958,533 energy users were metered by the 11 Distribution Companies of Nigeria, DISCOs, in 2021 across various commercial districts.
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), according to data, metered 273,578 users in the first quarter of 211, 315,717 in the second, 288,154 in the third, and 81,084 in the fourth.
Despite the N60 billion support financing from the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and other initiatives, the metering gap is still significant and often hovers around 55%.
While it would likely take one to two years to address the metering gap, customers needed to be aware of their options for getting metres, according to Sunny Oduntan, Executive Director of Research and Advocacy at ANED.
He clarified that while the Federal Government's National Mass Metering Program was established to provide free metres, the Meter Asset Provider plan was not developed to provide free metres right once.