Heaven Green Energy plans and installs rooftop solar for homes, shops, clinics and farmhouses in Tharad, the headquarters town of the new Vav-Tharad district. We work from your UGVCL bill and build the array for desert-edge heat and dust. Then we lodge your PM Surya Ghar claim and carry the net-metering file through UGVCL until the bidirectional meter is sealed.
Share a recent UGVCL bill and tell us what sits on your terrace. We reply with a system size, a generation estimate for Tharad, the subsidy arithmetic and the documents UGVCL will ask for. It costs nothing.
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The short answer
A 3 kW rooftop system in Tharad costs roughly ₹1,80,000 to ₹2,25,000 installed, and 5 kW roughly ₹2,85,000 to ₹3,45,000, before the PM Surya Ghar subsidy of up to ₹78,000. Each kilowatt yields 4 to 4.5 units a day across the year. UGVCL handles net metering for the town. A 5 kW home system pays back in 4–5 years.
Last reviewed 2 October 2026 · Heaven Green Energy engineering team
Start with the bill column. Locate the band your usual UGVCL bill falls in, then follow that row to the system size it points to. The row also gives the installed price range before subsidy, the monthly units a Tharad roof should give, the shade-free area needed and the payback period.
| Your monthly bill | System | Generates | Roof needed | Cost after subsidy | Payback |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Up to ₹1,800 | 2 kW A single-storey house in the older lanes of Tharad town, lights, fans and one cooler | 240–270units/month | ~200 sq ft | ₹65,000 – ₹95,000 ₹1.25 lakh–₹1.55 lakh before ₹60,000 subsidy | 3.5–4.5 years |
| ₹2,000–₹3,500 | 3 kW Best value A family home in Gayatri or Ambika Nagar Society that wants the full ₹78,000 claim | 360–405units/month | ~300 sq ft | ₹1.02 lakh – ₹1.47 lakh ₹1.80 lakh–₹2.25 lakh before ₹78,000 subsidy | 3.5–4.5 years |
| ₹3,500–₹6,000 | 5 kW A bungalow near Highway Char Rasta running two air conditioners through May | 600–675units/month | ~500 sq ft | ₹2.07 lakh – ₹2.67 lakh ₹2.85 lakh–₹3.45 lakh before ₹78,000 subsidy | 4–5 years |
| ₹6,000–₹13,000 | 10 kW A joint family in Dodgam or Mota Mesra, or a farmhouse with its own residential meter | 1,200–1,350units/month | 700–1,000 sq ft | ₹4.42 lakh – ₹5.52 lakh ₹5.20 lakh–₹6.30 lakh before ₹78,000 subsidy | 4–5 years |
| Above ₹13,000 | 25 kW+ A hospital on Deesa Highway Road, a cold store or a trader's godown near the market yard | 3,000–3,400units/month | Site-specific | ₹10.75 lakh – ₹13.50 lakh ₹10.75 lakh–₹13.50 lakh, no subsidy | 3–4.5 years |
These figures are indicative market ranges for Tharad in 2026. They are not a Heaven Green Energy quotation. Your surveyed price depends on whether the roof is an RCC slab, a metal shed or a village house terrace. It also depends on how tall the structure must stand, the cable run to the meter and any slab repair. Subsidy figures follow the PM Surya Ghar slabs on pmsuryaghar.gov.in and apply only to residential connections. Rooftop solar systems attract 5% GST on the equipment since 22 Sep 2025. A supply-and-install contract taxes 30% of the value as installation service at 18%, so the blended rate on a typical quote is about 8.9%.
Your subsidy is fixed once you pass 3 kW. The scheme pays ₹30,000 a kW for the first two kilowatts and ₹18,000 for the third, so ₹78,000 is the ceiling. Kilowatts four and five are your money alone. Buy them if your units justify them, not because a salesman said bigger is better.
Tharad roofs need a taller, heavier frame than the cheapest quotes allow for. Hot dry winds come off the desert in April and May, and the pre-monsoon storms in June arrive with dust. A frame built from thin, poorly galvanised sections looks identical on day one and starts rusting at the joints within a few seasons. Ask for the section size and galvanising thickness in writing.
Check the paperwork as closely as the hardware. Tharad sits a long way from Gujarat's big installer hubs, and out-of-town crews sometimes vanish after commissioning. The invoice should list every module and inverter serial number, and the warranty should be registered in your name before the last instalment leaves your account.
