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Despite a adjacent four-fold summation successful applications betwixt March 2024 and July 2025, lone 13.1% of the people 1 crore star rooftop installations, nether the PM Surya Ghar Yojana has been achieved, and conscionable 14.1% of the allocated ₹65,700 crore successful subsidies released till July 2025, a study said.
“In this scenario, the FY2027 people [of 1 crore installations] continues to beryllium viewed arsenic a sizeable challenge,” said a study connected the show of the scheme, jointly published by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) and JMK Research & Analytics connected Tuesday.
Reasons see a tardy support processes, which could agelong anyplace from 45 to 120 days, stemming mostly from “meter shortages, deficiency of coordination betwixt consumers, installers, and DISCOMs, and procedural inefficiencies astatine the inferior level,” the study noted.
The PMSGY is simply a Centre-led endeavour to promote much homes to instal roof-top star connections. The authorities provides superior upfront via loans and improves the wide work transportation for aspirants successful liaising with backstage companies that supply installation services. The Centre had acceptable a people of 1 crore installations by 2027.
As of July 2025, the play until which the study tracked progress, the PMSGY had received 57.9 lakh applications for residential rooftop star installations. The strategy has facilitated the installation of 4,946 MW of rooftop star capableness till July 2025 crossed assorted States and Union Territories, indicating “robust on-ground execution,” the study says. Subsidy disbursements person crossed ₹9,281 crore ($1.05 billion), benefiting implicit 16 lakh households. As of July 2025, the 4.9 GW of installations added nether the PMSGY accounted for astir 44.5% of the country’s full residential rooftop capacity.
So far, the study said, Gujarat leads each States with the highest installed residential rooftop star capableness of 1,491 MW, followed by Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, and Rajasthan. The apical 5 States unneurotic accounted for astir 77.2% of the full installed capacity.
The PM star strategy lone incentivises star installations, whose constituent parts are wholly manufactured successful India. Called “DCR-compliant modules”, they are connected mean costlier by ₹12/watt implicit imported variants.
“These higher prices are making larger residential installations little economically charismatic and, successful immoderate cases, eroding the effectual payment of the ₹78,000 (USD 897.1) subsidy. At the aforesaid time, home DCR module proviso remains fragmented and limited, resulting successful transportation delays of up to 2 months. These delays are prompting galore consumers to opt for non-DCR systems and forgo the subsidy successful favour of faster installations,” the study underlined. “Without stronger measures to prioritise home proviso for PMSGY implicit exports and code anti-dumping-related outgo pressures... the affordability and timely rollout of residential rooftop projects are apt to stay astatine risk.”
“Establishing clear, time-bound rooftop star capableness targets astatine the State level is indispensable for creating a coherent imaginativeness and ensuring effectual argumentation execution,” said Vibhuti Garg, Director, IEEFA-South Asia, and a contributing author, said successful a statement.
In a property connection past week, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy said that arsenic of September 2025, Public Sector Banks (PSBs) person sanctioned implicit 5.79 lakh indebtedness applications, amounting to ₹10,907 crore for the scheme.
