The Kerala State Electricity Regulatory Commission has released the KSERC (Renewable Energy and Related Matters) Regulations, 2025, which bring important changes for prosumers and electricity consumers.
The rules will be effective from November 6, 2025, to March 31, 2030. The new billing system will start on January 1, 2026.
All the consumers and prosumers who got the feasibility approval till November 5, 2025, will come under the ambit of the new rules.
The updated regulations allow the NMS to be applied up to 20 kW for domestic consumers, up to 500 kW for industrial consumers, and up to 3,000 kW for agricultural consumers. NMS is also allowed up to 500 kW for common service connections in multi-storey domestic apartments.
The regulations clarify grid support charges, which will be collected only on the energy drawn from the grid that exceeds the banked solar energy. Prosumers with systems up to 10 kW are exempt from these charges.
For systems above 10 kW, charges will be ₹0.50 per unit for the first 300 units and ₹1 per unit thereafter. All agricultural consumers with renewable energy systems are fully exempt from grid support charges.
It also provides for emerging technologies, including Vehicle to Grid (V2G), Virtual Net Metering (VNM), and Virtual Power Plants (VPP).
The new rules come after common criticism of earlier drafts, which had stricter net metering limits, higher grid charges, and rules for battery storage.
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