Government of Bihar,

1 · Preamble

2 · Legislative Framework of the Policy

3 · Scope

4 · Operative Period

1 · 1. Solar Parks

1 · 2. Other Ground Mounted

1 · 3. Elevated Solar Project

1 · 4. Floating Solar

1 · 5. Agri Voltaic Solar

1 · 6. Canal Top/Bank Solar

1 · 7. Geothermal Power Plant

1 · 8. Biomass Power Plant

1 · 9. Waste to Energy

1 · 10. Wind Power Plant

2 · Distributed RE(On-Grid)

2 · 1 Rooftop Solar

2 · 2 Small Hydro Power

2 · 3 Other Solar Power Plants

2 · 4 Solar Agriculture (Agri

2 · 5 Biomass Power Plant

2 · 6 Waste to Energy

2 · 7 Wind Power Plant

3 · Off grid RE

3 · 1 Mini and micro grids

3 · 2 DRE (Solar for

3 · 3 Standalone Solar Pumps

4 · Energy Storage (MWH)

4 · 1 Pumped Storage

4 · 2 Grid Level Battery

9 · 1 Solar PV Projects

9 · 1.1 Rooftop Solar PV Projects

9 · 1.2

9 · 1.3

9 · 2 Bioenergy/ Waste to Energy Projects

9 · 3

9 · 4

9 · 5 Pumped Storage Projects

9 · 6 Hybrid RE Projects (Solar/Wind + Other Renewable Energy technologies)

9 · 7 Other RE technologies

10 · Useful Life of RE Projects

11 · Incentives

11 · 1 Applicability

11 · 2 Electricity Duty

11 · 3 State Goods and Service Tax (SGST)

11 · 4 Open Access

11 · 5 Stamp Duty

1899 · under section 9 (1) & under section 78 of registration act 1908 in state Gazette. If any existing units

11 · 6 Free Power and Local Area Development Fund (LADF)

11 · 7 Land Conversion Charges

11 · 8 Exemption from transmission and wheeling charges

11 · 9 STU Charges

11 · 10 Banking Charges

12 · months of the year. Banking charges and other clauses will be applicable for all RE projects

11 · 11 Tariff Mechanism

11 · 12 Single Window Facility

11 · 13 Carbon Credit/Carbon Pricing

11 · 14 Deemed Industry Status

11 · 15 Promotion of setting up of RE based Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Stations

11 · 16 Must Run Status

11 · 17 Minimum Generation Compensation

12 · Penalty for Non-compliance of Must Run Status

13 · Mandatory use of RE sources

14 · Convergence of Schemes

15 · Resource (land/Canal/reservoir/River/Rooftops etc.)

16 · Environmental Clearance

17 · Building RE Based Manufacturing Capacity

18 · Research and Development (R&D) and Stakeholders Engagement for Innovation

19 · Payment Security Mechanism (PSM)

20 · Data monitoring

21 · Transmission and Distribution Infrastructure

220 · V,1 Φ/3 Φ

7 · 100 kW

100 · kW 5000 kW

22 · Power Sale Mechanism

22 · 1 RE Power projects for Sale of Power to Discom:

22 · 2 RE Power projects under Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) Mechanism

22 · 3 Renewable Power Plants for Sale of Electricity to any entity other than the Discom (Third-Party

23 · Bihar Akshay Urja Kendra

23 · 1 Mode of Development and Management:

24 · Application Process

24 · 1 Submission of Proposal for project development

24 · 2 Application Charges

1 · MW and above

25 · Bihar Renewable Energy Development Fund (BRDF)

25 · 1 Objectives

25 · 2 Fund Creation

25 · 3 Fund Utilization Areas

25 · 4 Mode of Fund Utilization and Monitoring:

26 · Governance

26 · 1 District Level Screening Committee (DLSC)

26 · 2 State Level Screening Committee (SLSC)

26 · 3 State Level Empowered Committee (SLEC)

27 · Review of Policy

28 · Relevant Departments

1 · Department of Rural Development

29 · Power to Remove Difficulties

30 · Implementation Guidelines/Framework

10 · 07.2025