Nigeria’s electricity distribution companies installed 6,966,584 metered customers and a national metering rate of 57.27 per cent.
Data by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) showed that 109,556 customers were metered in December alone, up from 88,592 recorded in November.
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.
The national metering rate also improved significantly from 46.57 per cent in December 2024 to 57.27 per cent in December 2025, an increase of 10.7 percentage points.
Data show that meter installations equally rose from 572,055 end-use customer meters deployed in 2024 to 677,942 in 2025, indicating an additional 105,887 meters installed year-on-year, an 18.51 per cent increase in annual installations.
