TESCO Bill Check Online 2026

What TESCO covers

TESCO serves the merged tribal districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Khyber, Kurram, Bajaur, Mohmand, Orakzai, North Waziristan and South Waziristan, together with the frontier regions attached to them. These are the districts that until 2018 were the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, and their merger into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa changed their administrative status without changing the physical difficulty of serving them.

The terrain is mountainous throughout and much of it is close to the Afghan border. Distribution here means long spans over steep ground, difficult access for construction and maintenance, and a settlement pattern of dispersed villages rather than towns. The cost of serving each consumer is correspondingly high and the network is thinner than in the settled districts next door.

Much of the infrastructure is also comparatively recent, because significant parts of the network were damaged or destroyed during years of conflict and displacement and have been rebuilt since. That gives TESCO an unusual profile: newer equipment in some areas, long-neglected sections in others, and a consumer base whose relationship with metering and billing has been rebuilt alongside the lines.

How TESCO came about

TESCO was established to serve the tribal areas as a distribution company separate from PESCO, which had previously covered them as part of its Peshawar territory. The tribal districts were merged into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in 2018, ending their separate administrative status, but TESCO has continued as the distribution company for them.

• Incorporated: 3 July 2002, certificate of incorporation L-12028 of 2002-2003, taking over the tribal-area network from PESCO. Its distribution licence was granted on 12 August 2013. (TESCO’s own Business Plan gives 2 July 2004; the licence is the stronger source.)
• Consumers: About 0.443 million, of which roughly 90.56% are domestic, 6.67% commercial and 0.97% industrial — per TESCO’s Business Plan 2025-26 to 2029-30 filed with NEPRA in November 2024. That is the highest domestic share of any distribution company in the country.

Reading a TESCO bill

TESCO bills use the standard PITC layout, with the reference number at the top-left beneath the consumer name and address and the readings panel showing previous and current meter readings alongside the units billed.

Because much of the network is comparatively new or recently restored, connection and metering records in some areas are more recent than the connections themselves. If the name, address or tariff category on your bill does not match the connection as it exists now, it is worth correcting at the local office rather than ignoring — those fields drive where readings are taken and which rate schedule applies.

Paying a TESCO bill

Banking infrastructure across the tribal districts is limited, and mobile wallet agents — JazzCash and Easypaisa — carry most of the practical payment load. In the district headquarters there are branches and counters; in the smaller valleys there frequently are not, and the nearest payment point may be a considerable journey.

Allow extra time before a due date. Counter payments post the same working day where a counter is available; wallet payments generally reflect within one to two working days.

Outages and load management on TESCO

Terrain and weather drive most outages. Long spans over steep, unstable ground are exposed to landslides, snow loading and wind, and reaching a fault can require a substantial journey on difficult roads. Winter in the higher valleys is the hardest period, as it is across the northern KP districts generally.

Access rather than repair is usually the binding constraint. Once a crew reaches a fault the work is ordinary; getting there is what determines how long the outage lasts.

• Where the schedule is published: TESCO does not publish a load-management schedule at a public URL we could verify.