Overview
- The national portal has crossed one crore household registrations and over 33 lakh rooftop systems have been commissioned, adding roughly 12 GW of distributed capacity, with May 2026 recording a scheme high of about 3.16 lakh installations.
- Union minister Pralhad Joshi has set a new implementation goal to take beneficiary households to more than 75 lakh by December 2026 as officials push to deepen uptake before the scheme window closes.
- Jammu & Kashmir’s Power Development Department won national recognition for May performance after reporting 98,601 portal applications, 33,987 commissioned installations and 121.61 MW added, with ₹258.18 crore central subsidy plus ₹10 crore UT top‑up disbursed.
- Western Madhya Pradesh has registered rapid local uptake, with over 50,000 households joining under the scheme, Indore accounting for about 28,200 installations and more than 48,000 beneficiaries in the region receiving direct subsidy payments.
- The programme’s pace has been driven by direct benefit transfers, cheap bank loans (rates cited as low as 6% in J&K), an expanding empanelled vendor base and Utility‑Linked Aggregation, which together lower upfront cost, speed inspections and raise household access to clean power.