1.	Solar Home System (SHS)
1.1	Subsidy will be provided to households for installing SHS of 10-18 Wp, and more than 18 Wp from now onward as mentioned in following regions.
	Geographical Location	10-18 Wp (NPR)	More than 18 Wp (NPR)
	Karnali and adjoining districts* and very remote VDCs# categorized A in other districts	7,000	10,000
	Remote VDC# categorized B in other districts	6,000	8,000
	Accessible VDCs	5,000	6,000
*   #	Humla, Jumla, Kalikot, Dolpa, Mugu, Rolpa, Rukum, Jajarkot, Bajhang, Bajura, Achham, Dailekh, Darchula The very remote and remote VDCs of the remote districts are as per Ministry of Local Development (MOLD)/GON notification in the Nepal Gazette. The category “A” comprises of very remote VDCs, while category “B” represents remote VDCs as specified in Annex-1.
1.2	The subsidy for SHS used by public institutions such as the VDC buildings, School, Club, Health post/ Centre etc. will be up to 75% of the cost.
1.3	In order to provide quick relief from kerosene tuki, jharo etc. in the rural areas a small solar system based on White LED known as solar tuki will be promoted. A solar tuki consisting of 2-5 Wp solar panel along with two sets of solar lamp will be provided a 50% subsidy on the cost but not exceeding Rupees 1,250 per system.

2.	Solar Cooker Realizing the usefulness of solar cooker and recent price increases, the subsidy to solar cooker will be 50% of its market value, but will not exceed NPR 4,000.
3.	Solar Dryer The solar dryers may have extensive use in the rural areas, taking into account of its contribution to fuel wood saving and drying of agriculture products/food without quality deteriorations. Solar dryer might contribute to rural household income as well. So, the subsidy will also be provided to family sized solar dryers as well as the solar dryers, which could use in commercial purpose.   The subsidy to family sized solar dryer costing up to Rupees 20,000 will be provided up to 50%. If the dryers are to be installed in rural areas for commercial purpose, the subsidy will be up to 70% of the total cost.
4.	Solar Water Pump In order to encourage solar PV use in the areas where rural electrification has not been done, Solar Pumps will be useful for the activities like irrigation and drinking water. Poor people in the high lands in mountains can benefit from solar irrigation. Therefore, to promote productive use of solar PV, the subsidy of solar pumps up to the capacity of 1000 Wp will be 75% of its cost. AEPC will provide necessary technical support to such schemes.

 Updated: 22 Nov 2006