A Solar Rooftop System Is Where The Solar Panels Are Installed On The Roof Of Any Residential, Commercial, Institutional Or Industrial Building.

This Can Be Of Two Types: (I) Grid Connected Rooftop Solar System With Storage Facility. (Ii) Grid Connected Rooftop Solar System Without Storage Facility.

As Per The Policy, Such Rooftop Systems Can Be Installed At Rooftops Or/And Open Areas On The Land, Building Or Infrastructure Or Part Or Combination Thereof.

The Rooftop Solar Systems From Minimum 1 KWp To 1000 KWp. In Commercial and Industrial for Captive Project you can Install 100% as per Electricity Load. Third Party Sale Project or Sale to DISCOM Up 4MW As Per GoG-Solar Power Policy -2021.

Eligible Consumer” Means A Consumer Of Electricity In The Area Of Supply Of The Distribution Licensee, Who Intends To Use A Rooftop Solar PV System, Given That Such System Is Self Owned, To Offset Part Or All Of The Consumer’s Own Electrical Requirements.

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In Grid Connected Rooftop Or Small Solar Photo Voltaic (SPV) System, The DC Power Generated From SPV Panel Is Converted To AC Power Usingpower Conditioning Unit (Eg. Inverter) And Is Fed To The Grid Either Of 440/220 Volt Three/Single Phase Line Or 33 KV/11kV Three Phase Lines Depending On The Capacity Of The System Installed At Residential, Commercial, Institutional Or Industrial Building And The Regulatory Framework Specified By Respective Authorities. These Systems, Generate Power During The Day Time Which Is Utilized Fully By Powering Captive Loads And Feed Excess Power To The Grid As Long As Grid Is Available. In Case, Where Solar Power Is Not Sufficient Due To Cloud Cover Etc., The Captive Loads Are Served By Drawing Power From The Grid.

Some Solar Rooftop Systems That Have A Battery As Storage Facility.

Such Solar Systems Can ‘’Store’’ Electricity In The Battery And Hence Are Named So.

Government Of Gujarat Has Announced Gujarat Solar Power Policy On 29-Dec-2020 To Facilitate And Promote Solar Power Generation.

Government of Gujarat announced massive changes in the solar policy making it a completely open policy towards solar power generation. The government has removed all bottlenecks and restrictions specifically for the industrial and commercial consumers of the state.

As announced by GOG , the cost of power will come down nearly 50% for the state’s industrial consumer thereby helping them to manufacture products more competitively priced for the international market.

In Nutshell the policy changes are as below.

Power cost of the state will come down drastically. Rs.8/ kwh will come down to Rs. 3.45/Kwh

The government of Gujarat goal for 2030 is to have 65.5 GW renewable power capacity increase

With these policy changes, Gujarat will add 30,000 MW by 2025.

This policy will be in effect for the next five year i.e. 2020-2025

All DISCOM and state PPA will be for 25 years

Government has declared changes for the following category RESIDENTIAL ROOFTOP SOLAR PROJECT

no cap on the size of the solar project that can be installed on the Rooftop. The earlier limit was up to the 100% load sanctioned for the residential users.

Now rooftop can be leased and the project can be installed anywhere and power can be self-consumed as well as can be sold

residential Rooftop solar will have no capacity limit. DISCOM will pay 2.25 surplus power for the first 5 years thereafter tariff will be 75% of the average power cost of the last 6 months that came from the power purchase bidding rate of DISCOM.

Residential Rooftop solar will have no banking charges.

but third party solar energy sale for residential rooftop needs to pay Cross subsidy charges as well as all additional surcharges

GROUP CAPTIVE SOLAR PROJECT

first time in INDIA group captive is allowed in Gujarat now. Multiple Smaller industry especially MSME with lower load can get together and implement their own solar power project with no capacity limit. The power generated will be shared and calculated in the same proportions of Equity any industry holds in the joint venture group captive solar company.

COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL SOLAR PROJECT

There will be no cap on the allowed capacity project now. Earlier provision of 50% of the sanctioned load has been removed.

industry now can lease their unused big roof for third-party solar project.

all industries other than MSME, surplus power after self-consumption will get tariff at 75% of the average power cost of last 6 months came from power purchase bidding rate of the DISCOM.

for MSME consumers the surplus power selling rate will be Rs.2.25 for the first 5 years, thereafter MSME consumers will get a tariff at 75% of the average power cost of the last 6 months came from the power purchase bidding rate of the DISCOM.

For Industrial HT consumer solar project generated electricity can be used between 7:00 am to 6:00 pm daily—No banking allowed For demand-based L T consumer banking will be allowed for every billing cycle, can use power daily between 7:00 am to 6:00 pm only. Such consumers must pay power Banking costs at Rs. 1.50/Kwh Regular L T consumers will be allowed to have banking for every billing cycle. They are allowed to use power any time though they must pay power banking charges of Rs. 1.10/Kwh For all Industrial and Commercial solar projects, GUVNL has reduced the project security bank guarantee of 25 lakh/MW to 5 Lakh/MW now.

Besides Government has declared that under small-scale distributed solar policy 2019 for setting up 0.5 MW to 4 MW solar projects has attracted massive response and has received an application of 2300 MW right now for nearly every substation of the state.

This policy will open a huge door for a smaller investments in the solar sector and will have a boom in this sector.

01-Jan-2021 To 31-March-2025

Applicant Can Install A Maximum Of 100 % Of The Existing DISCOM’s Sanctioned Load / Contract Demand.

Conventionally Energy Meter Installed At Customer Premises Register Energy Consumption In One Direction Which Is Energy Injected In To The Customer System. However, In This Case Energy Also Needs To Measure Which Has Been Generated From The Solar System. Hence, Bidirectional Meter Need To Be Installed. With This Bidirectional Meter, Energy Will Be Measured In Both The Direction (A) Energy Injected In To Customer System And (B) Excess Energy (After Captive Consumption) Exported To The TPL Grid. Accordingly, Net Units (A-B) Only Would Be Billed To The Consumer. Such Metering Is Called NET Metering.

Rooftop PV (Photovoltaic) System Residential Or Government Consumers Industrial, Commercial and other consumers Solar Project for captive consumption Solar Project with sale of power to DISOMs Solar Project Under REC mechanism with sale of power to discom at APPC (Avg. Power Purchase cost) Solar Project with sale of power under MSME Unite. Group Captive Solar Project Solar Project with sale of power to third party under open access. Agriculture Solar Pump. Standalone PV system and home lighting system. Canal top and canal bank solar PV project. Technology Demonstration Project. Other Scheme.