SELCO Foundation’s Energy for Health (E4H) programme addresses the energy needs of India’s last-mile health centres — Primary Health Centres (PHC), Sub-Centres (SC), and Health and Wellness Centres (HWC) — with a special emphasis on the remote and difficult-to-access regions

Deep-diving into the energy and systemic gaps, we provide health centres with Decentralised Renewable Energy (DRE) systems or distributed solar energy infrastructure that not only enables them to become energy-sufficient, but also energy-efficient, more productive in the human aspect of healthcare delivery, and climate-resilient. We believe, designing DRE into the healthcare delivery system has become a no-brainer from the climate disaster perspective. We cannot have a health centre failing any time a calamity hits; in fact that is exactly the time when we cannot have it fail.

To roll out E4H, we chose certain regions very deliberately — the South, the East and the Northeast. While we play the role of technical knowledge partners in the rest of the country, we chose the E4H states based on three criteria: