Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has stated that Jaipur, Mysore and Thane have come forward to do pilot projects for grid-connected rooftop solar, The Ministry's Joint Secretary Tarun Kapur told a business newspaper that talks are on with one or two more cities in this regard.
Clearly, Kapur pointed out, feed-in tariff is not the way to go about it, because it is amenable to fraud. The Ministry is therefore in favour of capital subsidies for rooftop projects, so that the cost of power generated is around Rs 7, not much higher than grid power.
Today, as a thumb rule, a 10-kW rooftop system could cost Rs 22 lakh and would generate at best of times 4 units of electricity a day. The cost of generation works out to Rs 10-12, half of what it would have been even, say, three years ago, but still much higher than grid power.