Rooftop generation provides nearly 20% of India's solar power capacity India's boom in small-scale solar generation has not gone unnoticed: According to Inbar, by July 2026, the capacity of rooftop PV panels in the country had reached 30.7 GW, or 19% of the country's total solar capacity. Almost half of this volume (14.9 GW) comes from the residential sector thanks to the government program Prime Minister Surya Gar: Free Electricity Program, which provides subsidies for the installation of electrical equipment. Due to the fact that households consume little energy during the day and a lot in the evening, the shared network becomes a "virtual battery": excess energy is supplied to the shared network and "taken back" in the evening. However, one-to-one offset creates losses for companies that combine the distribution and sale functions of electricity: 1 kWh exported to the grid during the day fully compensates for 1 kWh consumed from the grid in the evening, when prices are multiples higher than the daily level. The "top cut" of the tariff scales also leads to losses. The solar installation covers the base consumption, thus "removes" from the consumer's account exactly the energy units that cost the most, i.e. are at the top level of the tariff scale. As a result, the company loses the most marginal part of its sales to the customer, even though the actual energy consumption has not changed. The solution may be to use storage devices. This will not only allow households to use the energy produced in the evening, but will also reduce the daily export of excess to the grid by 85-90%, thus supporting the economics of electricity distribution and marketing. However, this will require subsidies because the use of storage increases the payback period of home energy systems from more than three to nine years. High voltage in Telegram | up to MAX.

Rooftop generation provides nearly 20% of India's solar power capacity India's boom in small-scale solar generation has not gone unnoticed: According to Inbar, by July 2026, the capacity of rooftop PV panels in the country had reached 30.7 GW, or 19% of the country's total solar capacity. Almost half of this volume (14.9 GW) comes from the residential sector thanks to the government program Prime Minister Surya Gar: Free Electricity Program, which provides subsidies for the installation of electrical equipment. Due to the fact that households consume little energy during the day and a lot in the evening, the shared network becomes a "virtual battery": excess energy is supplied to the shared network and "taken back" in the evening. However, one-to-one offset creates losses for companies that combine the distribution and sale functions of electricity: 1 kWh exported to the grid during the day fully compensates for 1 kWh consumed from the grid in the evening, when prices are multiples higher than the daily level. The "top cut" of the tariff scales also leads to losses. The solar installation covers the base consumption, thus "removes" from the consumer's account exactly the energy units that cost the most, i.e. are at the top level of the tariff scale. As a result, the company loses the most marginal part of its sales to the customer, even though the actual energy consumption has not changed. The solution may be to use storage devices. This will not only allow households to use the energy produced in the evening, but will also reduce the daily export of excess to the grid by 85-90%, thus supporting the economics of electricity distribution and marketing. However, this will require subsidies because the use of storage increases the payback period of home energy systems from more than three to nine years. High voltage in Telegram | up to MAX.