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Bill lookup
Type the reference number printed on your last bill and the duplicate opens straight away — MEPCO, LESCO, FESCO, IESCO and every other distribution company. View it, download it, print it, pay from it.
Look at the top-left of any electricity bill you have. The 10–14 digit number printed there — labeled “Reference No.” — is all this site needs. It stays the same even if you change tenants.
Type the reference number into the search box above, then choose your distribution company — MEPCO, LESCO, FESCO, IESCO, or any of the other 11 DISCOs connected to Pakistan's central PITC billing system.
Your official duplicate opens directly from PITC — the same document your DISCO holds. Use it to verify the amount due, check the due date, print it for a bank or landlord, or pay with JazzCash, Easypaisa, or your bank app.
Troubleshooting
Six real causes — not vague advice. Check them in order before calling your DISCO.
NEPRA approves a monthly Fuel Price Adjustment based on what the generators actually spent on fuel. A high FPA month adds a per-unit surcharge to every consumer's bill — your usage may be identical but the total still rises.
Pakistan uses a progressive tariff. Crossing 100, 200, or 300 units moves you into a higher rate band — not just on the extra units, but on all the units in that band. Going from 195 to 210 units in a summer month typically costs far more than 15 extra units suggest.
If a previous bill was only partially paid, or a payment was not posted in time, the outstanding balance appears as arrears on the next bill. The current month's consumption is unchanged — the spike is last month's gap resurfacing.
Consumers who use 200 units or less for six consecutive months are "protected" and pay lower slab rates. Exceeding 200 units in any one of those months removes that status for the next six bills — the difference in rates can be significant.
When a meter reader cannot access a property, DISCOs record an estimated reading. The next physical reading catches up all the uncounted units at once — creating a one-off high bill that is technically correct but feels like a spike.
Air conditioning in summer and water heating in winter are the two biggest seasonal drivers. Running one split AC for an extra 4–6 hours a day through a hot billing cycle can push a household from one slab tier to the next.
Quick answers
Concise, verified answers to the questions Pakistani consumers ask most.
Tariff reference
Pakistan uses a progressive slab tariff set by NEPRA — the per-unit rate rises as monthly consumption increases. Key thresholds every household should know:
| Monthly units (kWh) | Consumer type | Key effect |
|---|---|---|
| 1 – 50 | Protected (lifeline) | Lowest rate, generally FPA-exempt on these units |
| 51 – 100 | Protected | Low rate; slab benefit still applies |
| 101 – 200 | Protected / Unprotected | Crossing 100 units triggers slab benefit removal for unprotected consumers |
| 201 – 300 | Unprotected | Higher per-unit rate; exceeding 200 ends protected status for 6 months |
| 301 – 700 | Unprotected | Progressively higher slab rates; summer AC usage typically lands here |
| 700 + | Unprotected | Highest domestic slab rate applies to all units above threshold |
Exact per-unit rates are set by NEPRA and revised periodically. Check your official duplicate bill for the exact rate applied to your account. Full tariff & slab guide →
Key facts
Step-by-step guide
The 10–14 digit reference number is the only thing this site needs — here's exactly where it sits on the printed bill.
Step-by-step guide
A field-by-field walk-through of your DISCO bill — reference number, units, tariff, due date and how to check it on this site.
Where we stand
Your bill belongs to your distribution company. This site is a shortcut to reading it — nothing more, and we would rather say so plainly than imply otherwise.
The document you see is what PITC returned for your reference number. We do not recompute slabs, restate an amount or adjust a due date — if a figure looks wrong, it is wrong on the official record and belongs with your DISCO.
No sign-up, no password, no subscription that starts free. A reference number and a connection are the whole requirement, on a patchy mobile signal as much as on fibre.
A total on its own explains nothing. FPA, slab boundaries and the payment routes are written up here so you can tell an ordinary month from one worth querying.
How it works
No queue at the subdivision office, no waiting for the paper copy that never arrived.
Same line items, same reference, same amount as the printed original. Print it, or save the PDF for a bank, a landlord or your own records.
The bill scales to the screen instead of making you pinch and drag across a desktop-width page. Nothing to install.
No advertising network, no analytics script, no tracking cookie. The only outside request a page makes is the one that fetches your bill from PITC.
Reading the bill
Nine fields explain almost any total. These are the ones worth checking before you decide a bill is wrong.
The 10–14 digit identifier for your meter, printed top-left. It belongs to the connection, not to you, so it survives a change of tenant.
The two meter figures this bill is calculated from. Their difference, times any multiplier, is your units.
Total kWh for the cycle. This single number decides which slab you land in, so it is the first thing to compare month to month.
