PVVNL net metering: application pack

A net-metering application with PVVNL (Paschimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited), the UPPCL distribution company for Noida city, Ghaziabad and western Uttar Pradesh, runs through seven stages, and for a subsidised home system every one of them sits inside your PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana application on the national portal. The rules are UPERC's: under the UPERC rooftop solar regulations of 2019, residential users may choose net or gross metering, and the DISCOM allows capacity within transformer limits.

Use this guide to check you are with PVVNL, prepare your documents and follow the process from application to meter activation. A printable checklist helps you keep each step moving.

Who PVVNL serves, and how to confirm it from your bill

Noida city's licensee is PVVNL (Paschimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited, a UPPCL company). Ghaziabad is on the same board; it is also the name on a Ghaziabad bill. Greater Noida and Greater Noida West are served by NPCL (Noida Power Company Limited), a private licensee with its own portal; Delhi has its own three boards. Check the bill before you apply: choosing NPCL for a Noida-city connection sends the file to the wrong portal.

The bill decides. Read the licensee's name at the top, the consumer number and the sanctioned load in kW; all three go into the application as printed, and the load caps the system PVVNL will connect without a load increase. If the bill is in a parent's name, apply in that name; the subsidy goes to that account.

• PVVNL

  Paschimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited

  Noida city, Ghaziabad and western UP

• NPCL

  Noida Power Company Limited

  Greater Noida and Greater Noida West

The rules PVVNL works under

PVVNL applies UPERC's rooftop solar regulations of 2019 and their amendments. Two points matter to a household. First, under the UPERC rooftop solar regulations of 2019, residential users may choose net or gross metering, and the DISCOM allows capacity within transformer limits, which is why an application for a system larger than the transformer can carry is refused or scaled down. Second, for energy injected beyond what the home consumes, the Third Amendment set compensation at the weighted-average large-solar tariff plus 25% (Third Amendment, in force from July 2025).

A separate net feed-in arrangement exists where the whole export is bought at the large-solar rate plus the incentive; this is more suited to factories and institutions than homes. A home with daytime consumption is better on net metering. UPNEDA is the state nodal agency, and its district solar cells help with installation and net metering, so a district solar cell is the state-side office to escalate a file that stalls.

The application pack

Documents to keep ready

The national portal sets the final list; these are the standard requirements for PVVNL applications.

• Your latest PVVNL bill. Consumer number, sanctioned load and licensee's name must match what you type.
• Proof that you own the house, such as the sale deed or a property tax receipt.
• A photo ID of the applicant, usually Aadhaar, and a passport-size photograph.
• The mobile number linked to the connection. It receives the one-time password and every status message.
• Bank details and a cancelled cheque in the applicant's name, uploaded after the commissioning certificate.

The installer supplies the installation photographs, the module and inverter details and the safety certificate. Keep a dated copy of every upload and a screenshot of each portal status; that record is what you need if a stage sits still.

The seven stages

1. 01

   Confirm the licensee and sanctioned load from your billyou

   PVVNL, the consumer number and the load in kW. A system above the sanctioned load needs a load increase from PVVNL first.
2. 02

   Register and apply on the portalyou, with the installer

   On pmsuryaghar.gov.in choose Uttar Pradesh, then PVVNL, enter the mobile and consumer numbers and verify by one-time password. Then enter the system size, choose the registered vendor and upload the bill and address proof. The application is in your name; a vendor can sit with you.
3. 03

   Feasibility approvalPVVNL

   PVVNL checks the application against its records and the transformer limit. Verde Solaire’s May 2025 guide planned on a few days for a standard domestic connection.
4. 04

   Installation by a registered vendorinstaller

   Panels, inverter, structure, earthing and the protection boxes. The inverter stays off until the meter is fitted, because a one-way meter records nothing for what you export.
5. 05

   Net-meter applicationinstaller

   The vendor uploads the installation photographs, the plant details and the safety certificate and submits the completion. Check that the module and inverter serial numbers uploaded are the ones on your roof.
6. 06

   Inspection and meter installationPVVNL

   PVVNL inspects the plant and fits the bidirectional meter that records import and export separately. The timeline varies; we follow it up for you.
7. 07

   Commissioning and subsidy claimportal, then you

   The commissioning certificate is generated on the portal once the meter is recorded. You submit bank details and a cancelled cheque, and the subsidy is paid to your account.

The scheme's condition on the vendor stage is that the installer must be a vendor registered on the national portal, and you choose the vendor on pmsuryaghar.gov.in. Verde Solaire is a registered PM Surya Ghar vendor in both Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. The nine-step subsidy guide covers the money side; this page stays with the meter.

Timelines: the rule and the practice

PVVNL has not published day counts for feasibility, inspection or meter installation. The 10-day connection rule is a DERC guideline that applies only to Delhi licensees. What we plan on is below.

A slow inspection postpones the subsidy but does not cancel it. Verde Solaire follows the file through the DISCOM and keeps you informed. Customers have reported quick processing when Verde Solaire handled the paperwork and liaison with the board.

Why applications stall

A handful of problems account for most files that stop moving, on any board. None is specific to PVVNL; they are the checks we run before we submit.

• The name on the application differs from the bill. A spelling difference, or a son applying on a father's connection. Apply in the bill's name.
• The system size is above the sanctioned load. The portal accepts it; the feasibility check does not. Raise the load first, or size to it.
• Ownership proof is missing or for another address. A rent agreement is not ownership; the deed or tax receipt must show the address on the bill.
• Plant details are incomplete. A missing photograph, a serial number that does not match the roof, or no safety certificate holds the file at the vendor stage.
• A wrong licensee was selected. A Noida application filed under NPCL goes nowhere until it is withdrawn and refiled.
• The mobile number is not the one on the connection. The one-time password goes to the wrong phone.

Escalation: what to do and what we do

Read the stage on the portal and note its date. Stages 3 and 6 belong to PVVNL, stages 4 and 5 to the installer, stage 7 to the portal and then you. Call the number on your bill to check status; the UPNEDA district solar cell is the state office to escalate if PVVNL has the file.

Check that the installer is not the bottleneck. Vendors are expected not to hold a file beyond 60 days. If a vendor stage has not moved for weeks, ask in writing what is pending.

Verde Solaire files the application with you on the survey visit, uploads the plant details as soon as the roof is done, attends the inspection, and keeps you informed of the file status. The escalation guide covers what to do if a stage stalls.

Print this checklist

• Bill in hand: licensee reads PVVNL, consumer number noted, sanctioned load noted in kW.
• System size at or below the sanctioned load, or a load increase applied for.
• Application in the name printed on the bill.
• Ownership proof for the address on the bill.
• Aadhaar or other photo ID and a passport-size photograph.
• Mobile number on the application is the one linked to the connection.
• Vendor chosen from the registered list on the portal, vendor code noted.
• Dated copies of every upload and a screenshot of each portal status.
• Inverter kept off until the bidirectional meter is fitted.
• Bank account and cancelled cheque in the applicant's name, ready for the claim.