DISCOs: Netzence develops energy theft monitoring device, issue carbon credit
19 billion revenue loss in the fourth quarter of 2025 after industry-wide losses exceeded the regulatory benchmark, Netzence Sustainability Limited (Netzence) has developed a monitoring technology it says could help utilities find and mitigate suspected energy theft faster, tighten energy accounting and protect cash needed across the electricity value chain.
A controlled pilot on selected high-loss feeders and dedicated customer supplies would need to establish a baseline and report device availability, alert-to-investigation time, the proportion of alerts confirmed in the field, changes in unaccounted energy, revenue protected or recovered, false-positive rates and customer complaints.
The Nigerian climate-technology company said the Netzence Energy Theft Monitoring Device, known as NETMoD, is designed to sit at strategic points on distribution networks, collect electrical data continuously and alert authorised utility teams when it detects abnormal patterns requiring investigation.
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