Domestic, commercial, industrial or agricultural — and within domestic, protected or unprotected. It sets the rate applied to every unit.
NEPRA's monthly correction for what generation actually cost. It moves independently of your usage and can be a credit.
Government levies stacked on the energy charge: sales tax, the PTV fee, the Financing Cost surcharge and TRS where it applies.
A small fixed charge for the meter hardware. It does not move with consumption — the same figure appears every month.
Anything unpaid from an earlier cycle, carried forward. A sudden jump with flat usage is often this rather than a rate change.
Two figures, not one. The second includes the Late Payment Surcharge and applies the moment the first date passes.
Something here not matching your own bill? Work through the common causes before you queue at the subdivision office.
Once you have the amount
We do not take payments — the reference number is all any of these channels needs.
JazzCash and Easypaisa, in-app or on *786# from a basic handset.
HBL, UBL, Meezan, MCB, Allied and most others carry a bill-payment section.
Bill payment at the ATM menu, or over the counter with cash.
Your own subdivision office and many Pakistan Post branches accept payment.
Keep the transaction ID until the payment shows on next month's bill — it is the only quick proof you have if one goes astray.
Beyond the checker
From rough unit estimates to sector context and troubleshooting—pick the next step that matches your question.
Subsidy
Check eligibility for the protected (lifeline) tariff slab on css.pitc.com.pk and lower your monthly bill — free registration via PITC.
Help
High bills, load errors, missing reference, FPA—practical steps before you call the DISCO.
Tool
Rough PKR estimate from monthly kWh—illustrative slabs, not a substitute for your official bill.
Guide
Generation, DISCOs, NEPRA, and PITC in plain language—how your bill fits the bigger picture.
Solar
Tariffs, net metering, solar plates (panels), commercial rates, savings, and safety—20+ pages.
Reference
Where helplines and complaints live on a real bill—and what belongs to your company, not us.
Simple 4 Steps
Expert Guides
Everything you need to understand, manage, and reduce your electricity bills.
A practical cost and performance comparison of diesel generators, battery UPS systems, and solar inverters for dealing with load shedding in Pakistan.
Many Pakistanis call every electricity company 'WAPDA' — but WAPDA has not billed residential consumers in over two decades. Here is who actually sends your bill and why it matters.
How to cut your electricity bill in winter — geyser habits, heater efficiency, lighting, and the reasons winter bills can still be high in Pakistan.
A step-by-step guide to manually calculating your Pakistani electricity bill — units, slab rates, FPA, GST, and surcharges — so you can verify your bill before paying.
Pakistan's protected electricity tariff gives low-consumption households lower per-unit rates and FPA exemptions. Here is exactly how to qualify, what you get, and what breaks it.
View all guides → · Resources · Problem solving · Bill calculator
FAQ
Quick answers about checking electricity bills in Pakistan.
Enter the 10–14 digit reference number from your last printed bill, choose the company that supplies you — MEPCO for Multan, LESCO for Lahore, and so on — and submit. The duplicate opens from the PITC portal, ready to read, print or save as a PDF. There is no account to create.
Not through PITC, and therefore not here — the lookup is built entirely around that number. You can recover it from any earlier bill, from your DISCO's billing SMS, or by calling customer care and verifying the account. It is 10 to 14 digits, printed under 'Reference No.' or 'Consumer Reference'.
Yes. Once the bill is on screen, print it the way you would any page — Ctrl+P on a computer, or the share/print item in your mobile browser's menu — and choose 'Save as PDF' if you want the file rather than paper.
No. This is an independent tool that fetches your bill from the official PITC portal and shows it unaltered. We are not WAPDA, NEPRA, PITC or any DISCO. Anything touching your actual account — an outage, a disputed amount, a meter that looks wrong — has to go to your distribution company.
Normally a few seconds. The limiting factor is PITC's own server, which gets slow around billing dates. If nothing comes back, re-read the digits against your printed bill before retrying — one wrong figure returns an empty result rather than an error.
All eleven DISCOs on the PITC platform: MEPCO (Multan and south Punjab), LESCO (Lahore), FESCO (Faisalabad), IESCO (Islamabad and Rawalpindi), GEPCO (Gujranwala), PESCO (Peshawar and KPK), HESCO (Hyderabad and lower Sindh), SEPCO (Sukkur and upper Sindh), QESCO (Quetta and Balochistan), TESCO (tribal districts) and HAZECO (Hazara and Abbottabad).
No. K-Electric bills on its own system, entirely separate from PITC, so no reference number entered here would reach it. Karachi consumers use ke.com.pk with their 13-digit consumer number.