This page carries no promised rupee saving, on purpose. Your saving turns on your UGVCL tariff category, fixed charges, sanctioned load and how much power you use while the sun is up. A Tharad household that runs coolers at noon saves differently from one that is out at the fields all day and exports most of its output. Show us twelve months of bills and we will work out the saving from your own units, not from a brochure. Prefer to work it out yourself first? Put your bill into our solar savings calculator. No phone number required.
Heaven Green Energy installations across India. Not stock photography, and not renders. Your Tharad system is built to the same specification.
PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana
Maximum central subsidy for a residential rooftop system.
PM Surya Ghar refunds up to ₹78,000 to a household that installs rooftop solar through a portal-registered vendor and gets a net-metered connection commissioned. The refund reaches your bank account after commissioning. It never appears as a discount on the invoice.
Sign up at pmsuryaghar.gov.in with the UGVCL consumer number printed on your bill. Your name and address must match the UGVCL record, so copy them from the bill rather than from your Aadhaar card.
Enter the capacity you want. UGVCL checks it against your sanctioned load and the spare capacity on the local transformer. In village pockets on long rural lines this check matters more, so we size before we file.
The subsidy only follows work by a vendor registered on the portal. We upload the module and inverter details and the installation photographs against your application so the file keeps moving.
UGVCL fits the bidirectional meter and the electrical inspector clears the installation. Only then does the portal issue the commissioning certificate, and nothing is paid before that certificate exists.
Add your bank account and a cancelled cheque on the portal. The ministry transfers the money directly. Most Gujarat claims settle within 30 to 45 days of the commissioning certificate.
Shops, clinics, cold stores, cotton and grain traders and milk cooperatives in Tharad are not eligible for PM Surya Ghar. A business claims accelerated depreciation instead, and for a profitable firm that can be worth more than the residential cap. Farm pumps sit under a different scheme again: see the PM-KUSUM route below and ask your accountant to compare.
Net metering lets the units you export at noon cancel units you import at night. Without it, surplus generation leaves your roof for nothing.
Tharad is supplied by Uttar Gujarat Vij Company Limited, UGVCL, the GUVNL company for north Gujarat. Becoming the headquarters of Vav-Tharad district in 2025 did not change the licensee; the town stayed inside UGVCL's Palanpur Circle. UGVCL's own Palanpur Circle tender page has listed a Tharad-2 sub-division working under Deesa Division 2. UGVCL tenders issued in 2025 and 2026 also refer to a Tharad Division Office under the same circle. Offices are being reorganised around the new district, so trust the sub-division printed on your current bill over any old list.
No private licensee works here. Torrent Power distributes in Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Surat city and Dahej, not in this corner of the state. DGVCL covers south Gujarat, MGVCL central Gujarat and PGVCL Saurashtra and Kutch, even though Kutch district begins just across the Rann west of Vav. A Tharad quote that names PGVCL because the town looks close to Kutch on a map was written by someone who did not check.
GERC writes the rules. Your rooftop capacity is capped at your sanctioned load. Residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural consumers may all apply. Exported units are set against imported units in each billing cycle, and any surplus is settled under the GERC order in force on the day your system is commissioned.
We lodge the application with your consumer number, sanctioned load and proposed capacity. Then we follow the feasibility approval at the sub-division named on your bill, whether that is a town office or a rural one.
We file itAfter installation we submit the test report with module and inverter serials, the earthing layout and a single-line diagram. Incomplete reports are the usual reason a meter date slips.
We file itUGVCL staff fit and seal the bidirectional meter and the electrical inspector visits separately. We are on site for both, so a query about protection or earthing is answered the same day.
UGVCLWe complete the net-metering agreement with you. The following UGVCL bill shows imported, exported and net units on separate lines. Compare it with the inverter app and call us if they disagree.
Us, then UGVCL
Tharad's trade happens in daylight. The market yard, the hospitals along Deesa Highway Road, the jewellery shops and the cold stores all draw most of their power while the panels are producing.
Most money in Tharad comes off the land. The APMC market yard is where farmers from Tharad, Vav and Suigam talukas auction castor, mustard and cumin. The traders around it run godowns, cleaning machines and offices through the working day. Village milk cooperatives chill milk morning and evening, and cold storage near the town holds produce through the heat. The town also supports a jewellery bazaar and small diamond-polishing workshops, an echo of Surat's trade, plus a cluster of private hospitals on Deesa Highway Road around Ambika Nagar Society. Each of these loads peaks between ten and five, which is exactly when a rooftop array delivers.
