practiceScaled

SELCO India - decentralized last-mile solar energy services

📍 India · 1995 · SELCO Solar Light Pvt. Ltd.

Scale
local
subnational
national
systemic

Description

SELCO Solar Light, a for-profit social enterprise founded in 1995 in Bangalore, provides tailored decentralized solar energy solutions (home systems, lighting, pumps and productive-use equipment) to low-income households and microenterprises. It combines sales and service with tailored financing, including the 'productive asset credit', which finances a productive-use solar system as a business loan. It operates through a network of local branches that provide long-term maintenance.

Linked evidence

Social Enterprises and SDGs: A Case Study of SELCO Solar Light Pvt. Ltd, IndiaWorld Scientific (Encyclopedia of Business Sustainability, Ethics and Entrepreneurship, Vol. 2, pp. 221-235) · 2022Evidence