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Energy Shift Capacity: 4GW of New Flexible Capacity Ready to be Rewarded Now

Millions of households have turned on Energy Shift to manage energy costs, usage, and support their communities. New study from Renew Home shows that consumers' choices add up to something very real: capacity at the size of multiple power plants.

8/14/2025

Rush Hour Rewards Participants Received More Than $40 Million in Rewards Last Year

3/24/2025

Renew Home Announces Renew Home VPP

11/7/2024

NRG, Renew Home and Google Cloud Announce Partnership

5/9/2024

Google’s Nest Renew and OhmConnect Combine to Form Renew Home, the Nation’s Largest Residential Virtual Power Plant

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As utility costs rise, can ‘background’ smart thermostats offer relief?

Millions of smart thermostats auto-adjust temperatures to cut power bills or prioritize clean energy. Some utilities are mulling how that tech can help the grid, too.

The most innovative energy companies of 2026

Renew Home is listed among Fast Company’s most innovative energy companies of 2026.

Energy Changemakers Podcast: How Your Home May Save the Grid

Host Elisa Wood sits down with Ben Brown, CEO of Renew Home, to explore how millions of ordinary homes are being quietly transformed into virtual power plants.

Renew Home to roll out new VPP features this summer

Renew Home will work with energy providers to incorporate up-to-date tariffs and grid or capacity constraints into an aggregated resource that can dispatch within five minutes, the company said.

NRG, Renew Home aim for 1-GW Texas VPP by 2035

The companies will begin installing Nest and Vivint smart thermostats in Texas homes next spring. They eventually hope to supply capacity equivalent to the peak demand of 200,000 average homes.

AI Thermostats Pitched for Texas Homes to Relieve Stressed Grid

NRG and Renew Home partner in initiative using Google Cloud Program to tap houses to shave off 1 gigawatt power by 2035.

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