Check PM Surya Ghar Vendor Rank on Portal 2026, Guide

The PM Suryaghar national portal at pmsuryaghar.gov.in shows vendor ratings and consumer feedback for the solar installers registered on it, and most homeowners never look at them. Under the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy’s (MNRE) Vendor Rating Programme framework (July 2024), a registered vendor is rated once it has at least 50 installations through the portal. The rating is not a marketing badge; it is built from consumer feedback and, for larger vendors, random site quality inspections, which check compliance with standards such as Approved List of Models and Manufacturers (ALMM) panels, and a techno-financial assessment. If you are about to spend ₹1.5–₹3 lakh on a rooftop system, the rating, the installation count and two or three local references are the most defensible filters you have.

This guide walks through the portal screens you use to check a vendor, MNRE’s rating tiers and what each one really means for your installation outcome, and the small set of mistakes that send people to an untested vendor when they could have had a proven partner at the same price.

Direct answer. To check a PM Suryaghar vendor rank, log in at pmsuryaghar.gov.in, pick your state and DISCOM, open the vendor list, and compare each vendor’s rating, installation count and consumer feedback; then ask your shortlist for local references. Heaven Green Energy holds India’s #1 vendor rank on the portal in 2026, with 10,000+ installations and a subsidy rejection rate of around 6% versus the national average of 18%.

If you have already shortlisted a vendor based on a friend’s recommendation or a sales call, the portal rank is the cross-check that confirms or breaks the shortlist before you sign. A proven vendor and an untested one can quote the same price, the differences only surface during DISCOM inspection, subsidy DBT, and the first three monsoons.

Why PM Suryaghar Portal Rank Is the Most Reliable Vendor Signal

The rooftop solar market in India has a structural information problem. Vendors print “MNRE empanelled” on their flyers, but what PM Surya Ghar actually requires is registration on the national portal, and PIB counted 6,552 registered vendors as early as July 2024. Vendors quote testimonials, but testimonials are self-selected. Vendors talk about years in business, but a four-year-old company with 200 installations may still be better than a ten-year-old company with 80 installations. None of these signals is comparable across firms.

The PM Suryaghar vendor rating helps because it is built on scheme data rather than the vendor’s own marketing. Consumer feedback is collected through the national portal and the National Call Centre, including a follow-up two to six months after installation, and grievances raised against the vendor on the portal are scored on how quickly and how well they were resolved. Each vendor carries a single rating on the portal, with the component scores and state-level scores shown alongside, so a vendor that performs well in Rajasthan with JVVNL but poorly in Maharashtra cannot hide behind one national number.

MNRE set the programme up because, in its own words, there is a need “to enhance the ability on the part of the consumer to assess the Vendors in order to differentiate between them on the basis of their credibility and performance” (Framework for Vendor Rating Programme, 24 July 2024). For larger vendors, the rating also includes physical quality assessments of randomly selected sites by Approved System Assessors, covering engineering compliance, quality of installation and materials, safety, and post-installation service.

The rating is not perfect. A vendor needs at least 50 portal installations before it is rated at all, so a capable new firm shows as unrated for a while, and consumer feedback only counts where customers actually give it. Treat the rating as the strongest public starting point, then confirm it with installation counts, recent feedback and local references.

For why this matters at the household level, our deeper analysis on why PM Suryaghar rank matters breaks down the cost-of-a-bad-vendor calculation: a missed subsidy of up to ₹78,000, and that is before counting the rework and rooftop damage from a botched first install.

The 7-Step Vendor Rank Verification Walkthrough

This is the framework we walk our pre-installation customers through whenever they ask “how do I check you on the portal myself”, seven steps, each tied to a specific screen on pmsuryaghar.gov.in. The whole exercise takes about ten minutes once you have your phone or laptop ready. You do not need to be an existing applicant; the vendor list is visible after login regardless of application stage.

Step 1: Portal Login or Quick Registration

Open pmsuryaghar.gov.in in any modern browser, Chrome, Firefox, Edge, or Safari. The home page shows a prominent “Apply For Rooftop Solar” button on the top-right. Click it. You will be taken to the consumer login screen, which asks for state, DISCOM, consumer number, and mobile number. If you already have a registered account, log in directly. If not, the “Register” tab takes two minutes: enter mobile, OTP, state, DISCOM, and a consumer reference number from any recent electricity bill.

