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Listening workshop| RTS Awareness 2 (Parents meet 1) | Kodambakkam

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Citizen consumer and civic Action Group (CAG), in collaboration with Poovulagin Nanbargal organized a Rooftop Solar PV awareness workshop on Saturday, May 10, 2025, at Padaippu hall, Kodambakkam. The event, held from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM, saw the participation of 20 parents from all over Chennai. 

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Listening workshop| RTS Awareness 1 | Valluvam Organic Market

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Citizen consumer and civic Action Group (CAG), in collaboration with Valluvam Organic Market organised a rooftop solar PV awareness program  on Sunday, May 4, 2025, within the market premises in Tambaram. The event took place from 09:00 AM to 5:00 PM, and was attended by residents from Tambaram and nearby areas. 

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Why switch common areas to solar?

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Switching to renewable energy in your residential complex not just reduces your carbon footprint, but also your common area electricity bills. Invest in solar installations and generate your own electricity for your building's common area electricity needs. Enhance your community's sustainability. These posters are free to download and distribute under creative commons license.

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Time of Day solar energy feed-in tariff

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Did you know that your saved solar energy can give you 20% more benefit? Harvest solar energy, save and feed it into the grid during evening peak hours during which the 'Time of Day solar energy feed-in tariff' is applicable in Tamil Nadu. These posters are free to download and distribute under creative commons license.

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Electricity Governance - CAG's Solar network charges calculator

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Charges collected by the utility for grid-connected #RoofTopSolar is called #Solar networking charges. These charges are calculated based on the units generated in the system and the charge per unit. Sounds confusing?

Use our solar network calculator here: https://bit.ly/3PxZV5c to help you.

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Solar Network Charges Calculator

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The Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) has revised the network or wheeling charges in its 9 September 2022 tariff order. Prosumers can use our tool to calculate and understand the network or wheeling charges for all the billing months after the September 2022 tariff order, for FY 2022-23.

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Prosumer Forum meeting

Citizen Consumer and civic Action Group (CAG) organised a discussion on the “Residential Rooftop Solar Experience in Tamil Nadu: The Prosumer Perspective”, at Madras Management Association (MMA), Chennai on September 3, 2022. The objective of the programme was to bring together residential prosumers to discuss the issues faced while installing Residential Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic (PV) and to brainstorm possible solutions. Mr K.

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