The risk you already know
Demand is not the problem. Demand is overwhelming. The problem is that revenue leaks somewhere between generation and collection, and nobody can say where. That makes the cashflows impossible to underwrite.
Energy measurement · Nigeria
You can't fix what
You can't fix what
you can't see.
Nigerian DisCos lose energy they can't account for. NGriid measures every kilowatt-hour from the distribution transformer to the consumer connection. You see where it was delivered, where it was lost, and where it was stolen.
LIVE / --:--:-- WAT / LIVE DEMO DATA
- ENERGY IN
- BILLED
- UNACCOUNTED
- ▲ 1.2%
LIVE DEMO DATA
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What we do, and what we don't
Nigeria's power problems start upstream. We work on the part you can measure.
Generation shortfalls, gas supply and transmission constraints sit outside any DisCo's control. We don't generate electricity. We don't transmit it. We measure what happens after it reaches your network.
Every kilowatt-hour that enters a transformer ends up in one of three places:
- delivered and paid for
- lost to physics
- lost to theft or billing gaps
Separate those three and you know what to fix. Leave them mixed and every number is an estimate. That's what NGriid measures.
~₦400bn+ in annual revenue leakage across Nigerian DisCos
%+ of energy lost to technical, commercial and collection losses at many DisCos
feeders you can fix, finance or improve without measuring them first
Where every kilowatt-hour goes
Seven numbers that explain the gap.
Quasar, the software NGriid builds, follows energy from the transformer to the consumer connection and sorts it into seven categories. Scroll to follow one kilowatt-hour through all of them.
TOTAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTED – 0.0%
- 01 · TOTAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTED
Start with what entered the network.
Measured at the distribution transformer. This is the number nobody argues about: the energy a DisCo took custody of that month.
– 0.0% 12 MONTHS - 02 · TOTAL REVENUE REALIZED
Then what came back as revenue.
Billed, collected, banked. The distance between this bar and the one above it is the whole business.
– 0.0% 12 MONTHS - 03 · ATC&C LOSSES
The gap between them.
Technical, commercial and collection losses added together. On an unmeasured network, this is an estimate. On a measured one, it becomes a list you can work through.
– 0.0% 12 MONTHS - 04 · COLLECTION LOSS (NORMAL)
Billed, not yet paid.
Consumers behind on their bills. The debt is real, and it is recoverable. Quasar shows which feeders and bands still carry it.
– 0.0% 12 MONTHS - 05 · COLLECTION LOSS (THEFT)
Billed, but likely evaded.
Consumers whose balance only deepens, month after month. Ordinary arrears get paid down; these do not. Each unpaid balance is tagged to a consumer, a terminal and a time.
– 0.0% 12 MONTHS - 06 · COMMERCIAL LOSS
Used, never billed.
Energy drawn off the network before it reaches a billed connection: bypassed branch segments, and load on terminals nobody registered. No invoice exists for it. Quasar measures it anyway, and tells you where it went.
– 0.0% 12 MONTHS - 07 · TECHNICAL LOSS
What physics takes.
Heat in conductors and transformers. Every network loses some. The question is whether yours loses more than it should, and only measurement answers that.
– 0.0% 12 MONTHS
How Quasar works
Four steps from raw readings to a work order.
Quasar turns raw device readings into an explanation of where every kilowatt-hour went.
- 01
Measure both ends
NGriid devices sit at the distribution transformer and at the consumer connection. You know how much energy entered the feeder, and how much arrived.
- 02
Compare them
Quasar matches energy delivered against energy billed, at every level of the network. The difference is your loss.
- 03
Separate the losses
Heat in the wires, energy used but never billed, bills never paid. Each behaves differently, so Quasar tells them apart and your team chases the right problem.
- 04
Act on it
Loss alerts name the transformer and the time window. Your team gets somewhere to inspect instead of a suspicion to chase.
Every number has an explanation
Open any figure and see what's behind it.
A number you can't investigate is a number you can't act on. Click a loss figure in Quasar and it opens: the transformers, the time windows, the kilowatt-hours. Your team gets a work order instead of a suspicion.
RISING LOSS IS FLAGGED IN RED.
For DisCos
Stop guessing where your losses are.
Your losses are already happening. The only question is whether you can find them.
Talk to our grid team-
Losses, per transformer, per day
See the difference between energy received and energy billed for every transformer, every day. Not a quarterly reconciliation months after the fact.
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Theft with an address
When losses cluster on one transformer at the same hour each night, "we think there is theft around here" becomes a street and a time.
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ATC&C numbers you can defend
Measured, timestamped loss data you can put in a regulatory filing and hold up in a tariff conversation.
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Collections that follow the energy
Send enforcement crews and new devices where the missing energy actually is, not where the last audit guessed.
For investors Power theft is a key reason capital avoids this sector.
Power theft is a key reason capital avoids this sector.
We exist to remove that.
What measurement changes
Once losses are measured, they stop being an unknown and become a line item you can manage down. Recovery shows up quarter after quarter, and recovery you can measure is recovery you can finance.
Why it pays
Every percentage point of loss recovered is new revenue without building new generation. Measuring losses is the cheapest capacity in the sector.
MEASURE THE LOSS → RECOVER THE REVENUE → FINANCE THE NETWORK
Start with one feeder Instrument one feeder.
Instrument one feeder.
Measure it for 30 days.
Decide with data.
We instrument a single feeder end to end and hand you thirty days of measured energy. If the numbers don't justify scaling, you'll know that too — and you'll know it from data rather than a guess.