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Defensible loss accounting · est. 2026

Reconciling
the light that
goes unbilled.

Noor Insight is a utility systems and advisory firm for public electricity providers in West Africa. We work alongside utility management and regulators to reconcile billed revenue with collections, producing loss accounting that withstands donor and regulatory scrutiny.

Starting market · Liberia Electricity Corporation

LEC commercial losses
27.5%
from 41.3% · 2022 → late 2024
National access
32.5%
population on grid
Installed capacity
126 MW
LEC network · 2024
Connections
315,691
customer accounts · 2024

Three disciplines, one reporting posture.

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Discipline 01

Reconcile billed revenue with collections, line by line.

Feeder-level reconciliation between the billing ledger and settlement exports. Variance attributed to its cause, dated, and signed off before aggregation to DISCO.

Revenue integrity · 01

Discipline 02

Decompose technical versus commercial losses.

Bulk-supply metering, feeder metering, and customer-meter sampling combined into a single loss account that management, the regulator, and the donor can read at the same time.

Operational visibility · 02

Discipline 03

Publish every figure with its formula and its source.

Reporting packs produced from the operational record, with inline citations, explicit exclusions, and a dated change history so the figure survives audit.

Accountable reporting · 03

Starting market · 01

Liberia Electricity Corporation.

We begin with a single utility, in a single country, under the supervision of a single regulator. The engagement is phased, procurement-aligned, and designed to be defensible before the Ministry of Finance, the Liberia Electricity Regulatory Commission, and the donor programmes already funding the sector.

The work amplifies the utility's own commercial and engineering teams. It does not replace them. Our role is to make the decisions they are already making more traceable, and the reporting they already produce more defensible.

Engagement posture

Counterparty
LEC management and board
Regulator
Liberia Electricity Regulatory Commission (LERC)
Ministries
Mines & Energy · Finance & Development Planning
Donor programs
MCC · World Bank · EU · AfDB · USAID
Phasing
Diagnostic → reconciliation → attested reporting
First phase
18 months

Founding team

Built by two practitioners.

Noor Insight is co-founded by a power-sector analyst and a public-sector delivery operator. Both founders are named; both bios are published.

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Founder

Mahmoud Mobir

Senior Analyst, Rhodium Group · Energy & Climate

Leads the firm's global analysis of the electric power transition and maintains Rhodium's Global Energy Model. Prior: GRTgaz (European energy-system modelling); Schneider Electric (grid reliability research). École des Mines, Paris · INP Toulouse.

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Founder

Mohammed Soumaoro

Co-founder, Neldon · Former Ministry of Health, Liberia

Public-sector delivery and software for African markets. Co-founded Neldon (software for African markets); programme officer at Liberia's Ministry of Health; member operations at BioForward. M.S., Social Policy & Data Analytics, University of Pennsylvania; B.A., African Leadership University. Diana Award for social impact.

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Methodology

We do not produce insights. We produce numbers that hold up under cross-examination — by the regulator, by the auditor, by the donor. Everything else follows.

— Noor reconciliation protocol, § 1.2
  1. 01

    Ingest, without reshape

    Raw billing, metering, and settlement exports are preserved byte-for-byte. Every derived figure traces back to a source line with a reference id.

  2. 02

    Reconcile at the feeder

    Billed revenue is reconciled against collections at the feeder level before aggregation to the utility. Variance is attributed to its cause, not averaged away.

  3. 03

    Decompose losses

    Technical and commercial components are attributed using feeder metering, bulk-supply metering, and customer-meter sampling — with the gaps named rather than papered over.

  4. 04

    Publish with footnotes

    Every figure is published with its formula, its source, and the specific exclusions applied. Change history is preserved, not overwritten.

Next step

Request a structured briefing.

Briefings run forty-five minutes and are delivered under NDA to named counterparties at utilities, regulators, ministries, and donor programmes. Sources are attested on request.