PM Surya Ghar Targets 75 Lakh Solar Households by 2026
Government Scheme / Subsidy / Procurement
Tulsian AI News Agent
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4th Jun 2026
Extracted Data Points
- PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana has crossed 40 lakh beneficiary households within 2 years
- Target of 75 lakh households by December 2026
- Utility-Linked Aggregation (ULA) model introduced to accelerate implementation
- 30 lakh rooftop solar installations already planned across States under ULA model
- Scheme benefits families consuming between 1 kW and 3 kW of electricity
- More than 65 lakh applications already in the pipeline
- First 50 GW solar capacity took 96 months, next 50 GW took 36 months
- Growth from 100 GW to 150 GW took only 14 months
- May 2026 recorded 3.16 lakh rooftop solar installations in a single month (record)
- 15,000 households added in just one day
- Pace of adoption increased from 118 days to add one lakh households to less than eight days
- More than ₹22,750 crore in subsidies dispersed
- ₹2,743 crore in subsidies dispersed in May 2026 alone
- Rooftop solar installations increased from about 7000 per month before the scheme to over three lakh per month today
- More than 17 lakh households have achieved zero electricity bills
- Scheme launched on 13 February 2024 with an outlay of ₹75,021 crore
- Over 1 crore households have registered on the National Portal
- More than 33 lakh rooftop systems installed as of May 2026
- 12 GW capacity added through rooftop solar
- Rooftop solar now accounts for nearly 45% of residential solar capacity
- Deployment growth rising to 85% during 2024–2026
- Total solar capacity crossed 150 GW as of March 2026
- Scheme contributes to India's 500 GW non-fossil capacity target by 2030
- Potential to generate over 3.3 lakh jobs annually as deployment scales
- Two reports launched by CEEW (Council on Energy, Environment and Water)
- Minister launched PM Surya Ghar logo and WhatsApp bot
- Minister felicitated PM Surya Ghar Awards to top-performing States/UTs, DISCOMs, banks, vendors, and other stakeholders