Where to find your electricity reference number
The 14-digit number printed at the top of every Pakistani electricity bill is the one thing you need to view your bill online, pay through JazzCash / Easypaisa, register a complaint or transfer the connection. Here is exactly where every DISCO prints it, what to do if you have lost the paper bill, and how to sanity-check the number before you type it in.
The one-line answer
On every DISCO paper bill, the reference number is printed at the top-left corner, labelled "Ref No" or "Reference No.". It is always 14 digits, no spaces, no hyphens. Some DISCOs also print a 10-digit "Consumer ID" nearby — either one works on this site.
Per-DISCO layout notes
- MEPCO / LESCO / IESCO / GEPCO / FESCO — top-left, printed in a bold box directly above your name and address.
- PESCO / QESCO — top-left or immediately below the DISCO logo band; sometimes on a slightly darker strip.
- HESCO / SEPCO — top-left, in a narrower box next to consumer details; the account title sits right underneath.
- TESCO — top-left; older bills sometimes label it "Account No" — same 14-digit format, same purpose.
- K-Electric (Karachi) — top-right, labelled "Account #" and formatted as 13 digits with an optional check digit. Enter the account number exactly as printed.
- SNGPL / SSGC gas bills — a different 11-digit consumer number; not accepted as an electricity reference. See our SNGPL guide for gas-side lookups.
How the 14-digit number is structured
The first two digits identify your DISCO. That is how our universal checker routes you to the right feed even when you do not tell it which company issued the bill. Reference:
| DISCO | First 2 digits | Region |
|---|---|---|
| MEPCO | 04xxxxxxxxxxxx | Multan region |
| LESCO | 24xxxxxxxxxxxx | Lahore region |
| IESCO | 26xxxxxxxxxxxx | Islamabad / Rawalpindi |
| GEPCO | 27xxxxxxxxxxxx | Gujranwala region |
| FESCO | 14xxxxxxxxxxxx | Faisalabad region |
| PESCO | 17xxxxxxxxxxxx | Peshawar / KP |
| HESCO | 02xxxxxxxxxxxx | Hyderabad region |
| SEPCO | 38xxxxxxxxxxxx | Sukkur region |
| QESCO | 19xxxxxxxxxxxx | Quetta / Balochistan |
| TESCO | 39xxxxxxxxxxxx | Tribal districts |
Prefixes are illustrative; DISCOs occasionally recycle historical prefixes for new sub-divisions. When in doubt, trust the label on your paper bill.
Don't have the paper bill? Try this order
- Check any digital wallet receipt. JazzCash, Easypaisa, SadaPay, HBL Mobile and every 1LINK bank app store your last bill payments with the reference number printed on each receipt. Search "electricity" in your transaction history.
- Ask a neighbour on the same feeder. DISCOs assign reference numbers roughly sequentially by feeder and sub-division. If your neighbour's ends in 7825, yours is likely a nearby number — not identical, but close enough to spot on a stack of bills.
- Call the DISCO helpline on 118. Have your CNIC and the connection address ready. Verification takes under a minute, and they will read the number back.
- Walk in to the sub-division office. Bring CNIC + address proof (rent agreement, utility bill in old owner's name). They can print a duplicate bill on the spot for Rs. 10–50.
- Contact your landlord. If you moved in recently, the reference number is on every prior bill they paid.
Sanity-checks before you type it in
- Exactly 14 digits. No spaces, no hyphens, no leading 'A' or 'C' characters. Strip everything except digits.
- 0 vs O and 1 vs I. The reference is numeric only. If a character looks like a letter, it is a zero or a one.
- Copy from the paper, not from memory. Even one wrong digit sends you to a completely different account.
- Consumer ID also works. If your bill shows a 10-digit consumer / account ID as well, either one loads the same record on this site.