Solar when the roof isn't yours

Which of the three applies to you

The route is decided by what you control, not by budget. Read the qualifying question on each card — one of them will be obviously yours.

Who pays, and what support exists

Support is credited to the consumer after commissioning. Treat any quotation that silently nets it off the invoice as a financing arrangement, not a discount.

How a Delhi society virtual-net-metering file actually moves

Ordered the way the DISCOM reads it, not the way a sales deck presents it.

1. 1

   General-body resolution before anything else

   BSES will not open a virtual-net-metering file on a verbal RWA agreement. You need a dated resolution naming the capacity, the vendor, the funding route, and the list of flats that will receive credit. Societies that skip this stage lose four to eight weeks re-doing it after the sub-division engineer asks.

2. 2

   Decide whose consumer number owns the plant

   The generating connection is the society's common-area number in almost every Delhi case. Registering it against an individual flat looks simpler and then blocks credit-splitting entirely, because a domestic connection cannot parent other meters.

3. 3

   Fix the beneficiary list and the split percentages

   Each enrolled flat is filed with a fixed share of exported units. The split is a contract between residents, not something the DISCOM arbitrates. Changing it later means re-filing, so societies usually anchor it to contribution amount or to super-area, and write the rule into the resolution.

4. 4

   Single-line diagram, sanctioned load, and the feasibility visit

   The plant is capped by the sanctioned load of the parent connection, not by roof area. Common-area sanctioned load in older DDA and CGHS blocks is frequently far below the roof's potential, and enhancing it is a separate application that runs in parallel.

5. 5

   Bi-directional meter on the parent, credit mapping on the children

   One bi-directional meter goes on the generating connection. The enrolled flats keep their existing meters — what changes is a mapping inside the DISCOM billing system. Residents should expect their first credited bill one full cycle after commissioning, not immediately.

6. 6

   Who signs what

   The society signs the net-metering agreement and owns the O&M obligation. Each enrolled resident signs a consent to be mapped as a beneficiary. If the plant is funded by residents rather than the corpus, that funding agreement is a third, private document — the DISCOM neither sees nor enforces it.

Where these files fail

We have done this, not just written about it

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