SELCO: Lighting up the Lives of the Rural Poor

Reporter : Alam Bains

SELCO Solar Pvt. Ltd, a social enterprise established in 1995 and is based in Bangalore. It provides sustainable energy solutions and services to under-served households and businesses. SELCO aims to empower its customer by providing a complete package of product, service and consumer financing through grameena banks, cooperative societies, commercial banks and micro-finance institutions.

Since 1995, SELCO has a total of 25 energy service centers in Karnataka and Gujarat, a skill force of over 170 employees with 115,000 + solar home lighting systems in 15 years and the largest solar water heating system for a single client in India.  It has been awarded the Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2005 and Ashden Award for Outstanding Achievement in 2007. 

SELCO’s key features are creating products based on end user needs, installation and after-sales service and standardized financing packages. SELCO focuses on its customers and provides them with the best energy products, service, and access to affordable finance.

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