Nigeria records 59.69% electricity metering rate as 5.13m customers remain unmetered

The fig of unmetered energy customers successful Nigeria stood astatine 5,132,994 retired of 12,457,068 progressive energy customers.

This is according to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission’s metering presumption study for March and April 2026.

NERC’s information showed that the country’s metering complaint stood astatine 59.69 percent during the play nether review.

Accordingly, the figures bespeak that 7,324,074 of the 12,457,068 progressive energy customers were metered, representing 58.80 percent, portion 5,132,994 customers, representing 41.20 percent, remained unmetered.

NERC said Nigeria’s energy organisation companies, DisCos metered an further 111,654 customers successful April, pursuing 115,905 metre installations successful March.

Further investigation of the information showed that Eko DisCo recorded the highest metering complaint astatine 88.78 percent, followed by Ikeja DisCo (87.93 percent) and Abuja DisCo (80.08 percent).

DAILY POST reports that energy consumers successful Abuja and its environs wage betwixt N100,835 and N148,162 for a single-phase meter, w...