MEPCO • Multan regionMEPCO Bill Check Online 2026
MEPCO has more consumers than any other distribution company in Pakistan, spread across thirteen districts of south Punjab — and a farming load that makes its demand curve look unlike any urban DISCO's.
Last updated: 2026-08-16
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Districts and towns MEPCO serves7
MEPCO distributes across south Punjab, including:
What MEPCO covers
MEPCO's territory runs from Sahiwal in the north-east down to Rahim Yar Khan on the Sindh border and west to Dera Ghazi Khan against the Balochistan frontier — thirteen districts in all, including Multan, Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar, Vehari, Khanewal, Lodhran, Muzaffargarh and Pakpattan. It is the largest distribution company in the country measured by number of consumers.
What shapes the network is agriculture. South Punjab is dominated by irrigated farming, and agricultural tubewell connections form a far larger share of MEPCO's load than they do for LESCO or IESCO. Tubewell demand is seasonal and concentrated: it climbs sharply through the sowing and irrigation months and falls away afterwards, which gives MEPCO a very different annual demand curve from a city network.
The distances are also real. A single MEPCO circle can span an area that would contain several LESCO circles, and long rural feeders mean more line length per consumer, higher technical losses and longer restoration times for a fault at the far end of a feeder.
How MEPCO came about
MEPCO was incorporated on 14 May 1998 (certificate L09522), and granted its first distribution licence on 25 April 2002, out of WAPDA's Multan Area Electricity Board when the power wing was unbundled into separate distribution companies. Its scale is the notable thing: covering thirteen districts, it serves more consumers than any other distribution company in Pakistan, which makes its performance figures disproportionately important to the national picture.
- Consumers: 7.358 million, per MEPCO’s NEPRA distribution licence (submission 21 January 2022, determined 9 May 2023) — the largest consumer base of any distribution company in Pakistan.
Reading a MEPCO bill
MEPCO bills use the standard PITC layout — reference number top-left, readings panel with previous and current meter readings, charges down the right ending in the two totals.
On an agricultural connection the tariff code in the header is the line to check first: agricultural tariffs are structured differently from domestic ones, and a connection billed on the wrong category is the most consequential error that can appear on a MEPCO bill. If the tariff code does not match how the connection is actually used, raise it with the circle office rather than treating it as a reading dispute.
Paying a MEPCO bill
In the district towns every normal channel works — JazzCash, Easypaisa, bank apps, ATMs and counter payment. Further out, mobile wallets do more work than bank branches simply because agent coverage reaches further than branch coverage across rural south Punjab, and an Easypaisa or JazzCash agent is often the nearest place to pay.
Counter payments post fastest. Wallet and app payments normally reflect within one to two working days, which is worth remembering near a due date if you are paying from a village agent rather than a branch.
Outages and load management on MEPCO
MEPCO's outage profile is driven by feeder length and by the irrigation season. During peak tubewell months a rural feeder can be loaded close to its limit through the day, and faults cluster accordingly. Restoration on a long rural feeder is slower than in a city because the fault has to be found along tens of kilometres of line before it can be fixed.
Dust storms and pre-monsoon winds are a second recurring cause across the southern districts, bringing down conductors and cross-arms in a way that is genuinely weather-driven rather than a capacity problem.
- Where the schedule is published: MEPCO publishes it at mepco.com.pk/load-shedding-schedule-for-consumer/
MEPCO tariff bands
MEPCO does not set your rate — tariffs are notified by NEPRA and applied by every distribution company alike. What MEPCO does is read your meter and bill you in the bands below.
Domestic rates run from Rs 10.54/unit (protected, first 100 units) to Rs 47.20/unit (unprotected, above 700), plus a fixed charge per kilowatt of sanctioned load. The band most households sit in, 101–200 units unprotected, is Rs 28.91/unit.
Crucially, billing is not telescopic: an unprotected consumer pays the rate of the band their month reaches on every unit. See the full schedule, fixed charges and the adjustment in force →
S.R.O. 279(I)/2026 — NEPRA decision of 11 February 2026, effective 2026-02-12. S.R.O. 47(I)/2026 (Schedule of Tariff), as modified by S.R.O. 279(I)/2026 of 12 February 2026
How to complain to MEPCO
MEPCO's territory is too large for one number to be useful, so it publishes contact lists per circle alongside its central complaint cell.
MEPCO head office
MEPCO Head Office, Khanewal Road, Multan — 061-9220095 (PBX 061-9210380-84, fax 061-9220116, rcc@mepco.com.pk).
MEPCO publishes per-circle contact lists as downloadable PDFs for Multan, DG Khan, Vehari, Bahawalpur, Sahiwal, Rahim Yar Khan, Muzaffargarh, Bahawalnagar and Khanewal at mepco.com.pk/contact.
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