How to verify a PM Surya Ghar vendor

A PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana vendor is verified on the national portal, pmsuryaghar.gov.in, which keeps one list of registered vendors for each electricity board. In Delhi the state solar portal links straight to the five lists for BSES Rajdhani, BSES Yamuna, Tata Power-DDL, NDMC and MES; in Uttar Pradesh the national list for your board is backed by UPNEDA's own approved-firms register. The rule behind the lists is short: the installer must be a vendor registered on the national portal, and you choose the vendor on pmsuryaghar.gov.in. ^[2][4] Verde Solaire is a registered PM Surya Ghar vendor in both Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. ^[vs-faq]

Being on the list is necessary, and it is not the same as being good. This guide shows where to look, what a listing does and does not prove, and what the ministry's August 2026 action against 66 vendors means for an application that is not moving.

Where the lists are

Delhi. The Delhi Solar Portal's empanelled-vendors page states that it is "mandatory to choose a vendor empanelled with PM Surya Ghar portal only to claim the Central Govt's subsidy", and offers five links labelled BRPL, BYPL, TPDDL, NDMC and MES: BSES Rajdhani, BSES Yamuna, Tata Power-DDL, the New Delhi Municipal Council and the Military Engineer Services. Each link opens the national portal's vendor list for that licensee. The same page adds that consumers who are not claiming the central subsidy may choose any vendor, and that Delhi's own subsidy and generation-based incentive are available for all net-metered installations in their categories. ^{[delhi-empanelled-vendors]}

Uttar Pradesh. There are two places to look. The first is the national portal's list for the board printed on your bill: PVVNL, NPCL and PUVVNL each have their own. The second is UPNEDA, the state nodal agency, whose website links an "Approved Vendors List for Solar Rooftop (Residential)" on its solar rooftop portal. That list can be filtered by district and shows each firm's name, vendor code, district, address and the date it was approved; about 530 firms were on it when we checked on 18 September 2026. Noida and Greater Noida are in Gautam Buddha Nagar district, Ghaziabad and Varanasi are districts of their own. Verde Solaire's entry sits under Gautam Buddha Nagar, the district of its Sector 47 head office. The list is cited in full in the sources below.

The national portal itself. The portal renders only in a browser, so open the list yourself rather than trusting a screenshot a caller sends you. If you are not sure which board you are on, the net-metering pages name the licensee for every city this site covers, and the name at the top of your bill settles it.

What "registered" means

A registered vendor has enrolled on the national portal for a board's area and can be selected in your application. The board will inspect its installation, the commissioning certificate can be generated, and the central subsidy can be claimed for the system. ^[2] The vendor is also bound by the scheme's rules: both the modules and the cells must be made in India, and from 1 June 2026 the cells must be on the ALMM List-II. ^[27] Since June 2026 the ministry has had a written standard operating procedure for complaints against vendors, described later on this page.

Two details trip people up. The lists are kept per board, so a firm on the PVVNL list is not automatically on the BSES Rajdhani list; check the list for your board, not "the list". And the entry carries the firm's legal name, which may differ from the brand on a visiting card. Verde Solaire trades as Verde Solaire; the firm is Verde Solaire Private Limited, GSTIN 09AAGCV4977Q1Z6, and older paperwork and reviews may use its former name, formerly Sirius Electric. ^{[vs-testimonials-2]}

What "registered" does not mean

It is also not permanent. A deactivated vendor is removed from the vendor-selection pages, so a name you saw in a brochure last month may not be selectable today. ^{[indianpsu-vendors]} And it is not the same as other government registrations: Verde Solaire is registered with IOCL, UHBVN, DHBVN, CEL, IPGCL, BRPL and CREST for solar power plant installations, which are separate empanelments for separate programmes, and none of them substitutes for the PM Surya Ghar list.

Read the vendor code from the list itself, not from a web page. A list entry can be deactivated overnight; a page like this one cannot show that.

