Patan's businesses mostly work daylight hours: agro-processing, clinics, colleges, shops and the patola looms. That is the load pattern a rooftop array covers best.
The town is the trading point for a dry-farming taluka. The Patan market yard handles cumin, castor, mustard, fennel, ajwain, wheat and bajra, and the GIDC estate off Station Road holds agro-processing units, including isabgul (psyllium) cleaners. Cleaning lines, graders, elevators and cold rooms run through the working day, so a shed roof full of panels feeds machines on site rather than exporting to the grid.
Size against twelve months, not the busy season. Cumin and isabgul arrivals come after the winter harvest, and a unit that runs hard from February to May can sit lightly loaded through the monsoon. A plant sized to peak-season demand exports a large share of its output in the quiet months. We read a full year of bills before proposing a shed system.
The other daytime loads are institutional. Patan is the seat of Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, and the colleges, hospitals and nursing homes that come with a district headquarters run lights, lifts and air-conditioning through office hours. Hotels and guest houses that serve Rani ki Vav visitors carry a steady cooling load too.
None of these connections qualifies for PM Surya Ghar. Read accelerated depreciation on solar for the tax route, and zero down payment solar if you would rather keep cash for stock in the buying season.
- Agro-processing and isabgul units in the GIDC estate off Station Road
- Traders and warehouses around the Patan market yard
- Colleges and hostels near Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University
- Hospitals, nursing homes and diagnostic centres in the city
- Hotels and guest houses serving Rani ki Vav and Sahasralinga Tank visitors
Farmers follow a different route. Gujarat split agricultural feeders from village feeders under the Jyotigram scheme, and a pump on a farm feeder is not a PM Surya Ghar connection. For a solar pump see our PM-KUSUM page and the GEDA guide to KUSUM in Gujarat.