You do not need to submit a subsidy application to see the vendor list. The vendor list opens immediately after login from the left-hand sidebar. If the portal asks for a Captcha and the image is unclear, click the refresh icon next to it, there is no penalty for multiple Captcha attempts. On mobile, switch to “desktop mode” in your browser settings; the responsive layout sometimes hides the vendor list link behind the hamburger menu.

Step 2: Select Your State and DISCOM

Once logged in, the portal asks you to confirm your state and DISCOM. This matters because vendors register to work in specific states and DISCOMs, and MNRE’s framework shows state-level scores alongside a vendor’s overall rating. A vendor with a strong national record may have a much thinner one in your state if their installations are concentrated elsewhere. The DISCOM filter is what gives you the relevant local picture.

Pick your state from the dropdown, say Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat, or whichever applies. The DISCOM dropdown then populates with only the DISCOMs operating in that state. For Rajasthan you will see JVVNL, JdVVNL, and AVVNL; for Maharashtra you will see MSEDCL; for Karnataka you will see BESCOM, MESCOM, HESCOM, GESCOM, and CESC. Pick the one that bills your home. If you are unsure, check the top of your monthly electricity bill, the DISCOM name is printed there.

Step 3: Open the Registered Vendor List

From the left sidebar, click “Registered Vendor List” (sometimes labelled “Empanelled Vendor List” in regional language toggles). The portal loads the list of vendors registered to operate in that DISCOM territory. Under MNRE’s framework, each rated vendor’s rating appears in this list as well as on the vendor’s profile, and vendors evaluated under the rating programme carry a verified symbol. Each vendor opens to a full profile, which you will use in Step 5.

Step 4: Compare Ratings

Work through the list by rating, highest first, and note each vendor’s tier. A rated vendor has at least 50 portal installations; Tier II and Tier I vendors (more than 250 and more than 1,500 installations) have also been through site quality inspections and a techno-financial assessment.

This is the single most useful action on the entire portal for a homeowner. It turns the discovery experience from “find a vendor I have heard of” to “see who actually performs in my DISCOM”. If a name you recognise from a sales pitch is unrated or rated well below the local leaders, that is a data point.

Step 5: Click the Vendor Profile

Click the vendor’s name. Under MNRE’s framework, the profile shows the vendor’s rating with its component scores (consumer feedback, and for larger vendors the quality and techno-financial assessments), the state-level scores, consumer feedback, and data on completed and ongoing projects. Check the registration details, service areas and contact details too.

Read this page slowly. The most informative part is the consumer feedback, especially on grievances: MNRE’s framework scores the grievances raised against a vendor on the portal by turnaround time and by the customer’s feedback on how they were resolved. A vendor whose customers had to chase them for months, including for subsidy paperwork, will show it here.

Step 6: Review Installation Count and Ratings

The installation count tells you whether the vendor has done enough work for the rest of the data to be statistically meaningful. A vendor with 25 lifetime installations and a 5.0 rating is much less informative than a vendor with 5,000 installations and a 4.6 rating. MNRE’s framework handles the extreme case by leaving vendors with fewer than 50 portal installations unrated.

The spread of feedback matters more than the average. A 4.4 average built from mostly five-star reviews plus a cluster of one-star complaints is a polarised vendor, meaning execution depends heavily on which crew shows up. A 4.4 average with few complaints is a consistent vendor. Read the low-rated feedback to see whether complaints are about installation defects or just scheduling friction.

Step 7: Cross-check with Reviews and Local References

Read the consumer feedback on the vendor profile, starting with the most recent. Pay attention to the ones that mention DISCOM coordination, net meter inspection, and subsidy receipt timeline; these are the failure modes that hurt most.

Finish by cross-checking with local references. Ask the vendor for two or three completed installations near your address that you can call or visit. Nearby installations mean the vendor has on-the-ground experience with your local DISCOM inspector and net meter team. If the nearest installation is 200 km away, the vendor is technically registered in your DISCOM but does not really operate there.

