Heaven Green Energy is an authorised channel partner of Adani and a PM Surya Ghar empanelled vendor serving Akola homes. We size your system against your actual MSEDCL bill, install it, file your net-metering application with Mahavitaran, and claim the ₹78,000 central subsidy on your behalf. You sign. We do the running.
Authorised Adani Solar distributor₹78,000 subsidy handled end-to-endMSEDCL net metering filed for youFree survey, no advance payment
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Send your last bill and your pin code. An engineer calls back with system size, cost after subsidy and payback, usually inside two working hours.
Adani, Tata Power and BEST hold licences in Mumbai only, not here
Regulator
MERC
Writes the grid-interactive rooftop and net-metering framework
Solar resource
About 5.5 peak sun hours
Only about 45 rainy days a year, so the clear run is long
Generation
4 to 4.5 units per kW daily
Annual average on a shadow-free roof
Central subsidy
Up to ₹78,000
Residential connections, 3 kW and above
Typical payback
3.5 to 5 years
Residential on-grid
The short answer
Rooftop solar in Akola costs roughly ₹62,000 to ₹78,000 per kW before subsidy. A 3 kW system runs about ₹1.85 lakh to ₹2.32 lakh, falling to ₹1.07 lakh to ₹1.54 lakh after the ₹78,000 PM Surya Ghar subsidy. Each kW yields 4 to 4.5 units daily. MSEDCL, trading as Mahavitaran, handles Akola net metering. Payback lands between three and a half and five years.
Last reviewed 18 September 2026
· Heaven Green Energy engineering team
Price, size and savings
Find your bill. Read across.
Most Akola solar pages either hide the price behind a form or repeat a national average that nobody in Vidarbha actually pays. This table answers the question outright. Find your monthly bill in the left column and read across for size, output, roof area and cost after subsidy.
Indicative Akola market ranges, 2026
Your monthly bill
System
Generates
Roof needed
Cost after subsidy
Payback
Up to ₹1,800
2 kW1–2 BHK, one AC used sparingly
240–270units/month
~200 sq ft
₹70,000 – ₹1.00 lakh₹1.30 lakh–₹1.60 lakh before ₹60,000 subsidy
3.5–4.5 years
₹2,000–₹3,500
3 kWBest valueThe largest system that still earns the full ₹78,000
360–405units/month
~300 sq ft
₹1.07 lakh – ₹1.54 lakh₹1.85 lakh–₹2.32 lakh before ₹78,000 subsidy
3.5–4.5 years
₹3,500–₹6,000
5 kW3 BHK running two ACs through summer
600–675units/month
~500 sq ft
₹2.14 lakh – ₹2.74 lakh₹2.92 lakh–₹3.52 lakh before ₹78,000 subsidy
₹4.54 lakh – ₹5.67 lakh₹5.32 lakh–₹6.45 lakh before ₹78,000 subsidy
4–5 years
Above ₹13,000
25 kW+Commercial connections, on accelerated depreciation
3,000–3,400units/month
Site-specific
₹11.00 lakh – ₹13.80 lakh₹11.00 lakh–₹13.80 lakh, no subsidy
3–4.5 years
Indicative Akola market ranges for 2026, covering Tier-1 modules, a branded inverter, galvanised structure, protection devices and installation. These are not a Heaven Green quotation. Subsidy amounts are the central PM Surya Ghar figures published on pmsuryaghar.gov.in. Generation assumes a shadow-free, roughly south-facing roof.
Size against units, not rupees. Take the units figure from your last Mahavitaran bill, not the amount. Units are what an array cancels, and the rupee total moves with the slab you land in. Shadow-free is the operative phrase in the roof column. In the peths and around Tower Chowk, plots are narrow and buildings sit close. A neighbour's parapet or a water tank shading the array for two hours a day costs more than people expect. An elevated structure earns its extra steel there.
The 3 kW cliff is real. Nothing is paid above 3 kW, so the subsidy covers roughly a third of a 3 kW system and closer to an eighth of a 10 kW one. If your bill sits on the boundary, 3 kW returns more rupees per rupee spent.
The Akola-specific warning is the mount. Local quotes get cheap by bolting modules flat to the terrace and skipping clearance. That reads as a saving in March, then costs you generation every May for the next twenty-five years in one of India's hottest cities. Ask for the mounting height and the Bill of Materials in writing. Without both, you are comparing numbers, not systems.
