From solar BOMs ShakeDeal has costed and sourced for utility-scale ground-mount projects, not a published spot index. The rate card is versioned and dated, currently v2026.08, last reviewed 13 August 2026. Every package carries a low, base and high band, because a single number for solar modules, mounting structure or AC cabling would be false precision.

On an indicative landed basis this check benchmarks genuine DCR solar modules at about Rs 20.44 to Rs 24.71 per Wp, and open-market non-DCR solar panels at about Rs 14.00 to Rs 16.50 per Wp, both ex-GST. These are benchmark bands, and they sit deliberately below the planning figure published on our solar project cost estimator, which carries a margin so that a real RFQ never lands above it. Both come from the same rate card. Your exact landed number depends on order size, delivery window and site.

Because the DCR answer moves the solar module rate by roughly Rs 7 to 9 per Wp, and modules and panels are typically about 55 percent of a ground-mount project. On a real 19.5 MW solar BOQ, that single unanswered question accounted for Rs 10.73 crore of an Rs 11.52 crore gap. Pricing solar panels either way before the tender or PPA clause is settled produces a number that has to be retracted.

Usually not. A solar module or panel rate well below benchmark most often means the specification has moved rather than that a bargain was found. The common case is a value-tier make quoted where the specification points at a tier-one unit. On a real 19.5 MW read, the inverter came in 27 percent under benchmark for exactly that reason. A DCR module quoted at a non-DCR price is a provenance question: verify the ALMM List-II cell origin and the DCR certificate before you treat it as a saving.

So that the number is defensible. Flagging everything above the midpoint would produce a bigger, more flattering figure and a weaker conversation. If we say a line is over, it is over the highest rate we have seen on a comparable utility-scale solar project, which is a number you can put in front of a vendor without having to defend it.

Solar modules or panels, mounting structure or single-axis trackers, string or central inverters, DC string cable with conduit and MC4, string combiner boxes and DC isolators, earthing and lightning protection, AC cabling in LT and HT with lugs, LT and HT panels and switchgear, bus duct, step-up transformers with auxiliary, SCADA and monitoring, DP yard and bay extension with CIEG and SLDC, civil and balance of plant, design and engineering, and installation and commissioning. This solar EPC BOQ check benchmarks every one of those packages.

Because this is a package-level screen and the full read is line level. Two things make it deliberately conservative. It only counts money above the TOP of the band, not above the middle, so the figure is one you can defend to a vendor. And it compares whole packages, so if your BOQ prices a package more narrowly than our band covers, real padding inside it can pass as in band. On the 19.5 MW solar BOQ shown above, this check flags about Rs 65 lakh while the full line-level read found Rs 1.57 crore, most of the difference being galvanised structure, SS304 fasteners and DC string cable quoted at Rs 76 a metre against a benchmark of Rs 60. Treat the tool as the two-minute screen and send the BOQ for the real number.

Both are genuinely site-specific. Land depends on acreage and location and moves by a factor of four across our own band. The transmission line depends on route kilometres and terrain. Neither can be derived from plant capacity alone, so this solar BOQ check leaves them out rather than guessing. Our full read prices both once you give us the acreage and the route.

No. It is a planning-grade benchmark for solar modules, solar panels and the full balance of system. For a firm, line-item number against your actual solar project BOQ, send us the BOQ and the sourcing desk will return a full read in five working days.