Published

2 years ago

February 8, 2024

Alice Rush

Swell Energy has acquired Renu Energy Solutions, with the goal of enabling VPP deployment in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic markets through the combination of Renu’s project development capabilities and Swell’s financing and technology platform.

“With the growing demand for renewable energy in the region, this transaction marks a pivotal milestone for both companies in furthering our shared mission to enable retail customers and utilities to collaboratively benefit from DERs,” says Suleman Khan, CEO of Swell. “With Renu’s market leadership, there is an opportunity for us to work with interested utilities from the outset. Together, we are exploring how virtual power plants can enhance local grid needs and bring cost savings, greater resiliency and climate benefits to the communities we now collectively serve.”

The acquisition includes Renu’s solar and storage maintenance subsidiary, Sun Service Specialists, which maintains distributed energy resources) across the East Coast.

With Renu serving as a regional hub, Swell’s channel partner program provides other residential and commercial solar companies access to certain resources and offerings, including the opportunity to become VPP co-developers.

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Swell Acquires Renu, Eyes VPP Expansion in Select Markets

Renewable Energy

The Catastrophic Shift in America’s Impact on the World

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7 hours ago

March 22, 2026

Alice Rush

It’s not as if the United States has held the moral high ground throughout its history, with its slavery, the butchering of the Indians, Jim Crow, the support of tyrannical dictatorships around the globe, and the corrupt suppression of the working class in favor of Trump’s billionaire donors.

Yet, it was very recently that the entire nation became a force for the destruction of civil society.

The Catastrophic Shift in America’s Impact on the World

Renewable Energy

We’re Running Out of Time

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2 days ago

March 20, 2026

Alice Rush

There really are threats to human civilization that seem to be mounting in intensity:

• World fascism. (If it can happen in the U.S., it could conceivably happen anywhere.)

• Environmental collapse.

• Malicious use of AI.

• Pandemics, as misinformation on vaccinations spread and the frozen tundra melts, releasing pathogens never seen by humans.

• Nuclear war.

Addressing the point made at left, is there any scenario in which world governments agree to cooperate so as to stave off the end of an organized society here on Earth? One supposes so, though it sounds far-fetched in today’s world in which the leaders of most of the 200+ sovereign nations are trying so desperately to cling to power.