Why there is no rupee saving in that table
There is no rupee saving in that table, deliberately. What you save turns on the slab rate you personally pay, and MSEDCL residential slabs step up sharply as consumption rises. An Akola household running three ACs through a 42°C May therefore saves far more per unit than the same house in December. Akola bills swing harder across the year than most Indian cities precisely because the summer is so severe, which makes an averaged national savings figure close to useless here. Bring your last twelve bills to the free survey and we work your exact figure out in front of you, using your own slab. Prefer to work it out yourself first? Put your bill into our
solar savings calculator. No phone number required.
This is what we actually build.
Heaven Green Energy installations across India. Not stock photography, and not
renders. Your Akola system is built to the same specification.
Maximum central subsidy for a residential rooftop system.
₹30,000 per kW for the first 2 kW
₹18,000 for the 3rd kW
Nothing paid above 3 kW
Credited directly to your bank account
We file the entire claim for you
How the subsidy works
Five steps, and we run four of them.
Anyone advertising a bigger "Akola subsidy" is selling something that does not exist. PM Surya Ghar is a central scheme, so the amount is identical in Akola, Akot and Mumbai. What changes by city is who processes your file, and here that is MSEDCL.
1
Register on the National Portal
You register at pmsuryaghar.gov.in using your MSEDCL consumer number, mobile, Aadhaar and address. We sit with you for this step, because a consumer number that does not match Mahavitaran's records is the commonest reason an application stalls for weeks.
2
Apply for feasibility, then pick your vendor
MSEDCL checks the application against your sanctioned load and the local transformer. You then choose an empanelled vendor. Heaven Green Energy is empanelled, so we map straight onto your application without a second registration.
3
Install after approval, never before
Modules bought and fitted before feasibility clears can disqualify the claim entirely. We supply Adani modules with traceable serial numbers, then hand over a Bill of Materials and the full warranty schedule.
4
Inspection and net meter
MSEDCL inspects the installation and fits the bidirectional meter, which generates the commissioning certificate on the portal. Our engineer attends the inspection so queries are answered on site rather than by letter.
5
Claim and credit
We file the claim once the certificate issues, and the government credits the subsidy directly to your bank account. It never passes through us. Treat any Akola vendor who offers to collect it on your behalf as a warning sign.
If you are a business, this section does not apply
PM Surya Ghar covers residential consumers only. An Akola ginning unit, oil mill, dal mill or shop cannot claim it. Businesses claim accelerated depreciation on the asset instead, which for a taxpaying firm often returns more than the residential subsidy would have paid.
MSEDCL (Mahavitaran)
Net metering: who you actually file with.
Net metering is where rival Akola pages go wrong, and naming the wrong licensee costs you every export credit you were counting on.
Akola is supplied by Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL), which trades as Mahavitaran. Your rooftop application, your feasibility approval and your bidirectional meter all run through the local Akola circle and divisional offices of MSEDCL. There is no separate Vidarbha utility and no private distribution franchisee operating in Akola. That is worth saying plainly: franchisee arrangements have existed elsewhere in Maharashtra, and old blog posts still confuse people. MSEDCL is a state-owned company formed in 2005 when the old Maharashtra State Electricity Board was unbundled, and it supplies almost the entire state.
Maharashtra does contain genuine exceptions, but all of them sit in Mumbai: Adani Electricity Mumbai, Tata Power and BEST hold distribution licences there. A page that points an Akola consumer at an Adani or Tata Power rooftop portal has sent you to a company with no licence in this district. It is a small error that wastes weeks.
The commercial terms come from the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC), not from the discom and not from us. Under MERC's grid-interactive rooftop framework, your system is capped at your sanctioned load in kW, or contract demand in kVA. It also has to fit the spare capacity on your distribution transformer. Every consumer category may apply, residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural alike. Exported units are credited against consumption on the same connection, and consumers carrying arrears are not eligible until those dues clear.
1
Application
Consumer details, sanctioned load, system rating, the single-line diagram and equipment datasheets go to MSEDCL through the Mahavitaran rooftop portal, under your own consumer number.
Filed by us
2
Technical feasibility
Mahavitaran tests whether your sanctioned load and your street transformer carry the proposed capacity. Oversized systems fail at this gate, which is why we size against sanctioned load on the first visit.
MSEDCL
3
Installation and inspection
We install to the approved drawing. MSEDCL then inspects earthing, protection, isolation and metering compliance before anything is energised, with our engineer on site.
Us, then MSEDCL
4
Bidirectional meter
Your meter is swapped for a bidirectional net meter and the commissioning certificate issues. Export credits start from that date, not from the day the modules went up.
MSEDCL
Not a home?
Solar for Akola's businesses.
Running a ginning line, an oil mill, a dal mill or a clinic rather than a home? The economics work differently and this page is written for homeowners.
Akola is a cotton and agro-processing town. Cotton ginning and pressing, oil processing and agro-based small and medium units make up the industrial base. Alongside them sit the trading houses around the old market quarters and the goods traffic running through Shivni-Shivar. None of those connections can claim PM Surya Ghar. They claim accelerated depreciation on the asset instead, which for a taxpaying business often beats the residential subsidy outright. They can also avoid capital outlay altogether under OPEX or RESCO models.
Ginning and milling loads are seasonal and daytime-heavy, the single best match for solar there is. The machinery runs while the sun is up, so almost every unit is self-consumed rather than exported. Akola also carries a large institutional load. Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, the agricultural university serving all eleven Vidarbha districts, sits here with its research stations and hostels. College, hostel and hospital roofs behave much like industrial ones on a solar business case. We deliver turnkey commercial and industrial EPC across Akola, Akot, Balapur, Murtizapur and Patur, with structural design to wind-load standards, MSEDCL registration and long-term O&M.
We have built solar since 2017 and delivered more than 10,000 installations across India, from single rooftops to industrial plants running into the hundreds of kilowatts. Four things separate us from a local Akola quote.
✓
Authorised Adani Solar distributorGenuine Adani modules with traceable serial numbers and the full manufacturer warranty. No grey-market stock, and no brand that has disappeared by year eight when you finally need a claim honoured.
✓
We build our own invertersQbits is our in-house inverter brand, so service on the component most likely to need it runs through us rather than through an importer and a queue in another state.
✓
The paperwork is our jobPortal registration, vendor mapping, MSEDCL feasibility and net metering, the inspection and the subsidy claim all sit with our team. You sign the forms and attend the survey.
✓
Nothing to pay for the surveyThe survey and written proposal cost nothing and commit you to nothing. You keep the Bill of Materials, generation estimate and payback figure, and you are free to price them against any Akola rival.
Where we are based
Heaven Green Energy is headquartered at Mota Varachha, Surat. We have no branch office in Akola and will not pretend otherwise. We serve Akola and the wider Vidarbha region through our channel partner network and field engineering team, who run the surveys, supervise installation and handle MSEDCL coordination on the ground. We say this before you sign rather than after.
How we work
From first call to a spinning net meter.
Four steps to a spinning net meter, including the parts that belong to MSEDCL rather than to us.
01
Free site survey
We measure shadow-free area, check the roof structure, read your sanctioned load and twelve months of Mahavitaran consumption, and log shading from tanks, parapets and neighbouring buildings.
Day 1–2
02
Written proposal
System size, layout, Bill of Materials with makes and models, generation estimate at Akola irradiance, mounting clearance, your subsidy and your payback. No obligation attached.
Day 3–5
03
Applications and installation
We file with the national portal and with MSEDCL, then install once feasibility clears. A typical Akola residential roof takes two to four days on site.
Day 5–15
04
Inspection, meter, subsidy
MSEDCL inspects and fits the bidirectional meter, the commissioning certificate issues, and we file your claim. The government pays the subsidy into your account.
Set by MSEDCL
What Akola weather does to a solar system
Akola is one of the hottest cities in India, and that single fact should shape your whole specification. Three local conditions change the engineering here, and heat is not simply one item among three. It is the condition that decides whether your array delivers what the proposal promised, and it is the one Akola quotes most often ignore. A design copied from a Gujarat coastal roof underperforms badly on this plateau.
