{"id":216613,"date":"2025-12-14T02:48:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T00:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-discos-metered-187000-new-electricity-consumers-in-two-months-nerc\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T02:48:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T00:48:34","slug":"nigeria-discos-metered-187000-new-electricity-consumers-in-two-months-nerc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-discos-metered-187000-new-electricity-consumers-in-two-months-nerc\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Discos Metered 187,000 New Electricity Consumers in Two Months &#8211; Nerc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) says that Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) metered more than 187,000 new consumers in September and October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The commission made this known in its latest Metering Fact Sheet released on its website in Abuja on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">According to the commission, the factsheet shows how DisCos are progressing in closing the country&#8217;s metering gap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The report showed that 80,943 customers were metered in September, while 106,822 new meters were&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512120569.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) says that Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) metered more than 187,000 new consumers in September and October. The commission made this known in its latest Metering Fact Sheet released on its website in Abuja on Friday. According to the commission, the factsheet shows how DisCos are progressing in closing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":216614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,9223,13472,4895,53130,7061,50010,257,4687,393,254],"class_list":["post-216613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-consumers","tag-discos","tag-electricity","tag-metered","tag-months","tag-nerc","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}