Habit, mostly — people call any electricity bill a 'WAPDA bill'. In practice the document is issued by your distribution company: MEPCO, LESCO, FESCO or whichever serves your area. WAPDA sits above them as the parent authority, but the bill is a DISCO document produced through PITC.
The monthly correction NEPRA applies for what generation actually cost — furnace oil, coal, imported LNG. It can add to the bill or, less often, credit it. FPA is the standard reason a bill moves while the units consumed stay flat.
Work through it in order: did the units go up (cooling in summer, heating in winter)? Did consumption cross a slab boundary, so the extra units cost more than the earlier ones? Was FPA positive this month? Are there arrears carried over, or a late surcharge? Comparing the units-consumed and FPA lines against last month's bill settles most cases in a minute.
A stepped price ladder. Each band of monthly units is charged at a higher rate than the band below, so the bill rises faster than consumption does. Staying at or under 200 units keeps a household in the protected, subsidised category — which is why watching your units matters more near a boundary than anywhere else.
They apply only if you have a Time-of-Use meter. On one, roughly 7 PM to 11 PM is charged at the higher rate and everything else at the lower. Running the AC, iron or washing machine outside that window is where TOU consumers save. On a standard meter, timing makes no difference.
Protected means 200 units a month or fewer and NEPRA's subsidised slab rates. Above that you are unprotected and billed at the full rate, and the difference is significant. Your bill states which category applies to you.
No — this site displays bills and does not handle payments. Take the reference number to JazzCash, Easypaisa, your bank app, an ATM or an authorised counter. That number is the only thing any of those channels needs.
Open the app, go to bill payment, select your DISCO, enter the reference number and check the amount against the bill before confirming. Without a smartphone, *786# runs the same flow over USSD. Keep the transaction ID until the payment appears on your next bill.
Both are printed on the bill. The gap between them, adjusted by any meter multiplier, is the units consumed for that cycle. If either figure looks wrong, that is a matter for your DISCO — we show what PITC returns and cannot amend a reading.
The penalty applied once the due date passes. It is why the bill quotes two amounts — one payable in time, a higher one after. Pay against the first and the second never comes into play.
With the bill on screen, open your browser's print dialog (Ctrl+P, or the share menu on a phone) and pick 'Save as PDF' in place of a printer. The file is identical to what PITC produced, which is what banks, landlords and offices are usually asking to see.
Yes — the lookup is the same, provided you have that connection's reference number. What differs is the bill itself: commercial and industrial tariff categories (B-1, B-2, C-1, D-1) carry different rates and tax treatment from a domestic account.
Try in this order: billing SMS from your DISCO, payment receipts in JazzCash or Easypaisa, your bank's transaction history, then the subdivision office. Because the number belongs to the meter, an old receipt from years back is usually still valid.
Monthly for most households, though the cycle can vary by area and account type. The billing month and issue date printed on the statement define exactly what period you are being charged for.
NEPRA is the national electricity regulator. It sets the slab structure and signs off the FPA, TRS and other mandated surcharges that appear on your bill, and it issues quarterly tariff determinations. When the rate changes without your usage changing, a NEPRA decision is usually behind it.
Your DISCO, on the helpline printed on the bill — MEPCO on 080066006, LESCO on 111-000-118, and so on. If the matter stalls there, PMDU and NEPRA's consumer complaint portal are the escalation routes. We have no access to account or metering records and cannot intervene.
The long version
Ten things worth understanding about the document you just opened — where it comes from, what sets the number, and who to go to when it looks wrong.
01
Almost everyone in Pakistan still says WAPDA bill, but the document that lands at your door is issued by a distribution company and generated centrally by PITC, the Power Information Technology Company. That central system is what this page talks to. Put in the reference number and you get the same duplicate bill the counter at your sub-division office would hand over — the real electricity tariff applied to your meter, the arrears if there are any, the FPA for the month and the due date you actually have to meet. A tube-well account and a house in a 5-marla street go through exactly the same lookup.
02
One field does it. The reference number is 10 to 14 digits, printed at the top of any bill you have kept; a few regions print a shorter consumer number beside it. There is no account to open and no password to lose. Once the bill is on screen, your browser's print dialog will save it as a duplicate PDF or push it to a printer, and that copy is what banks — HBL, UBL, Meezan, Allied — post offices and the mobile wallets all work from. Landlords, employers and tax filings generally accept it for the same reason: it is the official document, not a reconstruction.
03
What you pay per unit is set by NEPRA, and it is not one flat number. The tariff is banded: the first units cost less than the last ones, with the breaks that matter falling around 100 and 200 units consumed for domestic accounts. A household that stays at or under 200 units a month is treated as protected and billed at subsidised rates; going over moves you to the unprotected schedule and the jump is bigger than the extra units alone suggest. On top of that, anyone with a TOU smart meter pays more during peak hours in the evening than off-peak. Between the slab structure, the monthly FPA and the quarterly tariff revisions, three separate things can move your bill in a month when your habits have not changed at all.
