Five Minute Rooftop Approvals: What a German Grid Operator Can Teach India’s DISCOMs
Rooftop solar’s biggest bottleneck is rarely the roof. It is the wait for the utility to say yes. This week a German distribution company showed how short that wait can get.
Netze BW, which runs the grid across much of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, has introduced an automated assessment for solar systems of up to 15 kW. Where the local network has spare capacity, the system returns a binding connection approval, including the connection point, in about five minutes. Manual assessment at the same company averaged 12 days, and a recent comparison of German operators put the median…
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- prasanna singh
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- Wednesday, 21 October 2026, 9:24 am IST
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