The situation
Verdant Solar installs 3 to 10 kW residential systems across three Kerala districts, roughly sixty a month. Sixty applications a month with a 64% return rate is close to forty round trips, each one a customer asking why their subsidy has not arrived.
What changed
Nothing about the applications themselves. Verdant catalogued every return notice from the previous year, found that five reasons covered 88% of them, and turned those five into a check that runs before a packet can be marked ready.
The inverter model list changes without notice. Verdant's check reads the list at submission time rather than at quotation time, which is where the 23% was coming from.
We assumed the returns were random. They were five things, over and over, for a year.
Founder, Verdant Solar
Priya tracks interconnection and subsidy policy across Indian states and helps installers build packets that clear the first time.