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Policy
Aditya Pandey · 12 Aug 2026 · 7 min read Read the story

PM Surya Ghar: what ₹78,000 actually covers

The subsidy is paid on system size, not on your bill. Here is how the slabs work, what lands in your account, and the four documents that hold most ap…

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01 PM Surya Ghar: what ₹78,000 actually covers Policy · 7 min read 02 What a Noida home actually saves in year one Savings · 6 min read 03 Net metering in UP and Delhi, explained Solar 101 · 5 min read 04 Why your tariff keeps rising, and how to step off it Savings · 4 min read
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Savings
What a Noida home actually saves in year one We took twelve months of meter data from a 5 kW rooftop in Sector 78 and put it next to the bill it replaced. NR Neha Rastogi · 05 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
Solar 101
Net metering in UP and Delhi, explained Your meter runs both ways — but the credit rules, settlement dates and load limits differ by state. A plain reading of both. SK Sandeep Kaul · 28 Jul 2026 · 5 min read
Storage
LFP batteries and the Indian summer Cell chemistry decides how a battery ages at 45 °C. Why we specify lithium iron phosphate, and what it costs you to run. MI Meera Iyer · 21 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
Savings
Why your tariff keeps rising, and how to step off it Slab creep, fuel surcharges and fixed charges have moved faster than headline rates for a decade. The arithmetic behind that. NR Neha Rastogi · 14 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
Going solar
From site survey to switch-on in ten days What happens on each of the ten days, who turns up, and the two approvals that decide whether the schedule holds. SK Sandeep Kaul · 07 Jul 2026 · 5 min read
Solar 101
What 3 kW really powers in a Delhi home Two ACs and a fridge, or the whole house? We mapped a real load profile against a real generation curve. AP Aditya Pandey · 30 Jun 2026 · 4 min read
Panels
Mono PERC, TOPCon, bifacial: choosing without the jargon Three technologies, one roof. Where each earns its premium, and where the extra rupee per watt does nothing for you. MI Meera Iyer · 23 Jun 2026 · 8 min read
Storage
Charging by day to run the night Sizing a battery around your evening load instead of your roof — the shift that keeps backup honest. MI Meera Iyer · 16 Jun 2026 · 6 min read
Savings
Payback, without the optimism How we model break-even: degradation, tariff escalation, cleaning, inverter replacement. All of it, on one page. NR Neha Rastogi · 09 Jun 2026 · 5 min read
Going solar
Rooftop solar for housing societies Common-area load is the easy win. Getting 180 flats to agree on it is the actual project. SK Sandeep Kaul · 02 Jun 2026 · 7 min read
Policy
India's 2030 target, read from a rooftop 500 GW of non-fossil capacity is a national number. This is what it looks like distributed across small roofs. AP Aditya Pandey · 26 May 2026 · 6 min read

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