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Électricité du Liban Cost Recovery Plan Addendum 2025

EDL’s updated financial-recovery framework links tariffs, billing, collections, losses, service improvements and institutional measures to utility sustainability.

Policy
Last reviewed
Scope and applicability

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.

  1. 01

    Links tariff revenue, billing and collection to operating and supply costs.

  2. 02

    Addresses technical and non-technical losses and utility-management improvements.

  3. 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.

  1. 1Reliable billing and metering
  2. 2Loss-reduction investment and enforcement
  3. 3Transparent KPI and financial reporting

Documented relationships

  • This instrument sets utility-recovery assumptions supporting LRESRP

Primary sources

  1. Cost Recovery Plan Addendum Électricité du Liban · Published · English · Accessed 16 August 2026
  2. Lebanon Renewable Energy and System Reinforcement Project World Bank · Published · English · Accessed 16 August 2026