Customers get control over their electricity bills

What Net Metering does is that it gives customers an opportunity to generate clean and efficient electricity. During sunlight hours, most solar customers produce more than they can consume – this surplus is exported to the grid reducing electricity bills.

Value Addition to Society & Boosting Private Investment

1. Value addition to DISCOMs : One of the biggest advantages of Net Metering is that it helps trim peak load demand during the day and reduces load shedding. Further it helps State DISCOMS reduce their T&C wheeling losses. 2. Value addition to end-users: Net Metering helps corporates, industrial establishments and educational research institutes save money on electricity bills. The money saved can be invested into in their existing business or can be used to improve educational infrastructure in universities and schools.

Saves on Expensive Batteries

In Net Metering, the grid acts as a huge ‘bank’ and ‘stores’ your extra solar power for times when you don’t have enough. This eliminates the need for an expensive battery bank. A small battery backup system should be sufficient for power outages.

The major components you need for a grid-tied net metering system are solar modules, that produce power and an inverter that converts the DC power from the solar panels to the standard AC power produced by the utility. Both these components require little maintenance because there are no moving parts. Modules have a long warranty and are manufactured from a semiconductor material that is usually protected by a tempered glass front.

Net metering records the energy generated and sent to the grid and consumed from the grid, providing vital data. Your electricity bill is the net difference of the two, accounting for any time of use plans you might select and other charges.

As solar energy systems are connected to the state’s distribution system, the demand for electricity generated by traditional methods will reduce – thus preserving the environment.

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GEDA (Gujarat Energy Development Agency), one of the premier organizations and a forerunner in India has been working in the field of renewable energy development and energy conservation. GEDA is shouldering the responsibility of a state nodal agency (SNA) for the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Sources (MoNRE) and the state designated agency (SDA) for Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE).

GEDA has played a pioneering role in the development of a long-term renewable policy and implementing of sustainable energy programmes across the state. GEDA’s challenge has been to make the renewable energy and energy efficient technologies economically and commercially viable. GEDA was catalytic in the formation of the Commission of Additional Sources of Energy (CASE) in 1981, which later became the Department of Non-conventional Energy Sources (DNES) in 1982 and a full-fledged Ministry- MNES (Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources) in 90s, which is now the MNRE (Ministry of New and Renewable Energy). The model was then replicated to establish similar state nodal agencies in other states through out the country.

The renewable energy promotion and popularization programmes in the state have crossed the over 3 decades of untiring efforts and pioneered several sustainable initiatives; many of which are the country’s first. GEDA has virtually been the crucible, the melting pot of ideas to ‘check out’ renewable sources of energy as alternatives to conventional fuels. The convenient green-n-clean actions in these direction and milestones achieved have set the pace for Renewable Energy Development in India.

Net Metering Policy

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We live in an age where people across the world are becoming increasingly conscious of the environment. Governments are urging and incentivizing companies and citizens to embrace renewable sources of energy. As more and more people are deciding to go green, there are a few terms that have crept into our lexicon. One of them is Net Metering.

Net Metering is a system that gives solar energy owners credits for the power that they add to the grid. When solar panels produce excess power, that power is sent to the grid. And this power can be ‘taken back’ when the solar plants are not functioning – example, during the night. When a unit of solar energy that has been ‘net metered’, the bi-directional electricity meter will run backwards. Customers are billed only for the ‘net’ energy use.

The solar power systems are connected to the utility grid via the customers’ main service panel and meter and, when generating more power than is needed at the site, return excess electricity to the grid through the power meter, reversing the meter from its usual direction. Thus, a bi-directional meter is needed to avail net metering. Since the meter works in both directions (i.e. bi-directional meter)– one way to measure power purchased (when on-site demand is greater than on-site power production), and the other way to measure power returned to the grid – the customer pays the “net” of both transactions.

