Around 2 billion people in the world still have little to no access to electricity, with 860 million people living with absolutely no access at all. It’s an almost impossibly expensive task to reach these people with the centralised energy networks we have in place today, often because they’re too slow and economically adequate to reach those locked in energy poverty. SolarVille aims to showcase that, when combined, technologies such as solar panels, micro-grids and blockchain open new opportunities for off-grid systems. It is an ambitious yet fully realisable vision for the future. It’s a working prototype of a miniature neighbourhood completely powered by solar energy. The result is a model of a self-sufficient, community-driven microgrid where people trade renewable, affordable energy from one another according to their individual needs.