Net Metering Application in Bangladesh: Online Form, Documents and Steps

By Vvon Engineering Team | Published 2026-04-21 | Updated 2026-10-05

Find the official Bangladesh net-metering application portal, identify your utility and prepare the account, site and engineering information for submission.

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To start a net-metering application in Bangladesh, open the government's Net Energy Metering portal, identify the utility shown on your bill and check the current account and project requirements. This guide explains the application file and utility coordination. Use the separate economics guide for sizing and bill-saving assumptions.

Buying questions, answered

Where should I start a net-metering application in Bangladesh?

Check the utility named on your electricity bill and the government's Net Energy Metering application portal. Confirm the current submission route and document requirements for that account. The utility decides the application; VVON can discuss engineering and coordination within a defined EPC scope.

What should I send VVON before requesting an EPC proposal?

Send the site location, recent electricity bills, daytime operating schedule, roof or land information, photographs and target date. Identify backup requirements separately. Use the solar configuration guide and request a site-specific project proposal.

What the utility is actually approving

The 2025 guideline defines system capacity using aggregate inverter AC output. Clause 3.3 limits AC output to sanctioned load and, for medium- to extra-high-voltage consumers, to 80% of the transformer or parallel-transformer rated capacity. These are not direct limits on module DC kWp. Confirm the proposed design and any applicable additional conditions with the utility.

The application review covers the proposed connection and its compliance with the applicable requirements. Capacity, protection, equipment evidence and metering are key checks, alongside the account, design and site records required by the serving utility. Keep the investment appraisal and the utility-approval file distinct, and reconcile the equipment and capacity stated in both.

Which utility takes your file

The application does not go to SREDA. It goes to the distribution utility that issued your connection, and the receiving office depends on where the meter is, not where your head office is.

Supplying utility	Where to start
DPDC / DESCO	Use the customer account to identify the responsible office and current application channel.
BPDB	Use the office shown on the bill.
BREB / PBS	Contact the supplying Palli Bidyut Samity.
NESCO / WZPDCL	Confirm the responsible office from the account.

Use the site's actual consumer account, not the company head-office address or a broad district map. Obtain the receiving office and required submission channel from the utility.

Who is eligible

• Single-phase and three-phase consumers can be eligible subject to guideline clauses 3.1–3.2.
• Check aggregate inverter AC output against sanctioned load.
• For medium- to extra-high-voltage consumers, also check the transformer-capacity constraint.
• Confirm metering, equipment and other applicable connection requirements.
• Assess small systems on their own costs and demand; there is no universal economic threshold at 50 kWp.

The application file, item by item

Prepare the owner's account and property records alongside the contractor's technical annexures. Check that names, capacities, equipment and drawings agree before submission.

Document	Who produces it	What it must agree with, and the usual problem
SREDA-format application form	Applicant signs, EPC completes the technical fields	Consumer name and account number must match the utility's records exactly, including spelling carried over from an old trade licence
Single line diagram (SLD)	EPC contractor	Must show the existing transformer, incoming breaker, AC combiner, protection settings and the net meter position, not only the PV side of the wiring
Module and inverter datasheets	EPC contractor	The inverter needs recognised grid protection and anti-islanding certification, and the model on the datasheet must be the model that actually arrives on site
Roof plan and array layout	EPC contractor, from the site survey	Array area has to be consistent with the declared kWp; walkways, setbacks and inverter platforms left off at this stage force a revision later
Recent electricity bill	Applicant	The sanctioned load printed on the bill is the number the utility sizes your approval against, whatever your connected load has grown to
NID or trade licence	Applicant	Must be in the same name as the electricity account; a plant bought from another company needs the name transfer completed first
Load and generation summary	EPC contractor	Declared capacity against sanctioned load, and against transformer rating where the MV ceiling applies

Resolve discrepancies in sanctioned-load and account records with the utility. If a load revision is proposed, ask how it should be sequenced with the net-metering application rather than assuming parallel submissions always delay each other.

The sequence, from feasibility to first netted bill

• Have qualified professionals prepare the roof, structural and electrical design and load/generation assessment.
• Use Annex-1 and the current utility requirements. Clause 3.7 allows hard copy or the online portal; confirm the channel for your account.
• Obtain a dated acknowledgement and track requests for additional information.
• Receive the required permission and verify the approved AC capacity before final installation.
• Install to the approved design and submit the completed checklist for inspection.
• Confirm meter and connection work, actual charges and scope responsibilities with the utility.
• Complete authorised commissioning and the agreement before export accounting begins.

Where applications stall

• Check aggregate AC capacity against all applicable limits.
• Show the existing transformer, protection, connection point and metering on the SLD.
• Verify approved model and certification evidence; declare substitutions before installation.
• Resolve account-name and legal-entity discrepancies.
• Arrange safe access for the relevant pre-installation or completed-system inspection.
• Obtain roof rights and required consents.
• Do not assume installation itself grants permission to export.

The commissioning test, and what to have ready

Use the utility's approved commissioning and witness plan. Qualified personnel should verify protection, isolation, metering and the required electrical tests without exposing occupants or essential services to an uncontrolled interruption. Retain signed results, settings and as-built drawings.

What the first netted bill looks like

Under clauses 3.4–3.5 of the 2025 guideline, billing credits are reconciled quarterly after March, June, September and December. The guideline deducts 10% of net exported electricity as a distribution maintenance charge before crediting the remaining 90%. Residual settlement uses the applicable BERC bulk rate; fixed charges can remain. Check the signed agreement and current utility billing implementation when modelling value.

Compare utility import/export registers for the same period with appropriately configured site metering. An inverter's generation total is not the export total. Check CT ratios, direction and period alignment before concluding that a billing difference is a meter fault.

Sources and project checks

Consult the relevant edition and the documents for the exact equipment and site: Power Division / SREDA: Net Metering Guidelines 2025, English; IEC 62446-1: grid-connected PV documentation and commissioning.

Plan your next step

Check the inputs behind your net-metering proposal

A useful sizing discussion starts with how the site uses electricity, not only how many panels fit on the roof. Ask for a model you can review with your finance and facilities teams, with the connection assumptions shown separately from the proposed equipment capacity.

• Provide twelve months of bills, the tariff category, sanctioned load, transformer details and available interval readings. Identify weekends, seasonal shutdowns and planned production changes.
• Ask the proposal to distinguish module capacity in kWp from inverter output in kW, and confirm the applicable connection limit with the serving utility.
• Request monthly self-consumption, exports and bill calculations with the tariff and settlement assumptions stated. Include maintenance, replacement allowances and a lower-generation scenario in the comparison.

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Prepare the application and the engineering brief separately

The Power Division portal explains the application stages. VVON can discuss the EPC engineering scope; the relevant utility decides permission and system acceptance.

Official application portal

Start with the electricity account and applicant details requested by the official portal.

Confirm in the offer: Consult its current user guide and utility-specific requirements before submitting.

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Installation permission

Keep the approved project information with the equipment and installation records.

Confirm in the offer: Do not treat an EPC quotation as utility permission or a guaranteed approval date.

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EPC engineering scope

Define survey, electrical design, equipment, installation and application-support deliverables.

Confirm in the offer: Agree who supplies metering documents, inspections, commissioning evidence and handover records.

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Prepare a comparable quotation

• Electricity account, utility, sanctioned load and site address
• Proposed system arrangement and equipment documentation
• Named owner, EPC and utility responsibilities

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