Gujarat announces new solar rooftop subsidy for its residential consumers on july 2 2019 the state government of gujarat in its budget announced to launch a new scheme for solar rooftop.
New solar rooftop policy gujarat.
Under the scheme which was earlier administered through geda gujarat energy development agency residents and industries can get a subsidy of 40 percent for rooftop.
The state holds about one fourth or.
At a time when solar rooftop has not really created the sort of impact many experts felt it could comes news of success in gujarat.
While the nation rooftop solar installations as of 31 august stood at 3 088 74 megawatts mw the tally for gujarat stood at 735 18 mw.
This scheme will directly benefit more than 2 lakh families who will adopt solar in the financial year 2019 20.
Gujarat solar policy and it s solar highlights.
The positive development was made public by state s energy.
The state among the top 3 industrialised states in the country with conditions considered ideal for rooftop solar has seen a strong response to its latest rooftop solar policy push.
Gujarat is also a home to charanka solar park that is being constructed on a 2 000 hectare land in norther gujarat encompassing 19 different solar projects.
According to mercom s india solar project tracker gujarat has an installed solar capacity of 2 1 gw with nearly 1 1 gw of solar projects under various stages of development.
An increasing number of states with limited land availability are opting for rooftop solar and have been allocating portions of their budget specifically for the.