Metered electricity customers in Nigeria increased to 5.47 million in the second quarter of 2023.
The National Bureau of Statistics’ latest data on ‘Nigeria Electricity Report Q2 2023: Energy Billed, Revenue Generated And Customers By DISCOS’ disclosed this on Friday.
Accordingly, the 5.47 million metered electricity customers figure represented a 3.10 per cent increase from the 5.31 million recorded in Q1 2023.
Meanwhile, customers on estimated meters stood at 6 million, higher by 0.72 per cent from 5.96 million in Q1 2023.
In a combined figure, the total number of electricity customers in Q2 2023 stood at 11.47 million from 11.27 million in Q1 2023.