Each of the load was subjected to test to determine the current, and voltages across them. The actual
power consumption of each load was calculated. The time for each actual power to completely
consume 30.8 units was calculated. The corresponding amount in naira per day of the actual
consumption of each load was calculated. The results show that phone, and lighting points will take
longer time (18421.05 and 5589.8 hours) to drain the 30.8 units and, also have the least consumption
cost per day. While electrical pressing iron will take 8.95hours to drain the 30.8 units, and they have
the highest cost. By optimal combination of these loads, it will make economic sense for the
subscribers of prepaid meter, and consumers will enjoy their money with ease and comfort.