Lagos electricity customers endured poor power supply in August as several Band A feeders failed to meet the minimum service level, with some recording zero hours of supply, data from the Lagos State Electricity Regulatory Commission has shown.
The commission’s August 2026 factsheets showed that Eko Power Limited had 201 compliant and 46 non-compliant feeders out of 247 Band A feeders, while Ikeja Electric recorded 113 compliant and 52 non-compliant feeders out of 165 Band A feeders.
The data showed that two Band A feeders under Eko Power – Akangba Ts_Nrc_Print Serve and Akoka Ts_Akoka Local T3a_Akoka_Unilag 1 – recorded zero hours of electricity supply during the month.
Similarly, 11-OgbaINJ-T1-Isokoko and three other Band A feeders operated by IE Energy Lagos recorded zero hours of supply. Despite the failures, some feeders delivered close to the 24-hour Band A service requirement.
Blue Rail Line was Eko Power’s best-performing feeder, recording an average of 23.9 hours of supply and full compliance across the 31 days of August. The top 10 Band A feeders under Eko Power averaged 23.9 hours, while the bottom 10 recorded an average of 13.1 hours. The overall Band A average stood at 21.9 hours.
For IE Energy, 132-EgbinTCN-MARYLAND-OMNIK was the best-performing feeder, recording an average of 24 hours of daily supply. The top 10 Band A feeders averaged 23.7 hours, while the bottom 10 averaged 12 hours. The overall Band A average was 21.3 hours.
The commission’s data showed that supply performance deteriorated further across the lower bands. Eko Power’s Band B feeders averaged 16.2 hours of supply, while Bands C, D and E averaged 12.6, 10.1 and 8.3 hours respectively.
For IE Energy, Band B averaged 15.3 hours, while Bands C, D and E averaged 12.3, 9.2 and 7.8 hours respectively.
Compliance was also lower across the bands. Eko Power recorded 36 compliant and 64 non-compliant feeders in Band B, 13 compliant and 29 non-compliant in Band C, six compliant and 10 non-compliant in Band D, and five compliant and 11 non-compliant in Band E.
IE Energy had 26 compliant and 53 non-compliant feeders in Band B, 20 compliant and 53 non-compliant in Band C, 19 compliant and 20 non-compliant in Band D, and two compliant and four non-compliant in Band E.
On metering, Eko Power had 841,681 customers, with 590,256 metered, representing a 70 per cent metering rate. It newly metered 1,979 customers in August. Ikeja had 1,120,107 customers, of whom 955,857 were metered, giving an 85 per cent metering rate. It newly metered 270 customers.
The commission said IE Energy metering rate fell from 86 per cent in July to 85 per cent in August, while Eko Power’s increased from 69 per cent to 70 per cent. Technical performance data showed that Eko Power recorded 833 faults on 33kV feeders and 1,483 faults on 11kV feeders.
IE Energy Lagos recorded 343 faults on 33kV feeders and 316 faults on 11kV feeders. Eko Power cleared 539 high-voltage faults on 33kV and 1,022 on 11kV within six hours, while IE Energy Lagos cleared 170 33kV faults and 146 11kV faults within the period.
The two distribution companies also recorded thousands of outages. Eko Power recorded 2,052 planned outages, 2,316 unplanned outages, 56 transmission-related outages and 3,145 load-shedding incidents.
IE Energy Lagos recorded 59 planned outages, 46 unplanned outages, 1,539 transmission-related outages and 4,096 load-shedding incidents.
The data further showed that Eko Power recorded 7,583 customer interruptions, affecting 802,907 customers, while IE Energy Lagos recorded 2,583 customer interruptions, affecting 5,217 customers.
The LASERC factsheets cover minimum service level compliance, feeder ranking performance, metering status and technical performance for Eko Power Limited and IE Energy Lagos Limited in August 2026.