What the Rating Actually Measures

MNRE set out the method in its Framework for Vendor Rating Programme under PM-Surya Ghar, dated 24 July 2024. It does not publish a weighted formula for a numbered rank. Instead, the number of eligible rooftop systems a vendor has installed through the national portal decides its tier, and the tier decides which assessments go into the rating.

The consumer feedback score is a simple average of the ratings customers give through the portal and the National Call Centre, including a follow-up two to six months after installation, with weight for how the vendor resolves grievances raised on the portal. Feedback that mentions a subsidy stuck on sloppy paperwork usually traces back to PM Suryaghar portal errors and Aadhaar–bank mismatches that the vendor failed to pre-check.

The quality assessment is a physical inspection of randomly selected sites, 5% of a Tier II vendor’s installations and 2% of a Tier I vendor’s, by Approved System Assessors who check engineering compliance, compliance with relevant standards, quality of installation and materials, safety, and post-installation service. That is where equipment such as a non-ALMM panel or a non-BIS-certified inverter gets caught; BIS inverter certification can also be checked at bis.gov.in. The techno-financial assessment looks at installed capacity over the last three years, manpower, O&M capacity, turnover, net worth and financial ratios, based on documents the vendor uploads on a self-declaration basis.

The overall rating is a simple average of the applicable scores, and the component scores are shown on the portal so you can see where a vendor is strong or weak. Tier III ratings are automatic; Tier II and Tier I need the vendor to apply and pay a rating fee, and until that assessment is done the vendor stays in the lower tier.

Tier 1 / Tier 2 / Tier 3 Vendor Bands and Their Real Implications

MNRE’s tiers are set by portal installation count, not by a rank position, and each band has a different real-world risk profile.

Tier I vendors have more than 1,500 portal installations and usually run dedicated DISCOM coordination teams and standard operating procedures for document pre-checks, which catch Aadhaar–name mismatches, sanctioned-load conflicts, and society-NOC formatting errors before submission. Ask whether their installation crews are full-time employees or subcontractors; full-time crews tend to mean consistent panel mounting and earthing. Heaven Green Energy operates in this band, rank #1 on the portal at the time of writing, 10,000+ installations across 25+ cities, and a 120+ employee team.

Tier II vendors sit in the middle, with more than 250 and up to 1,500 portal installations, decent customer ratings, but sometimes inconsistent execution outside their core city. A Mumbai-based vendor that expanded to Pune in 2024 may do excellent work in Mumbai and patchy work in Pune, and one overall rating can hide that variance. With tier II, your outcome depends on which crew shows up on installation day, ask for the crew lead’s name and verify they have done at least 20 installations in your city.

Tier III and unrated vendors are the highest-risk band, but with two important subgroups. The first subgroup is genuinely small operators in remote DISCOMs, they may be unrated or in Tier III simply because the DISCOM has limited residential demand and they only do 30 installations a year, all of which are perfect. The second subgroup is dormant or under-resourced firms that registered to chase sales leads but never built operational capability. The rating cannot easily distinguish between these two; you have to look at the installation count and the recency of the most recent installation. A small vendor with 28 installations in the past year is genuinely small but active; one with 3 installations in the past year is dormant, avoid.

For a comparison of how rank correlates with vendor verification on the Suryaghar list, the short version is: list inclusion is necessary but not sufficient, and a strong rating backed by local references is what tips the balance.

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How to Search a Specific Vendor by Name vs by City

The portal supports two search modes on the vendor list, and each is useful for a different decision moment. The “by name” search confirms whether a vendor you have already heard of is empanelled and what their rank is. The “by city” search discovers which vendors actually operate near you and is the more powerful mode for an open shortlist.

To search by name, use the search bar at the top of the registered vendor list. Type the vendor’s exact registered business name, partial matches work, but they sometimes return multiple firms with similar names. Match the vendor’s empanelment ID (which they should print on their quote) against the portal record to be sure you have the right firm. A vendor who refuses to share their empanelment ID on a quote is a warning sign on its own.

To search by city, use the “Service Area” dropdown filter. Pick your state, then your city. The portal returns every empanelled vendor that has registered your city as a service area. Compare ratings as in Step 4 above. The three highest-rated vendors are your strongest candidates; request quotes from all three and compare on equipment specification (ALMM tier-1 panel brand, BIS-certified inverter brand, structure material) rather than on price alone. If you would rather skip the portal navigation altogether, our own solar installer near me finder surfaces vetted local options directly.

