← home / Tools / Productive-use solar applications (pumps, sewing machines, mills)⚙● toolProductive-use solar applications (pumps, sewing machines, mills)Practices that use itSELCO India - decentralized last-mile solar energy servicesSELCO 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.● Scaled· scale subnational