Extreme heat and module derating
IMD's 1991–2020 normals put Akola's mean daily maximum in May at 42.4°C, with a recorded high of 47.8°C and 47.2°C in June. Module output falls as cell temperature rises, typically around 0.3 to 0.4% per degree above rating conditions, and cell temperature on a flat terrace runs well above air temperature. Clearance under the modules, open rail ends, correctly derated DC cable and an inverter mounted in shade rather than on a west wall are what recover those units. Flush mounting is the most expensive saving available in Akola, and it is the first thing a cut-price quote takes out. Ask for the clearance figure in millimetres and hold the vendor to it on site.
Eight dry months and a heavy soiling load
Akola records only about 44.9 rainy days a year, so glass goes months without a proper wash. Black cotton soil dust, the market and ginning traffic through town and the dry cropping cycle across the district all put a film on the modules. Soiling is the most underrated cause of weak output because it is invisible from the ground. Akola roofs want cleaning every two to three weeks from February through to the monsoon break. A tap plus a soft brush on the terrace is worth specifying at design stage rather than improvising later. Our AMC covers it.
A short monsoon delivered in hard bursts
The annual total is modest at about 783 mm, but it arrives across roughly 45 rainy days between June and September, with July alone averaging 215 mm. That is high-intensity rain on few days, which tests water ingress rather than merely dimming the light. Junction boxes, DC cable glands, conduit entries and roof penetrations decide whether an array survives ten monsoons. Insist on properly rated enclosures and downward-facing glands.
Service area
Areas of Akola we install in.
We install across Akola city, the villages brought inside the municipal limits when the corporation boundary was extended, and the taluka towns around the district. An area missing from this list is not one we refuse, so call and ask.
These are real Heaven Green customers, shown with the city each system was actually installed in. We do not relabel a review to whichever city page you happen to be reading.
★★★★★
250 kW industrial system on our chemical plant. Generation has been 8% above estimate every month. Their O&M team is responsive.
S
Sanjay Joshi
Industrial · Bharuch · 250 kW
★★★★★
PM Kusum scheme, 7.5 HP solar pump. Diesel cost zero now. Their team coordinated with the Krishi office for the subsidy file end-to-end.
B
Bharatbhai Chaudhari
Agriculture · Banaskantha · 7.5 HP
★★★★★
10 kW on our farmhouse with battery backup. No more relying on the unreliable rural grid. Their AMC visits are on schedule, panels stay clean.
H
Hardik Solanki
Residential · Junagadh · 10 kW
Before you sign
Six things to check on any Akola quote.
Including ours. Take this list to every vendor you speak to.
Confirm the vendor names MSEDCL, trading as Mahavitaran. It is the only distribution licensee in Akola, and a quote that hedges on the utility usually has not filed one here before.
Check the vendor is not pointing you at Adani Electricity, Tata Power or BEST. All three are Mumbai licensees with no licence in Akola, and following them wastes weeks on the wrong portal.
Ask for the mounting clearance in writing before anything else. Akola's mean daily maximum in May is 42.4°C and the record is 47.8°C, so a flush-bolted array gives up output every summer it stands there.
Get a written Bill of Materials naming module make and wattage, inverter make and model, structure specification, cable gauge and protection devices. A quote without one is a number, not an offer.
Check the proposed capacity fits your sanctioned load. MERC caps the system at sanctioned load, so an oversized quote fails feasibility. Raising sanctioned load is a separate MSEDCL application with its own timeline.
Never pay a vendor to collect your subsidy. The government credits it straight to your bank account once MSEDCL issues the commissioning certificate, so anyone wanting it routed through them should be walked away from.
Questions
Solar in Akola: every question answered.
17 questions Akola buyers actually search for, including the ones
competing pages leave out. Grouped so you can skip to what you need.
Cost & subsidy
What is the price of solar panel installation in Akola in 2026?
Roughly ₹62,000 to ₹78,000 per kW installed, before subsidy. A 3 kW system runs about ₹1.85 lakh to ₹2.32 lakh and a 5 kW about ₹2.92 lakh to ₹3.52 lakh. These are indicative Akola market ranges for a complete installed system, not a Heaven Green quotation.
How much subsidy do I get for rooftop solar in Akola?
Up to ₹78,000 under PM Surya Ghar, for residential connections of 3 kW and above. The slabs are ₹30,000 per kW for the first two kilowatts and ₹18,000 for the third. Nothing is paid above 3 kW. The amount is central, so Akola gets the same as anywhere else.
Is there a separate Maharashtra or Akola state subsidy on top?
