900 Million People Without Power
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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.
1240
Lives Empowered
3
Countries
12
Villages energized
Why Smart Grids?
Okra’s modular DC smart-grids enable households to receive 24/7 electricity for half of the operating costs of traditional AC minigrids. Our modular node-to-node distribution architecture and IoT to remotely control and monitor, enables unparalleled reliability for end-users and grid operators.
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.
Manage
Track inventory, plan installs, assign assets, and generate custom reports for all projects – big and small.
Mobile Payments
Keep tight control of billing statuses, update energy packages remotely and check balances for all customers.
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.
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 powered by machine learning.
Pipeline
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.
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
Entrpreneurs Du Monde
“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
InFunde Development
Awards
IEEE Empower 1 Billion Lives
Best Emerging Utility Solution
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IoT Hub
Best IoT Startup
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TechCrunch Hardware Battlefield
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Chivas Venture
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Latest Updates
Thanks pv magazine for shedding light on the journey. It's been a fun ride, from ping pong table days to now hanging out from 8 countries over google hangouts. Times have changed but our mission remains the same - get more energy out there. fast. Checkout some updates here -> ✊🏽 ⚡️🌍
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www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2020/06/02/okra-solars-new-tech-is-a-one-two-punch-against-energy-p...
Okra Solar’s new tech is a one-two punch against energy poverty
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Okra Solar, the Aussie startup we last saw delivering solar mini-grids to remote communities via a shared ping-pong table, is emerging from Covid-19 lockdown with new investors and two new pieces of t...Happy Friday! Check out the World Economic Forum "Global Innovations from the Energy Sector" whitepaper for Okra's shoutout and all the other awesome innovations in the scene!
A few things are pretty clear - humans are using more and more energy, it's becoming harder for traditional infrastructure to cope, and fossil fuels continue to accelerate climate change - that being said, as humans we keep innovating.
As we figure out how to integrate more renewables, smart microgrids are being deployed on the edge, HVDC transmission is being used to interconnect countries and highly automated controls are being used to re-route Giga Watts of power. Super cool - just like data centers being cooled underwater 😉
www.weforum.org/whitepapers/global-innovations-from-the-energy-sector
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Global Innovations from the Energy Sector
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This paper, from the World Economic Forum’s International Energy Community in China, presents an opportunity to reflect on some of the energy industry’s successful innovations since 2010.We are stoked to announce that during this challenging time we secured a convertible note round from funders including Schneider Electric, SADIF / Mekong Strategic Partners and GGG! Thanks for believing in the mission during this testing time! 🙏
It's another step forward in our goal of achieving universal electrification in an environmentally and commercially sustainable way. Last year families connected to Okra solar smart grids reported a 30% income increase. Because they used so much power, we even had to build a higher capacity product thatan now support 4x more power, we expect families to be using electric cooking, washing machines, pumps and so much more this year!⚡️🌍
Thanks and please let us know if you have any questions or ideas for how we can keep doing awesome stuff with off grid electrification.
#okra #okarsolar #powertothepeople #moreenergy #EnergyAccess #energybornbusines
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We're continuing on our journey to expand energy access. | Okra Solar
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We’re continuing on our journey to expand energy access. by Afnan Hannan | May 27, 2020 | Press Release, Update Amidst the challenges posed by Covid-19 we are happy to announce that we’ve just com...Among everything else in the news there's still 900 Million people who don't have energy - so we've gotta ramp things up a bit. If you're passionate about engineering for a positive change and want to help build cutting edge technology that's going to get energy out last mile communities who need it now more than ever, why don't you jump in and see how you go on the Okra test?
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