Society solar that survives the AGM.
The economics of common-area solar are usually excellent. What kills society projects is process: incomparable vendor pitches, unanswered committee questions, and nobody accountable after handover. We run the whole thing — subsidy track, structural checks, one clean tender, and documents your general body can vote on.
Walk any large society’s accounts and the common-area electricity bill is sitting near the top: lifts running all day, water pumps on schedule, corridors lit all night. That load has two convenient properties — it is predictable, and much of it runs in daylight. A terrace solar plant sized against it cuts the CAM bill permanently, and under PM Surya Ghar’s Group Housing Society track, the central subsidy applies to exactly this kind of installation.
The obstacle is rarely money; it is decision-making. A society purchase needs a committee to sponsor it, a general body to approve it, and a paper trail that protects everyone who signed. Vendors pitch committees one at a time, each with different assumptions, and the discussion collapses into scepticism. The projects that succeed all share one feature: someone converted the noise into a single structured comparison — same specifications, same warranty definitions, same savings math — that a general body could evaluate in one sitting.
That is what we do. We assess the terrace (structure, waterproofing, shading, usable area), verify the subsidy position for your connection, run one tender across vetted installers, and present the committee a decision pack: costs, net-of-subsidy outlay, conservative savings projections, and the vendor comparison with our recommendation and reasoning. After the vote, we manage the DISCOM process and set up O&M so the system outlives every future committee handover.
From first committee meeting to running plant.
- Feasibility & terrace assessment
- Usable terrace area net of tanks and shading, structural adequacy, waterproofing status, and the common-connection load profile — the facts the committee needs before anyone talks price.
- Subsidy-track mapping
- The GHS/RWA CFA computation for your specific configuration — per-kW amounts, per-house caps, and what the society's net outlay actually is after subsidy.
- One structured tender
- A single specification issued to vetted installers, so the bids that come back are comparable by construction. No more apples-versus-oranges vendor pitches.
- The AGM decision pack
- Costs, savings modelled conservatively, payback range, vendor comparison and recommendation — written for members to read, question and vote on.
- DISCOM & portal management
- Application in the society's name, feasibility, net metering, inspection and commissioning — chased by us, reported to the committee at each stage.
- Continuity-proof O&M
- AMC, monitoring access and warranties documented in the society's name with a handover pack, so the plant keeps performing when the committee changes.
Three committees we help most.
The exploring committee
A member has proposed solar and the committee needs facts before the next meeting. Our feasibility note — terrace, subsidy, indicative economics — is exactly that first document.
The quote-drowned committee
Three vendors, three pitches, no way to compare. We restate everything against one specification and give the general body a comparison it can actually decide on.
The burnt-before society
An earlier system underperforms or the vendor vanished. We audit what exists, recover what's recoverable under warranty, and put monitoring and a real AMC in place.
What we’ll tell your committee upfront.
- If the terrace doesn’t work, we say so. Heavy shading, structural doubts or too little usable area are disqualifying facts, and hearing them early is cheaper than discovering them after a vote.
- Savings are modelled conservatively. Our projections use realistic generation and your actual tariff — a proposal that survives the sharpest member’s scrutiny at the AGM is worth more than a flattering one.
- The society contracts the installer directly. We advise, tender and manage; the installation contract, warranties and AMC are in the society’s name. Our independence is the point.
Where to go next
Society solar: clear answers.
- Yes. Group Housing Societies and Resident Welfare Associations have a dedicated CFA track under PM Surya Ghar for common-area installations — lifts, water pumps, common lighting — computed per kW with per-house caps. The application is made in the society's name through the national portal against the society's common-connection details.
- The common-area maintenance (CAM) electricity bill — typically the society's largest controllable expense after staff. Lifts, pumps, corridor and compound lighting run on the common connection; solar on the terrace offsets that bill directly, and every member's maintenance contribution benefits proportionally.
- In practice: a managing-committee resolution to explore and tender, then general-body (AGM/SGM) approval for the capital expenditure per the society's bye-laws, and documented terrace-use consent. We prepare the proposal pack — costs, subsidy, savings, vendor comparison — in the format a general body can actually vote on.
- Sometimes, but it's structurally harder: the terrace is common property, so individual systems need society consent and workable metering per flat. Where several residents want in, a common-area system (or a jointly structured shared system) usually delivers more value with less conflict. We'll tell you honestly which fits your building.
- That's the risk we design against. The O&M contract, monitoring access and warranty documents are executed in the society's name — not a committee member's — with an AMC scoped in writing. Handover packs mean the next committee inherits a running asset, not a mystery.