Solar subsidy in Gujarat: the rooftop capital.
Gujarat has more residential rooftop solar than any other Indian state — a lead built by the earlier Surya Gujarat programme and carried forward under PM Surya Ghar. Here is what a Gujarat household gets today, and through which DISCOM.
- Central CFA
- Up to ₹78,000 (PM Surya Ghar)
- Legacy
- Surya Gujarat — India's largest state rooftop programme
- DISCOMs
- Torrent Power (Ahmedabad, Surat) · UGVCL, PGVCL, MGVCL, DGVCL
- Standing
- India's #1 state for residential rooftop installations
Administered by MNRE (central CFA) · GEDA (state nodal) · Torrent Power & GUVNL DISCOMs.
How it works in Gujarat actually works.
Gujarat is India's rooftop-solar capital: it accounts for the largest share of the country's residential rooftop installations, a lead built through the state's earlier Surya Gujarat programme, which subsidised hundreds of thousands of home systems years before the national scheme existed. That history matters practically — Gujarat has the country's deepest residential installer base, the most experienced DISCOM processes, and neighbourhoods where rooftop solar is normal rather than novel.
Since PM Surya Ghar launched in February 2024, the central CFA has become the primary subsidy route for Gujarat households — the earlier state-subsidy structure has been effectively subsumed by the national scheme, and applications now run through pmsuryaghar.gov.in like everywhere else, with GEDA (Gujarat Energy Development Agency) as the state nodal agency.
DISCOM geography: Torrent Power serves Ahmedabad and Surat (and Gandhinagar's distribution franchise area), while the four GUVNL distribution companies cover the rest — UGVCL in north Gujarat, PGVCL in Saurashtra and Kutch, MGVCL in central Gujarat and DGVCL in south Gujarat. Gujarat's high solar irradiance — among the best in India — plus this process maturity is why paybacks here are consistently strong.
The subsidy, in numbers.
Residential: the central CFA applies in full — ₹30,000/kW for the first 2 kW, ₹18,000 for the 3rd kW, capped at ₹78,000 — and is now the primary subsidy for Gujarat households; the earlier Surya Gujarat state-subsidy percentages no longer operate as a separate stack under the national scheme. Net metering credits exported units per GERC regulations. Farmers access PM-KUSUM through GEDA and the DISCOMs (Gujarat also pioneered schemes like SKY — Suryashakti Kisan Yojana — for feeder-level farm solar).
Confirm the current status of any residual/state-specific Gujarat incentive with GEDA before publish — the state programme landscape changed substantially when PM Surya Ghar absorbed the residential-subsidy role.
Some figures above are being verified against current government notifications before we publish exact rates. Talk to us for the latest position.
The process, step by step.
- 01Step
Apply on pmsuryaghar.gov.in
Select Gujarat and your DISCOM — Torrent Power in Ahmedabad/Surat, or UGVCL, PGVCL, MGVCL, DGVCL by region.
- 02Step
Feasibility approval
The DISCOM validates sanctioned load and feasibility — usually fast in Gujarat given process maturity.
- 03Step
Empanelled-vendor installation
Gujarat's installer base is India's deepest for residential systems; empanelment status and component standards still need checking per vendor.
- 04Step
Net meter, inspection, subsidy
Bidirectional metering, inspection, portal commissioning and CFA disbursal to your bank account.
Eligibility, plainly.
- Residential consumers of Torrent Power or the GUVNL DISCOMs (UGVCL, PGVCL, MGVCL, DGVCL) with roof access/consent.
- Grid-connected systems via empanelled vendors (central-scheme conditions apply).
- C&I consumers per GERC net-metering regulations for their size class.
- Farmers per Gujarat's PM-KUSUM / GEDA implementation windows.
Where this scheme meets our work.
Gujarat: clear answers.
- The Surya Gujarat programme built Gujarat's rooftop lead by subsidising home systems at the state level, but since PM Surya Ghar launched in February 2024 the central CFA (up to ₹78,000) has become the primary subsidy route for Gujarat households — applications run through pmsuryaghar.gov.in. Check with GEDA for the current status of any residual state incentive.
- Torrent Power serves Ahmedabad and Surat. Elsewhere it is the GUVNL distribution companies: UGVCL in north Gujarat, PGVCL in Saurashtra and Kutch, MGVCL in central Gujarat, and DGVCL in south Gujarat. Your electricity bill names your DISCOM, and the national portal routes your application to it automatically.
- Three reasons: solar irradiance among the best in India (more units per installed kW), the country's most mature residential installation and DISCOM processes (less friction and delay), and competitive installer pricing from the deepest vendor base. With the central CFA covering a large share of a 2–3 kW system, paybacks are consistently among India's shortest.
- Suryashakti Kisan Yojana (SKY) was Gujarat's pioneering programme for solarising agricultural feeders — farmers generated solar power for their own pumps and sold surplus to the grid. Its approach fed into the national PM-KUSUM design; today farm-solar applications in Gujarat run through the state's PM-KUSUM implementation via GEDA and the DISCOMs.