No. PM Surya Ghar is a central scheme and the figure does not vary by state or city. Any Akola vendor advertising an extra local top-up is either describing a different scheme, such as PM Kusum for agricultural pumps, or misleading you. Ask which scheme, in writing.
What does a cheap Akola solar quote usually leave out?
Structure and protection, almost always. Galvanising thickness, mounting clearance, cable gauge, earthing and surge protection separate the bottom of each price band from the top. In Akola the clearance matters most, because a flush-mounted array runs hot and generates less every summer.
Net metering & DISCOM
Which electricity company handles net metering in Akola?
MSEDCL, the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited, which trades as Mahavitaran. Your application, feasibility approval and bidirectional meter all go through its local Akola circle and divisional offices. Adani, Tata Power and BEST hold licences in Mumbai only and cannot process anything here.
How large a system will MSEDCL approve in Akola?
Up to your sanctioned load in kW, or contract demand in kVA, under the MERC framework. It must also fit the spare capacity on your distribution transformer. Oversized proposals fail at the feasibility stage, so we size against your sanctioned load on the first visit.
How long does MSEDCL net metering take in Akola?
Feasibility approval usually returns within a few weeks of filing, and the meter change follows inspection after installation. The timeline belongs to MSEDCL, not to us, so we will not promise you a date we do not control. We file early and chase it.
What happens to the units I export to the grid?
They are credited against consumption on the same connection under MERC's net-metering framework, so your billed units fall rather than a cheque arriving. Credits start from the date the commissioning certificate issues, not from the day the modules went up on the roof.
Sizing & performance
How many units will a solar system generate in Akola?
Around 4 to 4.5 units per kW per day as an annual average on a shadow-free roof, which works out near 5.5 peak sun hours. A 3 kW system therefore gives roughly 360 to 405 units a month and a 5 kW system 600 to 675 units, averaged across the year.
Does Akola's extreme summer heat reduce solar output?
Yes, and it is the main engineering issue here. Output falls roughly 0.3 to 0.4% for every degree the cell sits above rating conditions, and Akola's May mean daily maximum is 42.4°C with a record of 47.8°C. Clearance under the modules and a shaded inverter recover most of that loss.
What size system suits my Akola electricity bill?
Match units, not rupees. Bills up to ₹1,800 usually suit 2 kW, ₹2,000 to ₹3,500 suits 3 kW, ₹3,500 to ₹6,000 suits 5 kW and ₹6,000 to ₹13,000 suits 10 kW. Bring twelve months of Mahavitaran bills, because a single summer bill overstates your annual need.
How much roof area do I need in Akola?
About 200 sq ft for 2 kW, 300 sq ft for 3 kW, 500 sq ft for 5 kW and 700 to 1,000 sq ft for 10 kW, all shadow-free. On the narrow plots in the old peths an elevated structure often recovers usable area that a flat layout loses to parapets and tanks.
Installation & service
How long does installation take in Akola?
Two to four days on site for a typical residential roof, once MSEDCL feasibility has cleared. The full sequence from first survey to a running net meter usually takes a few weeks. Most of that wait belongs to the discom approval and meter change, not the build.
How often should Akola panels be cleaned?
Every two to three weeks from February until the monsoon breaks, then monthly through the wetter months. Akola sees only about 45 rainy days a year, so dust sits on the glass for long stretches. Our annual maintenance contract covers cleaning and performance checks.
Do you install for farmhouses and villages around Akola?
Yes. We cover the villages inside the municipal limits and the taluka towns, including Akot, Telhara, Balapur, Barshitakli, Murtizapur, Patur, Borgaon Manju and Dahihanda. Rural sites with weak grid supply often want battery backup, which we quote separately from the grid-tied system.
About Heaven Green
Does Heaven Green Energy have an office in Akola?
No. Our only office is at Mota Varachha, Surat. We serve Akola through our channel partner network and field engineering team, who run the surveys, supervise installation and handle MSEDCL coordination on the ground. We state that before you sign rather than after.
Why choose Heaven Green Energy over a local Akola installer?
We have built solar since 2017 with more than 10,000 installations, and we are an authorised channel partner of Adani. We also manufacture our own Qbits inverters, so service on the component most likely to fail runs through us. Compare our Bill of Materials against any local quote.
