The government of Karnataka is planning to tweak its solar energy policy in an effort to achieve self-sufficiency in electricity generation by 2016.

With the new policy, the government intends to introduce an incentive scheme for the domestic household consumers, to encourage them to install rooftop solar panels to produce electricity for self consumption and supply to the grid. Any household installing a solar panel for this purpose will be paid for the surplus energy supplied to the grid after domestic consumption.

A meter will be installed at the households to measure the consumption and the transmission of power produced from rooftop solar panels and the consumers will get a cheque delivered to them in case of supply to the grid.

Further, the state government will add 3,000 MW in additional capacity to the state grid. The state intends to generate 2,000 MW power from the solar energy source by 2020.

The state government will also invest around Rs 7,000 crore in energy subsidies to farmers.