Solar for your home, minus the sales pitch.
You've seen the ads promising free electricity. Here is the grown-up version: a real subsidy worth up to ₹78,000, a system sized to your actual bills, three installers vetted before they quote, and every piece of paperwork handled — with an advisor who answers to you, not to a vendor.
For a homeowner with their own roof, this is the best moment India has ever offered to go solar. The PM Surya Ghar scheme pays ₹30,000 per kW for the first 2 kW and ₹18,000 for the third — up to ₹78,000, straight into your bank account after commissioning. Net metering credits every unit you export. Panel prices are a fraction of what they were a decade ago. For most households, a well-built system pays for itself in a handful of years and then generates essentially free power for twenty more.
So why do so many home solar projects disappoint? Almost never because solar doesn’t work — because the buying process is stacked against a first-time buyer. Quotes arrive in incomparable formats. Systems get sized to the vendor’s margin rather than your consumption. Applications stall on a missing document. And the cheapest bid wins, then disappears when the inverter faults in year three. Every failure mode on that list is preventable — by someone on your side of the table who has run the process many times.
That is the entire service: we check what you qualify for, size the system from twelve months of your bills, put three vetted installers into a like-for-like comparison, and manage the portal application, net metering and inspection until your subsidy lands. You make the decisions; we make sure they’re informed ones. The advice costs you nothing and obliges you to nothing.
Six things we handle for every home.
- Eligibility & subsidy mapping
- Your exact CFA entitlement under PM Surya Ghar, plus any state-level incentive for your city — confirmed against your connection details before anything is filed.
- Honest system sizing
- A load analysis from your last 12 months of bills and your sanctioned load. The output is a number with reasoning attached — not a round figure a salesperson defaulted to.
- Three vetted quotes
- Empanelment checked, installed base verified, component brands and warranty terms in writing — then three bids on identical specifications so the differences actually mean something.
- Portal application, done right
- Registration and filing on pmsuryaghar.gov.in with correct consumer category, load and documents — the errors that cost applicants weeks, avoided the first time.
- Net metering & inspection
- The bidirectional-meter application, DISCOM coordination and commissioning paperwork, followed through until the subsidy is disbursed to your account.
- Post-install setup
- Generation monitoring configured, a cleaning schedule set, and the installer's warranty and AMC terms documented — so year three looks like year one.
Three homeowners we serve best.
The bill-weary household
Monthly bills of ₹3,000+ that spike every summer. Usually the strongest case: high consumption means a 3 kW system (and the full ₹78,000 CFA) does visible work on the bill from the first cycle.
The careful first-timer
You want solar but don't trust the quotes you've collected. Our comparison decodes them line by line — what's genuinely better, what's padding, and what the fair price for your roof looks like.
The stuck applicant
You applied months ago and something — feasibility, the net meter, the subsidy — hasn't moved. We diagnose where the file is stuck and get it moving; it's usually one document, not a rejection.
Three things you won’t get from us.
- Installation itself. We are advisors, not an EPC. Your contract is directly with the installer you choose — which is precisely why our advice on choosing one stays honest.
- "Free electricity" promises. A right-sized system can zero the energy portion of many bills; whether yours gets there depends on your consumption, and we’ll show you the arithmetic rather than the slogan.
- Guaranteed subsidy outcomes. Approvals rest with MNRE and your DISCOM. What we guarantee is a correct, complete, actively-managed application — which is what determines speed in practice.
Where to go next
Home solar: clear answers.
- As a working range, a typical 3 kW residential grid-connected system in India costs roughly ₹1.7–2.2 lakh installed before subsidy, varying by city, components and roof complexity. The PM Surya Ghar CFA of ₹78,000 at 3 kW covers a substantial share of that; your net cost is what a quote comparison is for. Treat any single 'standard price' with suspicion — that's exactly why we obtain three like-for-like bids.
- Size to consumption, not to roof area. A rough rule: every 1 kW generates about 4 units a day on average across the year (more in high-irradiance cities, less in monsoon months). A household using 300 units a month is usually well-served around 2.5–3 kW. We size from your last 12 months of bills and your sanctioned load, then check the roof can carry it.
- Typically 4–10 weeks end to end: portal application and DISCOM feasibility (one to a few weeks), installation itself (2–3 days on most homes), then net-meter installation, inspection and commissioning (a few weeks, varying by DISCOM). The subsidy is credited to your bank account after commissioning. Clean paperwork is the single biggest schedule variable.
- For a grid-connected subsidised system, usually no. Net metering effectively uses the grid as your battery — daytime surplus is exported for credit and drawn back at night. Batteries add meaningful cost and are worth it mainly where outages are frequent and long. The PM Surya Ghar CFA applies to grid-connected systems, not off-grid battery setups.
- Your bill nets exported units against imported ones. If your system generates about as much as you consume, the energy portion of the bill approaches zero (fixed charges remain). Generate less and the bill shrinks proportionally. The honest version depends on your consumption pattern — which is what our sizing analysis shows you before you commit.