Business connections fall outside PM Surya Ghar. The tax route usually serves them better: read accelerated depreciation on solar to see how the write-off works. Read zero down payment solar if you would rather keep your working capital for the crop season. Farmers looking at pumps rather than rooftops should start with PM-KUSUM solar pumps and the Gujarat GEDA guide to KUSUM.
We have installed since 2017 and passed 10,000 installations in Gujarat. At that volume we know how UGVCL files move, our hardware supply is steady and the company that signs your warranty will still be answering calls years from now.
Heaven Green Energy has a single office, at Mota Varachha in Surat. There is no Tharad branch, no showroom in the district and no local phone line, and we would sooner say that now than after you sign. We serve Tharad and the wider North Gujarat region through our channel partner network and field engineering team. They carry out the roof survey, supervise installation and deal with UGVCL on the ground.
Four stages take you from a phone call to a UGVCL bill that charges you only for net units.
Send photos of your last two UGVCL bills. We read your units, not just the amount, and give an indicative size and price band before any visit.
Same dayAn engineer measures the shade-free area, checks the slab and plans the cable route to the meter. You receive the generation estimate, frame specification and subsidy working in writing.
3–5 daysFrame, modules, inverter, earthing, surge protection and monitoring go in. Each stage is photographed because both the portal and the inspector ask for proof.
2–4 days on siteUGVCL fits the bidirectional meter, the inspector signs off, the portal issues the commissioning certificate and the subsidy reaches your bank.
3–7 weeksTharad has a hot semi-arid climate. Long-run averages put May afternoons around 41°C, January nights around 12°C and annual rainfall at roughly 450 mm, most of it in July and August. Heatwave days go higher, and the Gujarati Wikipedia entry for the taluka records summers above 46°C. Plenty of sun, then, but hard on hardware in three ways.
Module output falls as cell temperature climbs, and a Tharad terrace in May runs far hotter than the air above it. We raise the array off the slab so the hot loo wind can at least carry heat away from the back sheet. The inverter goes on a shaded north or east wall, never a sun-baked west one, so it does not throttle itself at three in the afternoon.
With the Rann to the west and dry fields all round, fine dust settles on glass within days in the dry months. Wash every two to three weeks from March to June. Use soft tap water or stored rainwater, not raw borewell water. Groundwater around Tharad is often brackish, and the salt dries into a white film that blocks light and etches the glass coating.
The monsoon is brief here, so cloud costs less annual output than it does in south Gujarat. The danger is wind. Dust storms and pre-monsoon squalls in June hit an exposed terrace from any side. The frame must be anchored into the slab with chemical fasteners, not just weighted down with concrete blocks.
We take work in Tharad town, in the villages served from the Tharad and Dhima post offices, and in the other taluka towns of Vav-Tharad district. Place names follow India Post spellings. If your village is not listed, call anyway.
Highway Char Rasta · Deesa Highway Road · Gayatri Society · Ambika Nagar Society · Tharad–Sanchore Highway · Maheshwari Society · Dhanera Cross Road · APMC market yard area
Asodar · Bevta · Bhordu · Changda · Charda · Chudmer · Dodgam · Dudhava · Jamda · Kamali · Khengarpura · Khoda · Lalpur · Luvana · Madal · Malupur · Mota Mesra · Moti Pavad · Piluda · Sanavia · Undrana · Vadgamda · Valadar · Vami
Dhima · Bhorol · Chuva · Daiyap · Gadsisar · Idhata · Karbun · Naroli · Rampura · Savapura · Sherau · Vaghasan · Duva · Ghodasar · Morthal
Vav · Suigam · Bhabhar · Deodar (Diyodar) · Lakhani · Rah
Each review comes from a real Heaven Green Energy customer and shows the place where that system was installed. We never retag a review with the name of the town page you are reading, so none of these is labelled Tharad.
Zero advance, just like they promised. EMI through their finance partner, installation done before the first payment was due. Bills practically gone.
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.
80 kW on our hospital rooftop. Diesel backup running time cut by 60%. Heaven Green's structural design cleared all wind-load checks first time.
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