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State Level Net Metering Data

States	Year of Release of Net Metering policies	Gross / Net Metering	Specifications on capacity			Specifications for grid integration (electricity or power)
States	Year of Release of Net Metering policies	Range allowed	Max. capacity w.r.t sanctioned load	Limitations on transformer capacity	Export of electricity allowed when compared to consumption	Billing period for settlement	Compensation period for surplus
Maharashtra	2015	Net	1 kW–1 MW	100%	40%	Above 100%	Monthly	Yearly
Uttar Pradesh*	2019	Both	1 kW–1 MW	100%	25%	Above 100%	Monthly	Yearly
Rajasthan	2015	Net	1 kW–1 MW	80%	30%	Above 100%	Monthly	Yearly
Karnataka	2016	Both	1 kW–1 MW	100%	80%	Above 100%	Monthly	Monthly
Haryana	2016	Both	1 kW–1 MW	100%	30 % for LT and 15% for HT	Above 90%	Monthly	Yearly
Tamil Nadu	2019	Net	Consumers under Low Tension category except Hut and Agricultural category of tariff – Not sure	100%	90%	90%	Bi-monthly	Yearly
Delhi	2014	Net	1 kW – NA; for group / virtual metering 5 kW – 5 MW	100%	20%	Above 100%	Monthly	Yearly
Telangana	2016	Both	1 kW–1 MW	Residential: 100% Others: 80%	80%	Above 100%	Monthly	Half-yearly
Gujarat	2016	Both	1 kW–1 MW	Residential- Above 100%; Non- residential 50 % (for initial two years)	65%	Above 100%	Monthly	Yearly
Andhra Pradesh	2015	Both	1 kW–1 MW	100%	80%	Above 100%	Monthly	Quarterly
West Bengal	2013	Net	5 kW–not specified	NA	NA	90%	Monthly	Yearly
UTs – Andaman & Nicobar, Chandigarh, Dadar and Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu, Lakshadweep, Puducherry	2019	Both	NA–500 kWp; for group/ virtual net metering 5 kWp–NA	100%	75%	Above 100%	Monthly	Yearly
Madhya Pradesh	2015	Net	NA–1 MW	100%	30%, as per amendment in 2017	Above 100%	Monthly	Yearly
Punjab	2015	Net	1 kW–1 MW	80%	30%	90%	Monthly	Yearly
Jammu and Kashmir	2015	Net	1 kW–1 MW	50%	20%	90%	Monthly	Yearly
Orissa	Amended in 2018	Net	Up to sanctioned load	100%	75%	90%	Monthly	Yearly
Kerala	2014	Net	1 kW–1 MW	NA	80%	Above 100%	Monthly	Yearly
Assam	2015	Both	1 kW–1 MW	80%	20%	90%	Monthly	Yearly
Jharkhand	2015	Both	1 kW–1 MW	100%	100%	Above 100%	Monthly	Yearly

* The applicable rate will be 30 % of the weighted APPC rate at which the DISCOM has purchased power from the ground mounted solar PV plant up to 5 MW capacity Source: Centre for Energy Finance, Individual DISCOM websites Disclaimer: The information presented above is for educational purposes only. All the data provided in the table above are approximate values derived from third party sources, research articles or on ground experience and Lobel Power would take no responsibility or have any obligation over the correctness of data. The regulatory policies get updated from time to time and it is highly encouraged that you head over to individual DISCOM sites to refer the latest changes. Acronyms Used:

APPC	Average Power Purchase Cost

While a greener environment is the overall benefit of solar energy, introducing progressive net-metering policies will make the sector grow exponentially. The union government must come up with better ways to implement the policy framework on net-metering so that 40 GW solar target can be reached by 2022.

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Less time collecting water means more time in class. Clean water and proper toilets at school means teenage girls don’t have to stay home for a week out of every month.

Before Natalia’s village had a clean water tap, she often didn’t have time for school. Now, she goes to school every day and she’s the President of her local Water Committee. And she’s just getting started.
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Less time collecting water means more time in class. Clean water and proper toilets at school means teenage girls don’t have to stay home for a week out of every month.

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Multiple Discoms Willing policy

Clean water helps keep kids in school, especially girls.

How do we tackle the water crisis?

General Solar Power Policy

Clean water helps keep kids in school, especially girls.

How do we tackle the water crisis?

Govt. Working Bodies (Nodal Agencies)

Clean water helps keep kids in school, especially girls.

How do we tackle the water crisis?