Support for MSMEs →

50% capital support, free feasibility study, vetted suppliers.

Project Components

Four components, designed to work in sequence: clear the policy ground, prove the technology, finance replication, and build the skills to sustain it.

Component 1

Policy and institutional framework

Identifying the technical and financial constraints on industrial solar heat, and recommending the policy and fiscal measures that remove them.

Delivered · CST Policy Roadmap · reviews of boiler regulations, building codes and domestic manufacturing incentives · CST mapping against industrial processes
Component 2

Technology investment and application

Technical specifications, performance benchmarks and integration guidelines for medium-temperature applications — proved through pilot installations in real production conditions.

Delivered · technology packages and application guidelines · demonstrations in silk reeling, pharmaceuticals, dairy and leather · 14 detailed project reports
Component 3

Scale-up

Turning demonstration into a repeatable market: a project pipeline, a financing facility, business models, and standards and certification for component quality.

Delivered · 50% capital incentive scheme · supplier empanelment · 25 feasibility studies with TERI and IIT Guwahati · BOOT models admitted
Component 4

Awareness and capacity building

Training the manufacturers, installers and operators the market needs, and documenting outputs, case studies and lessons for wider replication.

Delivered · Training of Trainers, Goa 2024 · operator training at ni-msme · 20 awareness workshops and 12 technical programmes running through 2026
Where the current phase concentrates

Under the MoMSME arrangement the project prioritises Component 2 and Component 3 applications that need only pressurised hot water or steam up to about 200 °C — principally water and thermic-fluid heating and drying. These are the applications CST serves most reliably and most cheaply, and they are common across every target cluster.