Rooftop State Level Policy Data of West Bengal

Policy Data of West Bengal

Eligibility Criteria for Net Metering i.e. Upper cap and Lower cap	5 kW–not specified
Banking Norms for Rooftop	Yearly
Key Approvals required for Rooftop	1. CEIG approval 2. Net metering approval (if applicable) or NOC from DISCOM
DISCOMs	Calcutta Electricity Supply Co.(CESC) Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) WBSEDCL
Key Regulatory Charges/exemptions for Rooftop (if any) For more details visit individual DISCOM website.	The rooftop solar system installed on eligible consumer premises, are exempt from payment of banking and wheeling charges and losses, cross subsidy and additional surcharge etc. Project wise Statutory fees, testing fees, supervision charges, application fees etc. are applicable and varies time to time as policy changes	Transmission and wheeling charges will not be applicable to rooftop solar projects to the extent there is no wheeling of such electricity.

West Bengal

Eligibility Criteria for Net Metering i.e. Upper cap and Lower cap

5 kW–not specified

Banking Norms for Rooftop

Yearly

Key Approvals required for Rooftop

CEIG approval
Net metering approval (if applicable) or NOC from DISCOM

DISCOMs

Key Regulatory Charges/exemptions for Rooftop (if any) For more details visit individual DISCOM website.

Transmission and wheeling charges will not be applicable to rooftop solar projects to the extent there is no wheeling of such electricity.

* Subject to

- feasibility of interconnection with grid
- available capacity of service line connection of consumer of premise
- the sanctioned load of consumer of the premise

Source: Centre for Energy Finance, Individual DISCOM websites

Disclaimer: The information presented above is for educational purposes only. All the data provided in the article above are approximate values derived from third party sources, research articles or on ground experience and CleanMax would take no responsibility or have any obligation over the correctness of data. The regulatory policies get updated from time to time and it is highly encouraged that you head over to individual DISCOM sites to refer the latest changes.

Acronyms Used:

NOC	No Objection Certificate
HERC	Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission
APPC	Average Power Purchase Cost
CEIG	Chief Electrical Inspector to Government
CDM	Clean Development Mechanism