Pushes the same 'must be made in India' rule further up the chain to wafers and ingots — the silicon slices that cells are cut from — starting June 2028. Aims to localise the deepest, most import-dependent step.

Key: effective 1 Jun 2028; needs 15 GW domestic wafer capacity

Approved List of Models and Maufacturers ( ALMM-Wind)

The wind version of the approved-list rule: wind projects must use approved, domestically-made major turbine parts — blades, towers, gearboxes — from makers that do their R&D in India.

Key: mandatory approved-list major components; India R&D/data

Solar and wind projects have been exempt from the fee for moving power between states, making inter-state clean power cheaper. That perk is now being phased out in steps and ends entirely after June 2028.

Key: 100% waiver ended 30 Jun 2025; nil after 30 Jun 2028

Battery and pumped-hydro storage projects skip the inter-state power-transmission fee if commissioned by June 2028 — an incentive to build the storage that firms up solar and wind.

Key: 100% waiver for BESS/PSP commissioned by 30 Jun 2028

A subsidy that makes big battery-storage projects financially viable, so grids can store daytime solar power for use after dark. Expanded in 2025 to 30 GWh of batteries.

Key: 30 GWh; Rs 5,400 cr; up to Rs 18 lakh/MWh

An import tax that makes foreign solar cells and panels more expensive at the border so Indian-made products can compete. Effective duty is roughly 40% on panels and about 27.5% on cells.

Key: cells 20% BCD +7.5% AIDC; modules 20% BCD +20% AIDC (eff ~40%)

Extends the approved-list rule one step upstream: from 1 June 2026 the panels themselves must be built from Indian-made solar cells, not just assembled in India. Closes the loophole of importing Chinese cells and assembling them locally.

Key: ~30 GW listed cell capacity; in force 1 Jun 2026

For government-subsidised projects, both the cells and the panels must be Indian-made, proven with a digital certificate. This is why 'DCR' panels sell for almost double the price of ordinary ones.

Key: 16-digit DCR certificate mandatory since 1 Dec 2024

Sets aside money to turn one village per district into a fully solar-powered 'model' community — a Rs 1 cr grant each — showcasing rural rooftop and community solar.

Key: Rs 800 cr; Rs 1 cr CFA per village; 1 village/district

The first-ever subsidy for building wind farms out at sea off Gujarat and Tamil Nadu (1 GW), plus money to upgrade ports. It kick-starts a brand-new segment for India.

Key: 1 GW (500 MW each Gujarat & TN); Rs 7,453 cr

A new auction design where developers must supply round-the-clock, on-demand clean power by bundling solar and wind with batteries — instead of selling power only when the sun shines. Most new tenders are heading this way.

Key: storage-backed firm RE; multiple SECI GWh tenders

Part of the hydrogen mission: it pays companies to build factories in India that make electrolysers — the machines that split water into green hydrogen — targeting about 1.5 GW a year of capacity.

Key: Rs 4,440 cr; ~1.5 GW electrolyser capacity

India's flagship rooftop-solar scheme: it gives households a cash subsidy (up to Rs 78,000) and up to 300 free units of electricity a month, aiming to put solar on 1 crore homes.

Key: 1 crore homes; up to Rs 78,000 subsidy; Rs 75,021 cr outlay

Lets owners of old, small wind turbines swap them for bigger modern ones (or extend their life) on the same land, with new-project tax perks and cheaper loans — squeezing more power from existing wind sites.

Key: targets sub-2 MW & >15-yr-old turbines

A rule forcing big power buyers — state utilities and large industries — to source a rising minimum share of their electricity from renewables, climbing to about 43% by 2029-30. It guarantees long-term demand for clean power.

Key: rises to 43.33% RCO by FY2029-30

A national push to make India a hub for green hydrogen — a fuel made by splitting water using renewable electricity — with incentives both for producing it and for building the electrolyser machines that make it.

Key: 5 MMT/yr green H2 by 2030; Rs 19,744 cr outlay

The government pays makers a bonus for every high-efficiency panel produced in India, rewarding those who build fully local factories — from polysilicon all the way to the finished panel. Rs 24,000 cr is set aside, but very little has been paid out so far.

Key: Rs 24,000 cr across 2 tranches; ~48 GW awarded

A scheme to solar-power farming: it funds standalone solar water pumps, solarising existing pump connections, and small farm-gate solar plants, so farmers cut diesel use and can sell surplus power.

Key: 34,800 MW target; deadline extended to 31 Mar 2027

Government-owned power companies get a subsidy (viability gap funding) to build solar plants — but only if they use Indian-made cells and panels. It pairs public demand with 'make in India'.

Key: 12,000 MW target; VGF; ~8.2 GW sanctioned

A government-approved list of which solar-panel brands are allowed in government, open-access and net-metering projects. Panels from makers not on the list can't be used there — which effectively shuts out cheaper imports.

Key: enforced for govt/OA/net-metering since Apr 2021

Approved List of Models and Manufacturer for Wind Turbine Components ( ALMM-WTC)

Viability Gap Funding (VGF) Scheme for development of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) supported through Power System Development Fund (PSDF)