Cheap, clean and efficient: The firm leading Cambodia’s solar revolution

Sitting in her bright and airy 17th floor office, Rithya Menon, Okra Smart Solar’s lead firmware engineer, checks the frequently updating data telling her everything about how well their community services are operating. “I saw in the data that there was a problem with batteries going down each day. They should be recharging to full power,” she says, referring to Okra’s solar charged batteries running households living off the electrical grid.