Net metering in Ghaziabad: PVVNL process

Net metering in Ghaziabad runs through PVVNL, Paschimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited, the UPPCL company that supplies western Uttar Pradesh. Under the UPERC rooftop solar regulations of 2019, under the UPERC rooftop solar regulations of 2019, residential users may choose net or gross metering, and the DISCOM allows capacity within transformer limits. A subsidised home system is applied for on the PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana portal, and the net meter is one stage of that application; the subsidy of ₹78,000 from the Centre plus a state top-up capped at ₹30,000 per consumer, on top of the central subsidy is paid to your bank account after the meter is in and the commissioning certificate is issued.

Use the steps below to prepare your PVVNL application, keep the right documents ready and understand the choice between net and gross metering.

First, confirm the board and the sanctioned load

Ghaziabad and Noida city are both in PVVNL territory. NPCL (Noida Power Company Limited) serves Greater Noida and Greater Noida West only, and Delhi's three licensees stop at the border. For a Ghaziabad home, choose PVVNL on the national portal and enter the consumer number from your bill. The name at the top of your bill confirms the route.

The bill also carries your sanctioned load in kW. Under the UPERC framework the DISCOM allows rooftop capacity within transformer limits, and in practice it also looks at the load your connection is sanctioned for. If you want a 3 kW system on a 2 kW connection, ask PVVNL for a load enhancement before you apply, or accept the smaller size. Doing it afterwards means a second application.

• PVVNL

  Paschimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited

  Noida city, Ghaziabad and western UP

• NPCL

  Noida Power Company Limited

  Greater Noida and Greater Noida West

The two application routes

There are two doors, and which one you use depends on whether you want the subsidy.

Subsidised systems go through pmsuryaghar.gov.in. You register with your state, electricity distributor, consumer number and mobile number, then apply for rooftop solar and choose a registered vendor. The installer must be 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 vendor check page shows how to confirm any installer's registration before you pay an advance.

Unsubsidised systems, where the household gives up the subsidy, apply through PVVNL's own consumer portal, which Verde Solaire's June 2025 Ghaziabad page notes is open for solar applications. One rule differs on this route: consumers who give up the subsidy are exempt from List-II until 31 March 2027, whereas a subsidised system commissioned on or after 1 June 2026 must use cells on the ALMM List-II as well as modules on List-I.

Whichever door you use, the eligibility test is the same: an Indian citizen who owns a house with a suitable roof, has a valid electricity connection and has not taken an earlier solar subsidy.

The seven stages with PVVNL

1. 01

   Confirm the board and the sanctioned load

   Read both off a recent bill. If the load is below the system you want, apply for enhancement first.
2. 02

   Apply on the portal

   PM Surya Ghar portal for a subsidised system; the PVVNL consumer portal if you are giving the subsidy up. Verde Solaire files this with you on the survey visit.
3. 03

   Feasibility approval

   PVVNL checks the sanctioned load and the spare capacity on the local transformer, and sanctions a capacity.
4. 04

   Installation

   Panels, inverter, structure, earthing and the AC and DC distribution boxes, by the registered vendor. A few days on site once material arrives.
5. 05

   Net-meter application with plant details

   The installer uploads the technical details and photographs of the finished plant, and the net-meter request goes to PVVNL.
6. 06

   Inspection and meter installation

   A PVVNL engineer inspects the installation and the bidirectional meter replaces the existing one.
7. 07

   Commissioning certificate and subsidy claim

   The certificate is generated on the portal. You submit bank details and a cancelled cheque, and the subsidy is transferred to you.

The order matters because of money. You pay the installer; the government pays you, after the meter and the certificate. A quote that shows the subsidy as a deduction from the invoice, or an installer who asks you to sign the subsidy over, is departing from the scheme; the quote should show the gross price, the subsidy and the net as three separate lines.

Documents checklist

Keep these ready before the survey, because the portal asks for most of them at registration and the rest at the claim stage.

• A recent PVVNL bill, for the consumer number, the sanctioned load and the board's name.
• The mobile number linked to the connection; the portal sends its one-time passwords there.
• Proof that you own the house, since the eligibility rule requires it.
• The installer's registration on the national portal, which you select during the application.
• After installation: the plant details and photographs, uploaded by the installer.
• For the claim: your bank account details and a cancelled cheque.

Nothing on that list costs money to obtain. If an installer asks for a fee to "process" the subsidy, that fee is not part of the scheme.

What the rules say and what happens in practice

Uttar Pradesh has published fewer timelines than Delhi. Delhi's DERC guidelines, amended on 16 July 2026, require a connection within 10 days for systems up to 10 kW. The UPERC regulations give no equivalent day count for a PVVNL net meter, so the table separates what is written from what decides the wait.

Two things shorten the wait more than anything else. First, the application should go in before installation, not after, so the feasibility answer arrives while the material is being ordered. Second, the plant details should be uploaded the day the work finishes; the meter request cannot be raised until they are. MNRE's action against vendors holding applications was about exactly this gap. If your system is installed and the meter has not come, the installed-but-not-activated page sets out who to ask and in what order; UPNEDA's district solar cells are one route, since UPNEDA is the state nodal agency, and its district solar cells help with installation and net metering.

Net metering, gross metering and net feed-in

The Uttar Pradesh rules give a residential consumer the choice. Under net metering the bidirectional meter records what you export and what you import, and the bill is settled on the difference; daytime generation offsets evening consumption unit for unit within the billing period. Under gross metering the whole output is sold to the board at a fixed rate and the house keeps buying every unit at the domestic tariff. For a home that runs air conditioners, a refrigerator and a water pump during daylight, net metering is the better arrangement, and it is the one the subsidy scheme is built around.

Surplus is a separate question. For energy injected beyond what the home consumes, the Third Amendment to the UPERC regulations set compensation at the weighted-average large-solar tariff plus 25% (Third Amendment, in force from July 2025). Verde Solaire wrote in May 2023, when UPERC approved the net feed-in arrangement, that net feed-in is a different arrangement from net metering and was expected to matter most for commercial, industrial and institutional rooftops. For a house the practical point is to size the system to your own consumption rather than to export: the sizing guide is 0–150 units a month: 1–2 kW · 150–300 units: 2–3 kW · above 300 units: above 3 kW, applied to twelve months of bills rather than a summer one.

What Verde Solaire does in Ghaziabad

Verde Solaire's June 2025 Ghaziabad page lists service coverage across Vaishali, Indirapuram, Raj Nagar, Crossing Republik and Sahibabad, and offers documentation for the subsidy, the loan and net metering as part of the job. There is no Ghaziabad office; the head office in Sector 47, Noida is the nearest, and the survey team works from there.

The published reviews are from PVVNL's Noida side of the same process rather than Ghaziabad itself. Brij Lal Bhardwaj, with 4 kW at his Sector 25 house, described the team completing the installation, the documentation and the liaison with the electricity board for the net meter, and then getting the subsidy processed. Mr. L. R. Singh, with 6 kW, wrote that he "was also able to get solar subsidy in record time because of the follow up of the team of Verde Solaire". Every review is on the reviews page in full, with the city where the customer gave one.

Costs for the system itself, with the subsidy applied by capacity, are on the Ghaziabad pricing page; the site visit and the roof-right question on builder floors are on the Ghaziabad installation page. The board's own process page, shared with Noida, is the PVVNL guide.