The Decentralised Grid: How Small Businesses and Estates are Quietly Divorcing the National Grid
Across commercial hubs and gated residential communities in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, and Ibadan, a quiet infrastructure divorce is underway. Commercial clusters, private housing estates, and small manufacturing firms are systematically disconnecting their primary operations from the national grid. Spurred by relentless grid collapses, steep distribution company (DisCo) tariff revisions, and the erratic delivery of…