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From Infosys, SAP Labs to St Joseph's College and Sri Sathya Sai Medical Hospital, big energy consumers are switching to renewable energy sources, primarily solar. There are many plus points of embracing green energy -reduces dependency on grid by 50%, saves revenue on fat electricity bills and cuts carbon footprint of a consumer. Solar uptake in Karnataka has helped the state achieve its target of 3% of solar consumption (1,600 MW) within three years of the launch of the Solar Policy in May 2014. It had forecast of achieving 2% by 2016-17. It mandates grid connected solar power generating systems, which means every solar consumer will be grid-connected and if the consumer produces excess solar power it can be supplied to the grid. It is net metered for the consumer.