Apartment communities are one of the best-suited places for roof-top solar installations for two reasons: The availability of shadow-free area is quite high. The consumptions of apartment common area loads are also high. Because of the above two reasons and the increasing tariff from the ESCOM(Electricity Supply Company)s year on year, the solar for [...]
A new policy has been drafted for buildings with multiple BESCOM meters and wants to go for multiple solar PV installations. This allows for installation of multiple solar PV systems in common roof-top area. BESCOM allows options of both net and gross metering with this order depending on how the connections are to be made. [...]
1. Reduce your electricity bill The immediate benefit of it is to drastically reduce your electricity bill to zero or near zero. Solar is a one-time investment with a guaranteed life of 25 years. With the 25 years of Power purchase agreement between you and the state government, while the electricity that you [...]
My colleague always compares Solar PV Rooftop system with the human body, when he is discussing solar energy generation to a person who doesn’t have any technical background. So, it is easy to create a good impact and understanding in the listener. Here is his starting statement, “Solar panel is the heart of the [...]
Solar rooftop and compost at home workshop Generating electricity for household needs is a welcome concept and an answer for today’s electricity shortages from the state grids. We are coming across stories of installing solar on the household roofs. One may be curious how at all these solar panels are installed and how [...]
Bengaluru(Bangalore) Electricity Supply COMpany (BESCOM) had approved two vendors for the supply of Bi-Directional meters in BESCOM jurisdiction for solar rooftop's. Whoever is opting for Solar Rooftop with net metering scheme on their rooftops in Bengaluru and other places under BESCOM will have to buy meters from one of the following two vendors which are [...]
Procedure to obtain BESCOM permissions to install Solar Rooftop Power Plant using Grid connection Initial documents needed to begin the procedure: One photo of the person in whose name the electricity connection is in (Name of the person in Electricity Bill). Latest electricity bill Cancelled cheque (of the account to which any amount to be [...]
Category Description Particulars Existing Tariff as per Tariff Order-2016 Particulars Approved as per Tariff Order 2017 Remarks BJ/KJ Fully subsidized by GOK Free Fully subsidized by GOK Free Fully Subsidized by GoK Monthly Min. per Installation per Month. Rs 30/- Monthly Min. per Installation per Month. Rs 30/- CDT(Commission Determined Tariff) EC per [...]
Till recently the policy in Karnataka for some of the consumers had been Gross metering(GM) and some had Net Metering(NM). A recent circular from BESCOM has given option for some of the consumer segments- residential, hospitals and institutional the option for opting between gross and net metering. So what are the two types of metering? And [...]
Giving the residents of Karnataka a chance to self consume the Solar power they installed. KERC came up with few changes in their existing Solar Power policy for rooftop. The Hon’ble KERC vide order dtd: S/03/1 dtd: 19.09.2016 has issued Modification to the order 02.05.2016 in respect of determination of tariff and other norms for [...]
