Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
Grid Connected Rooftop Solar Programme
Objective
To achieve a cumulative installed capacity of 40,000 MW from Grid Connected Rooftop Solar (RTS) projects.
Salient Features
Central Financial Assistance (CFA)/Subsidy is provided to the residential electricity consumers under Component-A and incentives are provided to DISCOMs under Component-B of this programme.
To avail CFA a residential consumer has to apply for installation of Grid Connected Roof Top Solar (GCRTS) through any of following two mechanisms:
Mechanism-1
- Applicable through National Portal for Roof top Solar
- Applicable CFA under this mechanism is available at the link(19 KB, PDF)
- Applicable CFA will be transferred directly to the consumers account after successful installation (by empanelled vendors) and verification by State DISCOMs
Mechanism-2
- Applicable through State DISCOMs portal
- Applicable CFA under this mechanism is available on page number 4 of the link
- The consumer has to pay only the balance amount after deducting the subsidy/CFA to the bank account of an empanelled vendor after successful installation and verification by the State DISCOMs