Russia

Microgeneration

A microgeneration facility is a system for your own needs that runs in parallel with a grid of up to 1,000 V (Federal Law 35-FZ, Article 3, clause 42, as amended by 471-FZ). Law 208-FZ of 26.06.2026 replaced the old 15 kW limit with caps set by the government and allowed microgeneration as part of the common property of an apartment building.

Government Order No. 2675-r of 26.09.2026: export to the grid of up to 50 kW for individuals and up to 150 kW for sole proprietors, companies and the common property of apartment buildings, but no more than the consumer’s own maximum capacity.

• Connection only to grids of up to 1 kV
• A system on an apartment building that serves more than one unit is common property (Resolution No. 1242)
• At the end of 2025 Russia had 1,123 microgeneration facilities with 12.4 MW in total (ARVE)

Selling the surplus

You apply to the grid company the house is connected to; the contract with the guaranteeing supplier (the regional retail supplier) appears in your online account within 10 working days. The meter is hourly and bidirectional.

The guaranteeing supplier pays the wholesale price: the day-ahead market plus capacity. An example — Tambov, June 2025: 3.56 ₽ per kWh, about 40% of the Moscow tariff. So using the sun yourself pays more than selling it.

• Income from selling the surplus is exempt from personal income tax until 01.01.2029 (Tax Code of Russia, Article 217, clause 28.1)
• The supplier may deduct a debt for energy consumed from the payment for the surplus
• We have not found the buy-back price for Siberia and the Far East

Grid connection

For a home of up to 15 kW the connection fee is preferential: the region sets a rate per kW of no less than 5,000 ₽ excluding VAT. In Moscow in 2026 it is 6,522 ₽ per kW including VAT, so about 98,000 ₽ for 15 kW; for preferential categories — 1,304 ₽ per kW.

Timing — from 30 working days near a 0.4 kV line to 6 months; if the house is already connected, microgeneration is added in about a month.

• We have not yet found the preferential fee and timing for 15–50 kW microgeneration after 26.09.2026

Tariffs and volume bands

The 2026 indexation was moved to 01.10: the base tariff rose by about 11.1–11.3%, and from 01.01 it had already gone up by 1.7% because of the 22% VAT. In 2025 the increase was 12.6%.

Since 2026 almost every region has to split the tariff by volume: up to 3,900 kWh a month at the preferential rate, 3,900–6,000 at a higher one, over 6,000 at no less than the tariff for other consumers. In Tatarstan that is 6.47 → 8.54 → 12.41 ₽. Solar and a battery that cut off the top kWh pay off faster there.

• Moscow: no bands; at night (23:00–07:00) — 4.85 ₽
• Homes with electric heating in winter: thresholds ×1.8 — 7,020 and 10,800 kWh

Incentives

We have not found federal subsidies, grants or soft loans for private solar systems, batteries, heat pumps or home chargers — only the 0% personal income tax on surplus sales. So the calculators count without any top-ups.

For electric cars: 0% transport tax in Moscow until 01.01.2030 and in a number of regions, free parking in Moscow’s paid city car parks; charging at city hubs costs 20 ₽ per kWh, 14 ₽ at night.

• Subsidies for fast charging stations go only to companies; there are none for home chargers

The house and the codes

Whether a system on the roof of a private house needs a permit, and which codes apply to home lithium batteries, we check for each property during the site survey: we have not yet found general rules with a primary source.

We install only certified equipment, put the battery in a warm room with fire separation and design the mounting for the local snow.