The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has issued simplified procedure for the residential consumers to get the rooftop solar (RTS) plant installed by themselves or through any vendor of their choice under the Rooftop Solar Programme.
Salient features
- A national portal for registering applications from the beneficiary, approval thereof and tracking progress will be developed.
- After obtaining technical feasibility, the beneficiary will install the RTS plant from any vendor of his choice.
- The beneficiary has to install its plant within a specified period otherwise his application will be cancelled and he has to re-apply for installation of RTS plant.
- Upon installation of RTS plant, the beneficiary will apply for net-metering on the national portal, which will be forwarded online to the concerned DISCOM.
- On receiving the inspection report, the subsidy will be released directly in the bank account of the beneficiary by the DISCOM.
- Authentic information in this regard is made available on the official website of Ministry or on SPIN portal.
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