A combined workflow that works well: search by city first to see the five highest-rated local vendors, then search by name to look up any vendor a friend or family member has recommended, and compare the recommended name’s rating against that list. If the recommended vendor is among them, the friend’s recommendation is validated. If the recommended vendor is unrated or rated well below the local leaders, the friend’s positive experience may have been a one-off and the rating is the safer signal.

Common Mistakes When Reading the Vendor Page

We see five repeat mistakes among consumers who do open the portal but still end up with the wrong vendor. If you want a broader scorecard beyond portal rank alone, our 12-point installer credibility check covers the rest of the diligence. Each one is preventable in under two minutes.

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   Reading the rating average without the detail. A 4.4 average can hide a polarised split. Always read the low-rated feedback and check how much of it there is.
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   Ignoring grievance handling. MNRE's framework gives weight to how fast and how well a vendor resolves grievances raised on the portal. Feedback about unanswered complaints or a subsidy stuck on missing paperwork is the most consumer-relevant signal on the page.
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   Trusting a five-star vendor with twenty installations. Small samples are not statistically meaningful, which is why MNRE leaves vendors with fewer than 50 portal installations unrated. Prefer vendors with a few hundred installations, or ask a smaller one for local references you can check.
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   Choosing a vendor based on one happy customer's review. A single five-star testimonial does not tell you about the rejection rate. Look at the full spread of feedback and how complaints were resolved.
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   Skipping the service area filter. A vendor empanelled in your DISCOM does not always operate in your city. Without the service area filter you risk a vendor whose nearest active installation is 200 km away.
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   Not checking the registration is current. A vendor whose registration has lapsed or been suspended cannot take on new subsidy applications, whatever their sales material says.

For the wider catalogue of rejection causes that low-rank vendors tend to repeat, see our PM Suryaghar rejection reasons guide. The pattern that emerges across rejections is striking: most are avoidable mistakes, Aadhaar–name mismatches, wrong ownership proof, sanctioned-load conflicts, that an experienced vendor’s document pre-check catches in fifteen minutes.

Rank-Based Selection vs Reference-Based Selection

Most homeowners pick a solar installer using one of two methods: a personal reference from a neighbour or family member who recently went solar, or a rank-based shortlist from the portal. Each has merits and weaknesses, and the strongest approach combines them.

A reference is a great starting point, a friend who paid attention to their installation can tell you about the crew’s professionalism, the speed of the document handover, and the post-installation support quality, all of which are real. But the reference is one data point, and your installation outcome is also a function of vendor capacity right now (not last year), of your specific DISCOM, and of how your application paperwork is handled. The rating captures much of this at scale.

Verdict. The right approach is reference-confirmed, rank-validated. Start with the three highest-rated vendors for your DISCOM, ask each for two recent installation references in your city, and pick the vendor where both the rank and the references stack up. A high-rank vendor with good references is the lowest-risk choice. A low-rank vendor with a single glowing reference is the highest-risk choice. Never invert the priority.

How Heaven Green Reached and Holds the #1 Rank

Heaven Green Energy holds the #1 vendor rank on the PM Suryaghar national portal in 2026, with 10,000+ residential installations completed, operations across 25+ Indian cities, and a 120+ employee team that includes EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) specialists, DISCOM liaison officers, and dedicated subsidy coordination managers. The rank is not a marketing claim, it reflects our portal-tracked installations and the feedback of the customers behind them.

What drives our rank position is operational discipline:

• Installation volume: 10,000+ lifetime installations across residential and small-commercial projects, with active monthly throughput above 200 systems.
• On-time commissioning: our standard timeline from feasibility approval to commissioning is 18 to 25 days. Crews are full-time, not subcontracted, which removes the scheduling friction that hurts tier-2 vendors.
• Subsidy DBT success rate: our rejection rate sits around 6% against the national average of approximately 18%. The 12-point gap comes from a pre-submission document pre-check we built after 200+ early-day rejection cases taught us where MNRE actually catches errors.
• Customer complaint ratio: under 2 per 100 installations.
• ALMM and BIS adherence: we only install ALMM tier-1 Adani Solar panels and BIS-certified QBits string inverters with current registration numbers. Every panel and inverter serial is photographed and uploaded to the portal at commissioning, no shortcut, no substitution.

