Nigeria’s electricity distribution companies ended 2025 with a modest improvement in customer metering, closing December with 6,966,584 metered customers and a national metering rate of 57.27 per cent, fresh data released by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission have shown.
The latest figures seen on Wednesday indicate that 109,556 customers were newly metered in December alone, up from 88,592 recorded in November, signalling a late-year acceleration in meter deployment across the 11 distribution companies.
As of December 2025, the total number of active electricity customers, defined as those billed or who vended electricity at least once within a 12-month period, stood at 12,163,412.
Of this figure, 6,966,584 have been metered, leaving about 5.19 million customers still on estimated billing. The data disclosed that the number of metered customers in Nigeria’s power sector moved closer to the seven-million mark for the first time, rising to 6,966,584 as of December 2025.
This represents an increase of 677,942 meters within the 12 months of 2025, compared to 6,288,642 metered customers recorded in December 2024. In percentage terms, this translates to a 10.78 per cent year-on-year growth in metered customers.
