On October 1, 2026, Ikeja Electric reorganised its distribution franchise from six Business Units to five.
The Abule Egba Business Unit was dissolved and its service areas were absorbed by its neighbours —
every transformer, Undertaking, and boundary reassigned, checked, and redrawn.
2,717 transformers changed Business Unit. 54 Undertakings became 38. And every one of the 20,789 transformers now has a clear home.
The realignment at a glance
On October 1, 2026, Ikeja Electric collapsed six Business Units into five clearer territories so field crews, planners,
and customer operations share one spatial truth. Every figure below is computed from the same DT register
and polygon layers that power the live Operational Dashboard and Dashboard Summary — no invented metrics.
Read this chapter as an executive briefing: the franchise footprint, the asset base, and the MV corridors that
bind them. The map and charts are interactive — click a Business Unit slice or bar to push the same filter into
Operational Dashboard and Dashboard Summary.
Context — One franchise map, one register, one feeder network view for Ikeja Electric 2026.
What changed — Six BUs became five; Undertakings consolidated from 54 to 38 with auditable lineage.
How to interpret — DT totals and feeder counts are register-backed; agreement scores measure spatial fit.
Insight — Ikeja and Akowonjo absorb the heaviest urban load; Ikorodu dominates territory by area.
One franchise map
Lagos State context, five 2026 BU fills, Undertakings, feeders, DTs, ISS and TCN on hybrid satellite — use Filter Layers in the map title bar.
One asset register
20,789 distribution transformers tagged to 2026 BU / UT with public vs private ownership symbology.
One MV network view
418 feeders (11 kV electric aqua / 33 kV signal yellow) animated as a live corridor layer with length and DT load metrics.
Franchise overview
Before and after
Before October 1, 2026 the franchise ran six Business Units and 54 Undertakings. On October 1, 2026 the realignment dissolved Abule Egba,
absorbed its service areas into neighbouring BUs (chiefly Ikeja and Akowonjo), and consolidated Oshodi and Shomolu
from 11 Undertakings each down to 6 — producing five contiguous 2026 territories and 38 Undertakings.
Context — Legacy six-BU geography created overlapping operational hand-offs at Abule Egba’s edges.
What changed — 2,717 transformers changed Business Unit; UT history fields preserve pre-2026 ancestry.
How to interpret — Bars compare structure counts, not customer accounts; focus on organisational geometry.
Insight — Consolidation reduced UT count while Ikeja grew capacity (8 → 10 UTs) as the urban core.
Before / after map
2,717 DTs moved BU
13.1% of the network changed Business Unit assignment during the cut-over.
54 → 38 UTs
Undertakings consolidated for operational clarity while Ikeja grew from 8 to 10 UTs.
6 → 5 Business Units
Abule Egba retired; every former polygon lineage remains auditable in the UT history fields.
Click a BU on the map or charts to filter the Operational Dashboard to that territory.
The five Business Units
Each 2026 Business Unit has a distinct spatial personality — dense urban cores, wide coastal territories,
and mixed ownership profiles. Open a card to filter dashboards to that BU; labels appear on the map as you zoom.
Ikeja / Akowonjo — Largest DT bases and ten Undertakings each; primary urban workload.
Oshodi — Consolidated UT set with near-even public/private transformer mix.
Shomolu — Densest BU by transformers per km²; short travel between assets.
Workload across the new BUs
Workload is read from the operational DT register: public vs private counts, transformers per square kilometre,
and feeder corridors that carry that load. Click any bar or table row to focus the map and KPI filters.
Context — Public vs private ownership shapes field response and customer-side coordination.
What the chart shows — Stacked DT load by BU, density (DTs/km²), and ownership split.
How to interpret — High density implies compact urban ops; high area with lower density implies longer corridors.
Insight — Use the table to jump straight into Operational Dashboard filters for the heaviest Undertakings.
BU
UTs
DTs
Area km²
DTs / km²
How we know it’s right
Quality is measured as register-to-polygon agreement: for each 2026 Undertaking, what share of transformers
inside the boundary carry a matching 2026 UT assignment. Every UT clears 90%; most sit above 97%.
Hybrid imagery, feeder fidelity, and ownership splits close the loop between map and register.
Quality map
Spatial truth
BU and UT polygons with Lagos State context on Esri hybrid satellite + labels.
Network truth
11 kV and 33 kV corridors scored for in-own-BU / in-own-UT fidelity.
Asset truth
Capacity bins, ownership, and reassignment analytics from the DT register.
How we did it
The GIS Team assigned each of the 20,789 transformers a 2026 Undertaking and Business Unit, then redrew
boundaries so every Undertaking records which former Undertakings it was formed from — keeping the history
of every boundary auditable. Customer identifiers were excluded from published layers.
Register tag — Each DT receives 2026 BU / UT codes aligned to feeder nomenclature.
Polygon rebuild — Undertaking and Business Unit polygons redrawn to match the tagged register.
Agreement check — Spatial join of DTs to polygons; score agreement and resolve outliers.
Network overlay — MV feeders attributed to 2026 BUs with length and DT load.
Publish — Dashboards, story map, and exports share one curated JSON / GeoJSON package.
Tools
QGIS / ArcGIS Pro for geometry · curated JSON for the Vercel dashboard · Leaflet + Chart.js for the story.
Governance
Lineage fields on UTs preserve pre-2026 ancestry for audit and field briefings.
Privacy
No customer account identifiers in published map or analytics layers.
Live industry pulse
Focused on electricity, Federal Government power-sector policy, AI/ML for Nigerian DisCos, GIS, and GeoAI.
Click a source tab to filter — the same selection applies on Operational Dashboard and Dashboard Summary.
Explore the data
Jump into the interactive dashboards: multi-select BU / UT / feeder / DT filters, hybrid satellite maps,
clickable charts and tables, dual Excel export, and PDF snapshots. Reset clears focus across views.
Operational Dashboard
KPIs, network geography, DT register analytics, feeder fidelity, and live feeds.
Dashboard Summary
Replica command view with DT density, interactive insight cards, and feeder drill-down.
Export
PDF report of both dashboards, or Excel workbooks for UTs, BUs, feeders, and DTs.
