The Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE) has targeted to install solar power projects on rooftops of 35 lakh households equalling about 10.5 gigawatts capacity in the next financial year, beginning April 2025.
“For 2025-26, the scheme has been allocated a budget of ₹20,000 crore to complete 35 lakh installations equalling around 10.5 GW capacity,” said the report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy on the demand for grants of MNRE for FY25.
MNRE representatives had informed the panel about the targets during their oral submissions on February 25, 2025.
During FY26, a budget estimate (BE) of ₹26,549.38 crore has been allocated to the Ministry, which is an increase of about 53.48 per cent on the RE of ₹17,298.44 crore for FY25.
PM Surya Ghar accounts for more than three-fourth of the total budgeted spending on MNRE’s central sector schemes and projects ( ₹26,399.37 crore), which includes solar power, wind power, renewable energy sources (RES) and green hydrogen mission.
On the progress under the scheme, the MNRE representative said “1.72 crore registrations have been done in which 45.84 lakh applications are there. Installation has been done in 9.05 lakh households. Subsidy has been credited to the bank accounts of about 6 lakh households.”
Apart from this, there is also a provision to give incentives to Discoms in the scheme. Incentives worth ₹2,000 crore have been released in this. Discoms have waived technical feasibility as such approval is not required up to ten kilowatts, he added.
In the last ten years, 7.9 lakh rooftops have been installed in the country and in the last one year, 9 lakh residential rooftops have been installed, the Ministry’s representative noted.
10 lakh installations
On Tuesday, the Minister for New & Renewable Energy Pralhad Joshi announced on X (formerly Twitter) that the Ministry has achieved 10 lakh installations under PM Surya Ghar scheme.
In FY25, which ends this month, the Ministry had set a target of installing solar power projects on rooftops of 25 lakh households. However, it expects to install 12 lakh projects till March 31, 2025.
Under the PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana, the Ministry aims at solarizing one crore households by providing free electricity up to 300 units every month through rooftop solar installations. The government has allocated around ₹75,000 crore and it has to be implemented by FY27.
These 1 crore installations will generate about one lakh crore units of electricity and lead to a reduction of 72 crore tonnes of CO2 emission.
