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DisCos Collect ₦205.53bn of July Power Bills, NERC Reports
Nigeria’s electricity distributors collected ₦205.53bn of ₦250.79bn billed in July, according to NERC.
Nigeria’s electricity distribution companies collected ₦205.53 billion from customers in July 2026 against ₦250.79 billion billed, according to a commercial performance factsheet published by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on 24 September. The regulator put collection efficiency for the month at 81.95%.
What the billing gap shows
The difference between bills issued and payments collected is ₦45.26 billion. That figure is a calculation from NERC’s two industry totals. It does not identify which customers had unpaid bills, or why the money had not been collected.
NERC valued the energy received by distributors at ₦333.94 billion and said they billed ₦250.79 billion of it. Billing efficiency stood at 75.10%. Billing efficiency measures the first step, converting the value of energy received into customer bills; collection efficiency measures the next step, converting those bills into payments. The regulator separately reported overall revenue recovery efficiency of 74.91%.
Which DisCos led on recovery?
Eko recorded the highest recovery efficiency at 94.67%, followed by Port Harcourt at 84.95% and Benin at 79.15%, NERC said. Those percentages rank recovery performance; they are not the individual naira totals collected by the three companies.
What to watch
These figures cover one reporting month and describe the distributors’ commercial performance, rather than the size of any household’s bill or the reliability of its power supply. Later monthly figures will show whether the amount billed and the amount collected move closer together or farther apart. NERC’s July highlights alone do not establish a trend or explain the causes of the gap.