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DisCos installed 109,556 meters in December 2025: NERC

NERC listed Ikeja, Eko, and Abuja DisCos as the best performers, maintaining the highest metering rates above 76 per cent.

• March 3, 2026
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The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) says electricity distribution companies (DisCos) installed 109,556 meters in December 2025.

The figure, contained in the metering factsheet for November and December 2025, was released by the commission on Tuesday.

It said 88,592 customers were metered in November.

According to the fact sheet, the national metering rate rose to 57.27 per cent by the end of December, up from 56.54 per cent in November.

NERC listed Ikeja, Eko, and Abuja DisCos as the best performers, maintaining the highest metering rates above 76 per cent.

The report revealed that by December 2025, 6,966,584 customers were metered out of 12,163,412 active electricity customers nationwide.

(NAN)

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