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Replicating innovative financing to link energy services and income generation

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Background

Many underprivileged communities of rural India lack access to reliable energy services forcing the poor to rely on traditional sources for their daily energy needs. Renewable energy (RE) development is hampered by a lack of access to financing and a lack of suitable products that directly help generate income.

Purpose

To scale up SELCO-implemented projects which create sustainable linkages between energy services microfinance and income generation improving lives of the poor.

Implementor

SELCO Solar Light Pvt. Ltd.