By Bassey Udo
The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) tops the 12 electricity distribution companies (DisCos) with the highest number of newly metered customers in the country for October 2025, the latest Metering Factsheet released by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on the status of customers’ metering has shown.
The Factsheet released on Friday in Abuja showed that out of a total number of 106,822 newly installed meters across all the electricity distribution franchises operated by the different DisCos in the country at the metering rate of 56.07 percent, the AEDC accounted for 19,118, at the metering rate of 75.82 percent.
This figure is higher than the number of newly installed metered customers recorded during the month by both Aba DisCo (18,906 meters at the metering rate of 78.20 percent) and Ikeja DisCo (17,046 meters at the metering rate of 85.49 percent), followed by Ibadan DisCo, which recorded a total of 15,739 newly metered customers at the metering rate of 51.40 percent.
The performance by other DisCos showed that Enugu recorded a total of 11,826 at a metering rate of 47.83 percent; Benin, 10,208 at a metering rate of 51.78 percent; Eko, 6,435 at a metering rate of 84.75 percent, and Port Harcourt, 3,777, at the metering rate of 61.38 percent as well as Yola, 1,665, at the metering rate of 28.92 percent.
Also, Kaduna DisCo recorded a total of 931 numbers of newly metered customers at the metering rate of 33.72 percent, followed by Jos, 768, a metering rate of 29.74 percent, and Kano, which recorded the lowest number of newly metered customers of 403, at a metering rate of 34.50 percent.
The total number of metered customers recorded as at October 2025, the NERC document showed, stood at 6,768,386, against a total number of 12,071,018 active metered customers across all the electricity franchise in the country.
Further breakdown of these figures showed that Ibadan DisCo topped with the highest number of 2,418,255 active customers, out of which 1,242,864 are newly metered; followed by Enugu, with 1,458,588 active customers, out of which 697,656 are newly metered, and AEDC, with 1, 328,060 active customers, out of which 1,006,945 are newly metered, as well as Ikeja, 1,300,940 active customers, out of which 1,113,421 are newly metered.
During the month, Port Harcourt DisCo recorded a total of 1,051,359 active customers, out of which 645,357 are newly metered; Benin, 1,038,368 active customers, out of which 537,640 are newly metered; Jos, 816,889 active customers, out of which 242,969 are newly metered; Kano, 795,041 active customers, out of which 274,303 are newly metered.
Other DisCos include Eko, 633,213 active customers, out of which 536,636 are newly metered; Kaduna, 540,421 active customers, out of which 182,245 are newly metered; Yola, 509,6781 active customers, out of which 147,423 are newly metered, and Aba, with the least number of active customers 180,206, out which 140,929 are newly metered during the month.
Comparatively, the Factsheet revealed that the number of newly metered customers was higher in October (106,822) than the preceding month (80,943), with visible evidence that the longstanding metering gap in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) is gradually being bridged by the DisCos.
With the latest performance by the DisCos, the national metering rate grew during the month, from 55.37 percent in September to 56.07 percent, while the number of active electricity customers rose slightly from 12.03 million to 12.07 million, and the total number of metered customers jumped from 6.66 million to 6.77 million.
