Energising the last mile is a multi-billion dollar opportunity.
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Okra provides end-to-end services tailored to the needs of energy companies and utility providers.
IoT Smart Grids
Setup plug-&-play smart grids using our innovative hardware, software and mobile money technology.
Network Planning
Identify off-grid communities, analyse project pipelines, and generate BOMs automatically using our network planning software.
Project Development
Enter new markets confidently by leveraging our relationships with regulators, proven business structures and project financing options.
1795
Lives Empowered
3
Countries
15
Villages energized
The Okra Pod
Putting every ray of sunlight to good use.
The Pod is the brainy building block of every Okra smart grid. It allows households to interconnect so that they can share energy to where it’s needed when it’s needed. This ensures each and every family has uninterrupted power for their essential needs – lighting, fans, mobile phone charging and TVs.
Power distribution is automatically balanced which means families can also use freezers, cooking equipment, washing machines and water pumps, without fear of blackout.
Okra Harvest
Enabling remote operation of data-driven smart grids.
Remote Monitoring
See what’s going on in granular detail: energy consumption, battery SoC, panel generation and more.
Alerts & Insights
Action maintenance tasks efficiently based on real-time alerts and insights delivered via machine learning.
Manage Portfolio
CRM
Automated Maintenance
Access live data
Network Planning
Billions of dollars stand to be saved while achieving rapid electrification of the last mile.
Extending the grid to the last mile becomes exponentially more expensive as last mile communities are in some of the hardest to reach areas. Explore some of Okra’s target locations where microgrids make for profitable high impact solutions and let us know where you’d like to start building.
Nigeria
Description
#HH
Capex
PV kWp
Storage kWh
AVG Load kWh
Okra
217
$102,336.03
26.12
142.56
0.4
AC Grid
217
$165,020.16
28.64
156.24
0.4
Get a rough estimate for your Mesh Grid
Our Customers
“We’ve deployed Okra projects in 2 countries now – it’s the most flexible solution we’ve found to setting up microgrids.“
Alex Bourme | Energy Program Manger
“Automation and digitisation of energy assets through Okra is key to mobilising the large scale capital required to catalyse the sector.“
Mason Wallick | Managing Director
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Awards
IEEE Empower 1 Billion Lives
Best Emerging Utility Solution
PFAN
Winner of Business Plan Competition
IoT Hub
Best IoT Startup
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TechCrunch Hardware Battlefield
Winner
Chivas Venture
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Latest Updates
Embedding Grafana - an open-source time-series data visualization tool - into the Okra Harvest platform was not as simple as dropping an <iframe> and getting on with the day unless you want to disable authentication completely in your Grafana instance. Recently we found a nifty workaround by only allowing access to Grafana to users who logged in via Auth0.
Now our customers can monitor Okra smart grids in a secure manner. See how we did it in our new blog - Jeremy Nagel documented it all 🙂
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We hope all of you have a Christmas Day filled with warmth and love. At Okra we couldn't wait until the end of the holidays to announce we have been granted a 500.000USD loan from the Nexus for Development investment fund "The Pioneer Facility". Right now we're taking some time off to reflect on the challenging albeit still awesome year and imagine a future so many people are working towards making a reality.
Can you see it too? A future with Christmas lights in every corner 😉
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#OkraSolar #Okra #Nexus #smartgrid # #sustainability #sustainabilitygoals #PowertothePeople
Pioneer Facility signs a USD 500,000 loan agreement with Okra solar for last-mile electrification
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The Pioneer Facility closed its last 2020 financing of USD 500,000 with Okra Solar, enabling rapid electrification for last-mile communities.Merry Christmas everybody! ✨
Our dev team really got in the spirit of the silly season and turned all of the houses 🏠 in the Harvest platform into Christmas trees 🎄...it made for a few interesting product demos, but with engineering spirits high you can expect many exciting new features in 2021!
Okra elf signing off - have a safe and amazing holiday everyone.
Yesterday we joined Ministry of Mines and Energy Cambodia, UNDP Cambodia and Pteah Baitong, to officially inaugurate a new Steung Chrov micro-grid in Kampong Chhang, Cambodia. ⚡️🇰🇭
Only 236 more villages to go until Cambodia's last-mile is 100% electrified! 🙂
#powertothepeople #SmartGrids #MME #UNDP #thelastmile
Today we are celebrating 100 installations completed in 100 households in Steung Chrov! 💪🤩
And we couldn't have made it half as fast if it wasn't for the resilience and incredible work of our partners Pteah Baitong! More than sweat and strength, the team put their heart into reaching this milestone and making reliable power a reality for these 100 families of the Steung Chrov community.⚡
Ofcourse none of this would have been possible without the support of @អាជ្ញាធរអគ្គិសនីកម្ពុជា, Ministry of Mines and Energy Cambodia and UNDP Cambodia.
To many more outstanding partners and (em)powered households!
#okrasolar #SmartGrids #powertothepeople
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