Nigeria’s electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) collected ₦220.93bn in revenue in August 2026, a 7.49 per cent increase over the previous month, according to the latest factsheet from the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC).
The factsheet, which tracks the financial health and efficiency of the 11 DisCos nationwide, shows that the industry recorded gains in billing, collection and revenue recovery during the month.
The DisCos received energy valued at ₦346.49bn, up 3.76 per cent from July. Of this amount, ₦261.10bn was billed to customers, a rise of 4.11 per cent. Billing efficiency stood at 75.36 per cent, an improvement of 0.26 percentage points.
Against the ₦261.10bn billed, the DisCos collected ₦220.93bn, which put collection efficiency at 84.62 per cent. This was 2.66 percentage points higher than the figure for July.
The allowed average tariff was ₦130.15 per kilowatt hour (kWh), while the actual average collection was ₦101.03 per kWh, an increase of 3.62 per cent. The industry’s overall recovery efficiency reached 77.63 per cent, up 2.71 percentage points.
Eko DisCo recorded the highest recovery efficiency at 96.29 per cent, followed by Ikeja at 84.22 per cent and Abuja at 83.63 per cent. Port Harcourt also did well, with 82.91 per cent.
Ikeja posted the best collection efficiency at 97.52 per cent, ahead of Eko at 96.36 per cent and Abuja at 91.91 per cent.
In terms of billing, Eko led with 84.49 per cent, followed by Kano at 82.24 per cent and Port Harcourt at 80.22 per cent.
Kaduna DisCo had the weakest recovery efficiency at 41.90 per cent, although this was 2.19 percentage points better than in July. Jos followed with 52.80 per cent and Kano with 60.98 per cent.
Kaduna also recorded the lowest billing efficiency at 60.92 per cent and the second lowest collection efficiency at 55.44 per cent. Jos had the lowest collection efficiency at 61.98 per cent among the DisCos, apart from Kaduna.
The remaining DisCos posted the following recovery efficiency levels: Benin (77.36 per cent), Enugu (71.49 per cent), Ibadan (71.22 per cent) and Yola (70.61 per cent).
Performance moved in different directions across the companies. Benin, Ibadan, Port Harcourt and Yola saw their recovery efficiency decline compared with July, with Yola recording the sharpest drop of 7.63 percentage points.
Yola also had the steepest fall in collection efficiency at 11.80 percentage points, followed by Ibadan at 8.78 points.
Under NERC’s colour coding, a recovery rate below 50 per cent is rated red, between 50 and below 80 per cent is amber, and 80 per cent or above is green.
In August, Eko, Ikeja, Abuja and Port Harcourt were in the green category, Kaduna was in the red, and the rest were rated amber.
