What the Generator Should Cost

What your monthly generator bill should be at the ministry's official maximum for the mountains — read from the ministry's own table each time, and a check against what your operator charges.

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What your bill should be

Official maximum for September 2026

LBP 12,009,800

$134.19 at the official rate

a month

Subscription: LBP 385,000
Usage (200 kWh): LBP 11,624,800
Total: LBP 12,009,800

In fresh dollars, at the official exchange rate.

This is the legal maximum the Ministry of Energy and Water set for September 2026. The tariff changes every month with diesel prices — check the latest below.

Read from the Ministry of Energy and Water’s own tariff table, published 1 October 2026. Set from this month’s diesel price of LBP 2,675,217 per 20 litres.

Read from the Ministry of Energy and Water's own tariff table.

Worth knowing

The official tariff is a ceiling, not a fixed price

Each month the ministry publishes the most a generator may charge per kilowatt-hour, tied to the price of diesel, plus the fixed monthly fee for your amperage. An operator may charge less than the ceiling; charging more is against the rules. Generators above 700 metres, or in rural areas, are allowed to add 10% — which is every address in this village.

Source: Ministry of Energy and Water, monthly private-generator tariff (تسعير المولدات), checked 6 August 2026 (2 months ago).

Operators are meant to bill by the meter

After thousands of complaints, the 2025 crackdown on generator overcharging requires operators to install a meter for each subscriber and bill by the kilowatt-hour rather than a flat guess. If your operator has not installed a meter, that is part of what the rules were meant to fix.

Source: The National — Lebanon cracks down on generator overcharging, checked 18 June 2026 (3 months ago).

Where the number on this page comes from

It is read from the ministry's own tariff table each time this page is built, so it follows the ministry rather than waiting for anyone to retype it. The date the ministry issued it is printed above. The new month's figure usually reaches the press a few days before it reaches that table — the links below are where to look in the meantime.