Net metering in Noida: PVVNL process

Net metering in Noida city is handled by PVVNL, a UPPCL company, and not by NPCL, which serves Greater Noida. For a subsidised system the application starts on the PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana portal, PVVNL gives feasibility approval, a registered vendor installs the system, PVVNL inspects it and fits the bidirectional meter, and the subsidy is paid to your bank account, officially "within 30 days" of the claim; about 15 days on average. Verde Solaire files that application, attends the inspection and follows the meter through to activation on every Noida system it installs.

Use the guide below to prepare a Noida application with the right electricity board, documents and next steps. It also explains the Uttar Pradesh rules and the usual path from application to meter activation.

PVVNL, not NPCL: check the name on your bill

Noida city's electricity distributor is PVVNL (Paschimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited, a UPPCL company). It is the licensee for Noida city, Ghaziabad and western Uttar Pradesh under the state holding company UPPCL, and its Noida offices handle the feasibility check, the inspection and the meter. The national portal asks for your distribution company at the very first step, so settle it before you register: the licensee's name is printed at the top of your bill.

Not yet official. From a secondary source; confirm against your electricity bill.

Greater Noida and Greater Noida West are served by NPCL (Noida Power Company Limited), a separate licensee with its own portal and inspection team. If your bill is for a Noida-city sector, apply through PVVNL; if it says NPCL, use the Greater Noida guide instead.

Not yet official. From a secondary source; confirm against your electricity bill.

• PVVNL

  Paschimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited

  Noida city, Ghaziabad and western UP

• NPCL

  Noida Power Company Limited

  Greater Noida and Greater Noida West

What the UPERC rules allow

The rules come from the Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC), not from PVVNL. under the UPERC rooftop solar regulations of 2019, residential users may choose net or gross metering, and the DISCOM allows capacity within transformer limits. Net metering sets the units you export by day against the units you import at night and bills the difference. Gross metering sells everything you generate at a fixed rate while you go on buying everything you use at the tariff. Almost every home chooses net metering, because a unit you avoid buying costs more than a unit you sell.

The third amendment of the regulations, in force from July 2025, set a rate for the surplus a home injects into the grid: the weighted-average large-solar tariff plus 25% (Third Amendment, in force from July 2025).

Not yet official. Read through a secondary summary; the gazette text was not checked.

The transformer limit is the part of the rule that decides real applications. PVVNL approves capacity on a feeder only within what the local transformer can take, and a lane where several houses have already installed solar can be full. That is a site question, not a policy question, and it is why the survey visit checks the sanctioned load on your connection and the transformer before we size a system. UPNEDA is the state nodal agency, and its district solar cells help with installation and net metering, so if a case stalls between PVVNL and the portal, the district solar cell is the state body to ask.

The process, stage by stage

For a subsidised system the route is fixed by the scheme: 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 seven stages below are the same nine portal steps the how-to-apply guide walks through, grouped the way PVVNL sees them.

1. 01

   Confirm your electricity board and sanctioned load from the billBefore you register

   Both are printed on the PVVNL bill. The sanctioned load caps the system size PVVNL will approve, and the consumer number must be typed on the portal exactly as printed. If the bill is in a parent's name, apply in that name and use that person's bank account.
2. 02

   Apply on the PM Surya Ghar portal, or to PVVNL directly without subsidyOne sitting; we do it with you at the survey

   Register on pmsuryaghar.gov.in with Uttar Pradesh, PVVNL, the consumer number and the mobile number linked to the connection, then log in and apply for rooftop solar with the size in kW and Verde Solaire as the vendor. A system that does not take the subsidy applies to PVVNL through its own channel.
3. 03

   Feasibility approval by PVVNLNo published PVVNL turnaround that we could verify

   PVVNL checks the application against its consumer records, the sanctioned load and the transformer capacity on your feeder. A refusal on transformer grounds usually means a smaller size, not no system.
4. 04

   Installation by the registered vendorAfter feasibility approval

   Panels, inverter, structure, earthing and the protection boxes. Indian-made modules and cells, with the cells on ALMM List-II, are conditions of the subsidy.
5. 05

   Net-meter application with plant detailsFiled by us after installation

   The vendor uploads the plant details on the portal and applies for the net meter. This is the stage where the case sits with PVVNL, and the one worth asking your installer about before you pay the advance.
6. 06

   PVVNL inspection and meter installationSet by PVVNL

   A PVVNL team inspects the installation and replaces the existing meter with a bidirectional one. We attend the inspection and answer the technical questions.
7. 07

   Commissioning certificate and subsidy claimOfficially within 30 days of the claim

   The certificate is issued on the portal. You then submit your bank details and a cancelled cheque, and the subsidy is transferred to your account.