MNRE's August 2026 action: 66 vendors and the 60-day rule

On 27 August 2026 IndianPSU reported that MNRE had deactivated 66 registered vendors. Between April and June 2026 those firms had accumulated far more applications at the "Agreement Uploaded" stage than they had the capacity to install. The ministry called this "artificial hoarding" and said it could "restrict consumer choice and potentially delay the disbursement of government subsidies". Vendors were advised "not to retain consumer applications for more than 60 days without valid reasons". ^{[indianpsu-vendors]}

The deactivation runs for one month. During it a vendor cannot accept new applications and is taken off the vendor-selection pages, but keeps portal access to finish installations already under way, and has 30 days to bring its pendency down to an acceptable level or face a longer deactivation. The report does not say what happens to the applications those 66 vendors were holding. ^{[indianpsu-vendors]}

The action follows a standard operating procedure the ministry issued in June 2026, reported by Energetica India and listed in the sources below. Complaints reach the ministry through the national portal, its vendor management unit, or defects found in third-party inspection. The violations it names include the absence of mandatory earthing and surge protection, delays in execution after an advance has been paid, missing warranties and consumer agreements, mismatched module serial numbers and non-compliance with the domestic content requirement. A vendor gets eight days to respond, a reminder, a show-cause notice at fifteen days, and a one-month deactivation if the explanation is unsatisfactory, with 30 days to appeal. The names of deactivated vendors are to be displayed on the national portal.

What this means for you is practical. If your application has sat at one stage for more than 60 days, ask your vendor in writing what the valid reason is. Feasibility pending with the board, or a roof problem found on survey, are reasons; silence is not. The portal help page explains what each stage means and who acts next.

Five checks before you sign

1. 01

   Find the firm on the list for your board

   Delhi: use the five links on solar.delhi.gov.in. Uttar Pradesh: the national portal list for PVVNL, NPCL or PUVVNL, or UPNEDA's approved-firms list filtered by your district. Do the search yourself, in a browser.
2. 02

   Match three names

   The name on the list, the name on the quote and the name on the GST invoice should be the same legal entity. A brand name that cannot be traced to a listed firm is a reason to stop.
3. 03

   Choose the vendor in your own login

   The application is in your name, on your consumer number. An installer can sit beside you and help fill the form; the login and the OTP stay with you, and you are the one who selects the vendor.
4. 04

   Check the quote against the rules the list does not check

   Indian-made modules and cells, cells on the ALMM List-II, and the make, model and wattage of every component written down. Registration says nothing about any of this.
5. 05

   Watch the clock after Agreement Uploaded

   Sixty days without a valid reason is the ministry's own line. Ask in writing before that, and keep the reply.

The sequence of money never changes: you pay the installer, and the government pays you, officially "within 30 days" of the claim; about 15 days on average. ^[2] Nobody collects the subsidy on your behalf, and no registered vendor needs a "processing fee" to get an application approved; the money-flow page and the free-solar calls guide cover the ways that sentence gets abused. For everything else to settle before an advance changes hands, use the before-you-pay checklist, and for what the cell rule means on a quote, ALMM List-II explained.

How Verde Solaire answers these checks

Verde Solaire is a registered PM Surya Ghar vendor in both Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. It said so on its FAQ of 12 May 2025, and its application guide of 23 May 2025 walks applicants through selecting Verde Solaire Pvt. Ltd. as the registered vendor on the portal. ^{[vs-faq][vs-post-130]} The written quote names the make, model and wattage of every component, and the survey visit is where the portal registration is done with you, on your phone.

When we checked 864 AI answers about rooftop solar in Delhi and Noida in September 2026, ChatGPT and Perplexity sometimes said they could not confirm the Delhi registration. The lists above are where to confirm it, for Verde Solaire or any other firm. ^{[study-2026-09]}

Customers have written about the part of the job that comes after the list. Brij Lal Bhardwaj, with 4 kW at his Sector 25, Noida home, wrote that the team completed the documentation and the liaison for the net meter with the electricity department, and that "Verde has also got the subsidy processed for my solar power plant". ^{[vs-testimonials-2]} Every published review is on the reviews page, verbatim.

Sources and dates

The Delhi empanelled-vendors page and UPNEDA's approved-firms list were checked on 18 September 2026; the national portal was not readable by our tools, so its lists are described through the Delhi portal's links and the ministry's own releases. The vendor rule is from the PIB backgrounder of March 2025 and the BSES Rajdhani FAQ of September 2025. The deactivation is as reported by IndianPSU on 27 August 2026, and the standard operating procedure as reported by Energetica India on 24 June 2026; neither report has been checked against the ministry's order text. Verde Solaire's registration is as published on its own FAQ and guide of May 2025. Vendor codes are deliberately not reproduced here.