Guwahati, Nov 8: As the PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana (PMSGMBY) – the world’s largest subsidized domestic rooftop solar initiative – picks up in Assam, APDCL has imported over 31 million units of excess solar power generated from residential installations which have become functional since April this year.

The discom has adopted a net-metering mechanism for residential consumers with rooftop solar capacity up to 10 KW wherein the solar units exported by the consumers to the grid are being adjusted against unit consumption from the grid.

“Consumers who have installed the rooftop systems use only a portion of the power generated during the day. The excess power generated is exported to APDCL which is later adjusted to the unit consumption of the consumer. The discom has imported over 3

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