Nothing in this sequence is paid to PVVNL by you through us. You pay the installer, the portal pays you, and the who pays whom page sets out that order with a worked example for Noida.

Documents to keep ready

The portal and PVVNL set the final list, and the ones every application uses are short. Keep them together before you register, because the consumer number and the name have to match across all of them.

• Your latest PVVNL bill. The consumer number, the sanctioned load and the licensee's name are all read from it.
• Proof that you own the house, such as the sale deed or the property tax receipt. Eligibility rests on owning the roof.
• A photo ID of the applicant, usually Aadhaar, and a passport-size photograph.
• The mobile number linked to the connection, because the portal verifies it with a one-time password.
• Bank account details and a cancelled cheque, needed at the claim stage after commissioning, in the applicant's name.
• Plant details after installation: the module and inverter make and model and the installed capacity. The vendor uploads these; ask for a copy.

The applicant must be an Indian citizen who owns a house with a suitable roof, has a valid electricity connection and has not taken an earlier solar subsidy. If any of those conditions is doubtful, the eligibility checker settles it in seven questions.

Timeline: the official rules and what happens in practice

The honest answer on timing is that Uttar Pradesh has published far less than Delhi. The table separates the two.

Not yet official. Reported by trade and news sources; the official figure is within 30 days.

Two things follow from that table. First, a Noida quote that promises a net meter "in ten days" is quoting Delhi's rule, not Noida's. Second, the gap between commissioning and activation is where most complaints about installers arise, in Noida as elsewhere, and the installed but not activated guide explains what an installer can and cannot do in that gap.

What we file and follow, and what Noida customers wrote

Verde Solaire's head office is in Sector 47, Noida, and the PVVNL process is one it runs every week. At the survey we fill in the portal application with you, confirm the licensee and the sanctioned load from the bill, and check the transformer. After installation we upload the plant details, apply for the net meter, attend the PVVNL inspection and keep following the case until the bidirectional meter is fitted and the commissioning certificate is on the portal. The survey and the proposal are a free site evaluation and no-obligation proposal.

Customers in Noida have written about exactly this part of the job. The owner of a 4 kW system in Sector 25 wrote that the team did the complete installation, including the documentation and the liaison with the electricity department for the net meter, and that the subsidy was processed for him. Mr. L. R. Singh, who installed a 6 kW system in Noida, wrote: "I was also able to get solar subsidy in record time because of the follow up of the team of Verde Solaire."

One review from a Delhi customer is worth reading alongside those, because it describes the part no installer controls. Arun Sibal wrote that the only issue was the time BSES took to install the net meter, which was not in Verde Solaire's control, and that "Verde people always kept me in the loop regarding the net meter status." That is the promise we can make in Noida too: not a date PVVNL has not published, but a case that is filed correctly, followed weekly, and reported to you.

Sizing against the sanctioned load

PVVNL approves capacity against two limits: the sanctioned load on your connection and the transformer on your feeder. The scheme's own sizing guide is 0–150 units a month: 1–2 kW · 150–300 units: 2–3 kW · above 300 units: above 3 kW. A quick check is to add twelve months of bills and divide by twelve, because a summer bill alone will oversize the system and a system above the sanctioned load will not clear feasibility.

The subsidy shapes the size too. On a 3 kW system the combined subsidy in Uttar Pradesh is ₹1,08,000, made up of ₹78,000 from the central scheme and ₹30,000 from the state, and nothing is added above 3 kW. The Noida price page has the published price and the net figure for each size, and the system size calculator works from your bill. If you live on a builder floor or share the roof, the shared roofs guide covers the roof right and the sanctioned load question first.

Subsidised systems must use both the modules and the cells must be made in India, and since 1 June 2026 the cells must appear on ALMM List-II. PVVNL checks the module details at inspection, so the make and model on your quote should be the ones on the roof.

What the bill looks like after the meter

Once the bidirectional meter is in, PVVNL bills you on net units. The energy charge on the units your system covers disappears; the fixed charge does not. Uttar Pradesh urban domestic connections pay a fixed charge of ₹110 per kW per month, and it stays on the bill whatever the panels generate.

Not yet official. From a secondary summary of the UPERC order.

The bill calculator shows the arithmetic for your units and sanctioned load, and the Noida tariff guide explains each line of the PVVNL bill.