Explore the services that fit your project:

• Residential Solar: 1 to 10 kW rooftop systems with PM Suryaghar subsidy handled end-to-end.
• About Heaven Green: team, certifications, rank position, and the operating principles behind our installations.
• Solar Calculator: see your subsidy and savings for your bill in 60 seconds.
• Contact: request a quote or talk to our pre-installation document review team.

For the broader context of how Heaven Green fits into the national PM Suryaghar process and the policy environment, our PM Suryaghar complete guide walks through subsidy structure, eligibility, and application timelines in detail.

For installers: read about our channel partner programme for installers.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I check a solar vendor’s rank on the PM Suryaghar portal?

Log in at pmsuryaghar.gov.in, pick your state and DISCOM, and open the vendor list. Compare each vendor’s rating, installation count and consumer feedback, open the profiles of your shortlist, and ask each for two or three local references. Under MNRE’s framework, vendors with fewer than 50 portal installations are unrated. The whole verification takes about ten minutes.

Is the PM Suryaghar vendor rank a reliable indicator of installation quality?

It is the strongest public signal available, but not a guarantee. Under MNRE’s Vendor Rating Programme framework (July 2024), the rating is a simple average of consumer feedback and, for vendors with more than 250 portal installations, a site quality assessment and a techno-financial assessment. Vendors need at least 50 portal installations to be rated. Use the rating alongside installation counts, recent feedback and local references.

Which solar vendor holds the #1 rank on the PM Suryaghar portal in 2026?

Heaven Green Energy holds the #1 vendor rank on the PM Suryaghar national portal in 2026, with 10,000+ residential installations across 25+ Indian cities, a 120+ employee team, and a subsidy rejection rate of approximately 6% against the national average of 18%. You can verify the current position yourself by logging into pmsuryaghar.gov.in and checking the vendor list for your DISCOM.

What is the difference between portal registration and vendor rank?

Empanelment is registration on the PM Surya Ghar national portal, which authorises a firm to handle PM Suryaghar applications; PIB counted 6,552 registered vendors as early as July 2024, and it is a low bar to clear. The vendor rating is the performance signal, built from consumer feedback and, for larger vendors, site quality inspections and a techno-financial assessment. A vendor can be registered and still be unrated (fewer than 50 portal installations) or poorly rated. Always check the rating, not just registration.

How often does MNRE update the vendor rank?

MNRE’s Vendor Rating Programme framework does not publish a fixed refresh schedule. Consumer feedback is collected through the portal and the National Call Centre, including a follow-up two to six months after installation, so a vendor’s rating moves as new feedback comes in. Check the rating close to the day you sign, not months earlier.

Can a vendor manipulate or pay for a higher rank on the PM Suryaghar portal?

Not directly. Vendors pay a rating fee to be assessed for Tier II or Tier I, but the score itself comes from customer feedback collected through the portal and the National Call Centre, and from site quality inspections by Approved System Assessors on randomly selected sites. The techno-financial assessment, however, relies on documents the vendor uploads on a self-declaration basis, which is why local references and site visits still matter.

What rank should I look for when choosing a solar installer?

For residential installations, prefer a well-rated vendor with a solid installation record in your DISCOM. Tier I (more than 1,500 portal installations) and Tier II (more than 250) vendors have also passed site quality inspections and a techno-financial assessment. A Tier III vendor (50 to 250) is rated on consumer feedback only, so cross-verify with local references and crew tenure. An unrated vendor (fewer than 50) is high-risk for residential subsidy applications unless it is a genuine small specialist with strong recency in your city.

How do I find vendors who actually operate in my city, not just my DISCOM?

Use the “Service Area” filter on the registered vendor list, then narrow to your city or pincode. The portal returns only vendors who have registered your city as an active service area. Then compare ratings. As an additional check, ask each shortlisted vendor for completed installations near your pincode, if the nearest completed installation is more than 50 km away, the vendor’s local presence is weak even if they are formally empanelled in your DISCOM.