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A gazette notification dated October 31, 2025 by the Housing and Urban Development Department of Tamil Nadu issuing amendments to the Tamil Nadu Combined Development and Building Rules, 2019 augurs good for electrical conveyance charging infrastructure successful the state, and surely successful Chennai, a burgeoning metropolis with a galloping maturation successful the lodging sector.
In residential buildings, a charging constituent for electrical vehicles needs to beryllium provided successful each car parking and 2 wheeler parking space. In buildings wherever the fig of dwelling units exceeds 50, car and two-wheeler parking abstraction earmarked for visitors shall beryllium provided with accelerated charging points. However, buildings up to 14 m successful tallness not exceeding 8 dwelling units oregon 750 quadrate meters of built-up country are exempt from this requirement.
Those moving successful the renewable vigor abstraction enactment that earlier flat complexes commencement drafting up plans to supply EV infrastructure, it would assistance to archetypal put successful star panels and this would beryllium a strategical move. The synergy betwixt the 2 technologies tin make a sustainable vigor ecosystem on with immense savings connected the energy bill.
Already, Tamil Nadu Combined Development and Building Rules 2019 mandates that astatine slightest 1 3rd of terrace abstraction beryllium reserved for placement of star photovoltaic panels to get a completion certificate from CMDA.
Ashok Kumar, president, Tamil Nadu Solar Energy Developers Association, gives 3 reasons wherefore they are pushing for greater adoption of star energy.
For home use, consumers tin avail a subsidy nether Prime Minister Surya Ghar Scheme for a minimum of 3 kW photovoltaic star plant. “Since the GST taxation slab was revised, the full outgo of installing a star powerfulness portion has travel down by different 5%,” says Ashok. “The excess vigor generated is fed into the grid, truthful 1 tin usage star vigor 24x7 and that vigor tin beryllium utilized to complaint an EV vehicle.”
Residential vs commercialized tariff
Krutivas Pushkar, managing manager of Pushkar Properties and a subordinate of Confederation of Real Estate Developers Associations of India (CREDAI), says contiguous star and EV infrastructure are sought-after amenities successful residential projects, but immoderate factors are hindering their progress. For instance, TNEB takes much than six months to get a star portion installed connected the rooftop connected to the grid.
“When you are coming up with a residential task with a star portion connected the rooftop, the communal areas successful the blocks (which see lifts/lights/landscaping/ borewell motors) travel nether the commercialized tariff, wherever the rates are overmuch higher than what is charged nether residential tariff,” says Krutivas.
So adjacent if a assemblage has been harnessing the powerfulness of the sun, they bash not get “unit to unit” deduction. “You nutrient immoderate you privation and springiness it to the grid, the TNEB gives you ₹3.80 per portion rebate, whereas for the commercialized tariff, a complaint of astir ₹8 per portion is borne by the residents association. This is thing CREDAI is warring arsenic we privation the communal areas successful the residential artifact to beryllium brought nether residential tariff oregon it volition not promote radical to power to this renewable root of energy,” says Krutivas.
