• Individual rooftop owners may engage turnkey installers to design and install systems on their rooftops and in turn pay the turnkey installers a monthly lease rental for the same. Thus the householder avoids large upfront investment for the solar equipment and performance risk management.

• Alternately, the installers can also offer an integrated service of leasing, commissioning, and maintaining the systems to owners, and guarantee standards of performance.

• The leasing company generates revenue by way of lease rental from rooftop owners under a contract  and as owners of the equipment, qualifies for claiming depreciation on capital cost of the PV systems with associated direct tax benefits.

• Such a system meets the rooftop owner’s internal electricity needs while the excess generation is fed into the grid on net metering basis.

• The distribution licensee shall provide net metering arrangements to all eligible consumers as long as the cumulative capacity permitted for that particular distribution transformer does not exceed 20% of the transformer’s rated capacity

The interconnection of the Rooftop PV Solar Power Plant with the network of the distribution licensee shall be made as per the technical specifications and standards for connectivity provided in the Central Electrical Authority Regulations, 2013.

Injection of power from the rooftop Solar PV system shall not be more than 90% of the total consumption of the consumer from the Licensee’s supply in a Settlement Period. 

The rooftop solar system under net-metering arrangement, whether self-owned or third party owned, installed on eligible consumer premises, shall be exempted from banking and wheeling charges, losses, cross subsidy and additional surcharge, etc. 

The quantum of electricity consumed by the eligible consumer (not defined as obligated entity), under net-metering arrangement shall qualify towards compliance of RPO for the Distribution Licensee. 

•  The Energy Account Statement issued to consumer by distribution licensee for each billing cycle shall show quantum of export/injected energy from rooftop solar PV system, import/drawal of energy from distribution licensee in the billing period, previous billing cycle banked energy, net billed energy for payment by the consumer for that billing period or net banked energy carried forward to the next billing period, separately.

• The settlement of net energy, including any banked energy, shall be done at the end of each settlement period based on 90% of the consumption. At the beginning of each settlement period the cumulative carried over injected energy shall be reset to zero.

• Electricity duty shall be levied as per Govt. of J&K instructions amended from time to time. 

The policy document has laid down technical and interconnection requirements and O&M practices to be followed.

http://jakeda.jk.gov.in/policy.aspx 

http://jakeda.jk.gov.in/links/RTT%20policy%202016%20Final.pdf