04
Eleven distribution companies, covering the whole country outside Karachi. In Punjab that is MEPCO (Multan, Bahawalpur, Dera Ghazi Khan), LESCO (Lahore, Kasur, Okara), FESCO (Faisalabad, Sargodha, Jhang), GEPCO (Gujranwala, Sialkot, Gujrat) and IESCO (Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Attock). In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, PESCO (Peshawar, Mardan, Swat), HAZECO across Hazara and TESCO in the tribal districts. Sindh is served by HESCO (Hyderabad, Nawabshah) and SEPCO (Sukkur, Larkana), and Balochistan by QESCO (Quetta, Gwadar, Sibi). Karachi is the exception — K-Electric bills on its own system and cannot be looked up here or anywhere else outside ke.com.pk.
05
Very little of a Pakistani electricity bill is the plain cost of the units. The line that moves most is FPA — Fuel Price Adjustment, sometimes written FCA — which tracks what furnace oil, coal and imported LNG actually cost the generators that month, and which can be a credit as easily as a charge. Around it sit the PTV TV fee, GST as a percentage, the Financing Cost surcharge, meter rent where it applies, and income tax for commercial and industrial accounts. Your duplicate shows all of them broken out, along with the previous and current meter reading, the issue date and the billing month — which is the fastest way to work out whether a surprising total came from your usage or from a policy line.
06
The chain behind the bill is longer than most people need to care about. Generation companies produce the power, the transmission network moves it, the CPPA handles the purchasing arrangements that feed into tariff and adjustment mechanics, NEPRA regulates and sets the rates, and your DISCO delivers the electricity and issues the bill. WAPDA is the older parent name that stuck in everyday speech. It is worth knowing the vocabulary only because tariff notices and news coverage use it — day to day, the job is smaller: find the reference number, check the units, watch the slab, pay before the due date.
07
PITC decides how a web bill renders; we pass your reference through and show the result. Nothing is estimated here — not the unit price, not the slab arithmetic, not the arrears. That matters when the document has to satisfy someone else, because what you print carries the same structure and the same figures as the copy your DISCO holds. It also sets the boundary: if a reading is wrong, we cannot fix it, and the honest answer is to take it to your distribution company rather than to a third-party site.
08
The reference number is the key to every bill check online lookup, and because it belongs to the meter rather than to you, an old receipt from years ago usually still works. Bills also carry the feeder name, the sub-division and the connection type — single-phase or three-phase. Households can mostly ignore the rest and watch kWh and slab tier, especially through the seasonal swings when cooling or heating is running. Commercial and industrial consumers have more to read: maximum demand, power factor, and separate time-of-use registers.
09
Once you have the amount, the reference number is the only thing any payment channel asks for. JazzCash and Easypaisa cover most of the country, including over *786# on a basic handset; NayaPay and SadaPay work the same way; every mainstream banking app has a bill-payment section; and ATMs and post office counters still take cash against the number. Whichever route you use, keep the transaction ID until the payment shows up on the following month's bill — that receipt is the only quick evidence you have if a payment goes astray.
10
If you are on a TOU meter, moving flexible load out of the evening peak hours — water heating, laundry, a second air conditioner — is the cheapest change available, because it costs nothing but attention. Everything else is about reducing baseline units consumed: inverter cooling instead of conventional, LED lighting, and insulation or shading where the heat is actually getting in. The reason it pays to know roughly where your monthly total lands is the slab rate structure — a household hovering just above a boundary gets back more than the units saved, and is far less exposed when FPA rises.
11
People arrive here searching for a MEPCO bill, a LESCO duplicate bill, a FESCO online bill, an IESCO bill check, a PESCO bill by reference number, GEPCO bill online, HAZECO, a HESCO duplicate, a SEPCO bill, QESCO bill check online or a TESCO bill — and behind every one of those phrasings is a single task: retrieve the official duplicate for a valid reference number. The neighbouring questions are just as common. What is the unit rate now, what are the fixed and minimum charges, why did a late payment surcharge appear, when is the load shedding on this feeder, how does net metering paperwork go, is solar worth it at these tariffs. We answer what can be answered accurately — the bill itself, and how tariff, slabs, FPA and peak hours show up on it — and point you at your DISCO for anything that requires access to your account.
That is all it takes. Scroll back up and enter it, or pick your distribution company from the list first.
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CheckBills.net supports all 11 major electricity distribution companies across Pakistan.
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