Skavenji wants to put consumption of self-produced power within everyone’s reach, by making production of small amounts of electricity as simple and freely available as growing tomatoes on your balcony. While this small-scale domestic production does not allow you to escape the distribution system or your supplier, it nevertheless meets a latent need for self-sufficiency and constitutes a first symbolic step, as visible and as gratifying as creating a vegetable garden. The Skavenji approach has the same social and educational benefits and also marks a creative commitment to sustainable consumption. That’s why our goal was to develop a plug-and- play, open source solution that is sustainable, low-tech, frugal and adaptable, allowing you to create your own renewable energy and play a part in energy transition, both individually and collectively. The Skavenji solution is based on three elements: 1. A box supplied with a small solar panel, able to be easily sited in a living room, office or classroom, and to which it is possible to connect small sources of electricity of various kinds and origins, simply and safely. This “home” production can then be freely consumed in situ. 2. A mobile app, to view your production and the savings you’ve made but also your effect on the environment. 3. An open platform to which everyone can contribute, with tutorials to learn how to install your own sources of renewable energy: a second-hand solar panel or hand-crafted wind turbine on the balcony, a bike generator in your living room etc. In short, whatever inspiration you get from your imagination! The challenge here is therefore to help an “energy makers” ecosystem to emerge, and to promote innovation, education and civic re-appropriation of energy issues. SKAVENJI users will thus have this opportunity to be active producers, produce electricity locally and become “energy makers”.