EDL revenue, cost, loss, collection and service-recovery measures.
Why it matters
It informs revenue adequacy, affordability, collection risk, investment capacity and the economic assumptions of public-grid rehabilitation.
Core provisions
The operative ideas to understand before reading the full text.
- 01
Links tariff revenue, billing and collection to operating and supply costs.
- 02
Addresses technical and non-technical losses and utility-management improvements.
- 03
Provides financial assumptions relevant to the World Bank-supported system-reinforcement programme.
Engineering lens
- Service improvement depends on fuel, plant and network availability.
- Loss KPIs require metered energy and network segmentation.
Economic and investment lens
- Tests tariff adequacy, collection and operating-cost coverage.
- Affordability and service quality constrain recovery.
From text to operation
Implementation gates
These conditions must be evidenced before treating the instrument as operational for a project, tariff or market transaction.
- 1Reliable billing and metering
- 2Loss-reduction investment and enforcement
- 3Transparent KPI and financial reporting
Documented relationships
- This instrument sets utility-recovery assumptions supporting LRESRP
Primary sources
- Cost Recovery Plan Addendum Électricité du Liban · Published · English · Accessed 16 August 2026
- Lebanon Renewable Energy and System Reinforcement Project World Bank · Published · English · Accessed 16 August 2026