About Blues Renewables
We are a rooftop solar EPC company in Chennai. Since 2020 we have designed, built and commissioned on-grid, off-grid and hybrid solar systems for homes, apartment associations, factories, schools and hospitals across Tamil Nadu — and filed the subsidy and net metering paperwork that goes with them.
Owner-operated, not a franchise. The person who surveys your roof works for the same company that installs it, files your subsidy and answers the phone in year four.
What we do
One company from the survey to the fourth-year service call
Blues Renewables is an EPC company — engineering, procurement and construction. In plain terms: we survey the roof, size the system against your actual consumption, design the array and the mounting structure, procure the components, install and commission the plant, file the subsidy and net metering applications, and service what we built.
That single chain matters more than it sounds. Most of what goes wrong with rooftop solar in Chennai is a handover problem — the dealer who sold it is not the contractor who installed it, and neither of them filed the net metering application. When one company carries all of it, there is nobody to point at.
We work on both sides of the meter: residential rooftops claiming the PM Surya Ghar subsidy, and commercial and industrial plants where the arithmetic is self-consumption, demand charges and depreciation rather than subsidy.
How a project runs
Six stages, and what each one actually involves
A straightforward residential project runs six to ten weeks end to end. Most of that is approvals, not installation — the panels go up in two or three days.
Site survey and load study
We measure the usable, shade-free roof area, check the sanctioned load and the name on your service connection, look at the structure and the cable run, and read your last four bills. This is where problems surface — a connection in a parent’s name, a sanctioned load below the system size, a water tank casting afternoon shade.
Sizing, design and a written quotation
You get a system size tied to your consumption, a shadow-free layout, a structure design for your roof type, and an itemised quotation naming the panel and inverter make and model. Not a per-kW round number.
Subsidy and net metering filing
We file the PM Surya Ghar application on the National Portal and the net metering application with TANGEDCO, and follow both through feasibility approval. No separate charge for this — it is part of the project.
Structure fabrication and installation
Galvanised structure fabricated for your roof, panels mounted with the required clearance, DC and AC cabling in conduit, earthing and lightning arrestor, inverter and protection installed at the board. Two to three days on site for a domestic system.
Inspection, net meter and commissioning
TANGEDCO inspects, the net meter is fitted and the plant is commissioned. We hand over the commissioning report, the single-line diagram, the warranty documents and the component serial numbers, and register the plant for generation monitoring.
Service, and the years after
Panel cleaning schedule, generation checks against the design figure, and warranty claims handled by us rather than by you and the manufacturer. This is the stage most companies quietly skip, and the reason we keep component records on file.
Standards
What we install, and what we will not
ALMM-listed modules
Subsidised projects require modules from the ALMM list and cells from the approved list. We name the make and model on the quotation, and the serial numbers appear on your handover file.
Inverters sized to the array
DC/AC ratio kept within the manufacturer’s window, string voltages checked against Chennai’s temperature range, and a warranty registered in your name, not the installer’s.
Structure built for coastal wind
Hot-dip galvanised structure, designed for the wind zone rather than the cheapest section that will hold a panel in still air. Chennai is a cyclone-exposed coast and the structure is where corners get cut.
Earthing and protection, always
Separate earthing for array, inverter and lightning arrestor, DC and AC protection at the board, and cabling in conduit. None of it is visible in a photograph, which is exactly why it is the first thing dropped from a cheap quote.
Documentation you keep
Commissioning report, single-line diagram, component serials, warranty certificates and the subsidy and net metering acknowledgements. If you sell the property, this file is what proves the plant is legitimate.
What we decline
Roofs too shaded to reach the generation we would promise, system sizes beyond a sanctioned load the customer will not enhance, and quotations stripped of earthing or structure to match a lower bid. We would rather lose the order than commission a plant that underperforms its estimate.
Leadership
Who is accountable for the work
Gibson Remigio
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Gibson founded Blues Renewables in 2020 and leads system design and project delivery. His focus is the commercial and industrial side of the business — helping factories and commercial units cut recurring EB bills and carbon emissions with solar PV.
Before founding the company he spent close to three years as a Solar Project Co-Ordinator on the Tamil Nadu Rural Transformation Project, co-ordinating end-to-end solar initiatives across rural Tamil Nadu with government teams and vendors — which is where the paperwork side of this business was learned the hard way.
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Where we work
Chennai first, Tamil Nadu for larger plants
Residential work is concentrated in Chennai and the three surrounding districts, because service response matters more than order value. Commercial and industrial projects we take across the state.
Chennai
Adyar · Anna Nagar · T. Nagar · Mylapore · Besant Nagar · Thiruvanmiyur · Velachery · Madipakkam · Medavakkam · Perungudi · Sholinganallur · OMR · ECR · Porur · Mogappair · Ambattur · Avadi · Kolathur · Perambur · Villivakkam · Guindy · Nungambakkam · Tambaram · Chromepet · Pallavaram
Surrounding districts
Chengalpattu · Kanchipuram · Tiruvallur · Sriperumbudur · Oragadam · Poonamallee · Red Hills · Gummidipoondi · Maraimalai Nagar · Mahabalipuram
Commercial, across Tamil Nadu
Tiruchirappalli · Coimbatore · Salem · Hosur · Madurai · Erode · Tirupur · Vellore · Ranipet · Thoothukudi
Common questions
About the company
Blues Renewables was founded in 2020 by Gibson Remigio, who is the Founder and CEO. It is owner-operated — not a franchise, not a dealership, and not a lead-generation agency that passes your enquiry to a third-party installer.
Yes. The business is registered as an MSME under Udyam Registration Number UDYAM-TN-02-0495778, and every quotation and invoice is raised under that registered entity with the number printed on it. Ask any solar company for its registration details before you pay an advance — a company that will not put them on a quotation is telling you something.
Our own team does the survey, the structure, the installation and the commissioning. Sub-contracting is where accountability disappears: when the crew that installed your system does not work for the company that warranties it, service calls go unanswered.
All of Chennai and the districts of Chengalpattu, Kanchipuram and Tiruvallur for residential work. Commercial and industrial projects we take across Tamil Nadu, including Tiruchirappalli, Coimbatore, Salem, Hosur and Madurai.
Yes, and at no separate charge. We file the National Portal application, the TANGEDCO net metering application and the inspection paperwork, and follow them through to the subsidy transfer. See the PM Surya Ghar process for what that involves.
Since 2020. Long enough to have systems in the field past their fourth summer, which is the point at which installation shortcuts — poor earthing, thin structure, undersized cable — usually start to show.
Call us, not the manufacturer. We hold your component serial numbers and warranty certificates on file and raise the claim ourselves. Panel and inverter warranties are registered in your name at commissioning so the cover is yours even if you sell the property.
Yes. Indicative per-kW ranges and worked post-subsidy examples are on the solar panel price in Chennai page, with the assumptions stated. A binding number needs a site survey, because roof type and cable run genuinely change it.
Start with the roof
Book a free site assessment
An engineer visits, measures the usable roof, checks your sanctioned load and connection name, and gives you a written system size and quotation. No charge and no obligation — and if your roof is not worth it, we will say so.