Renew Home
Renew Home is a Grid Software & VPPs company founded in 2023 and based in San Francisco, USA. It has raised $100M in total funding, most recently a Growth in 2023.
Renew Home was formed in December 2023 by merging Google's Nest Renew service with OhmConnect under majority owner Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners, which committed $100M while Google retained a minority stake; the combined company launched publicly in May 2024. Its platform connects more than 5 million households and works with over 100 US energy providers, orchestrating nearly 4 GW of flexible capacity as of summer 2025 through programs like Energy Shift and Rush Hour Rewards, with a stated target of 50 GW under management by 2030. In November 2024 it announced a partnership with NRG Energy and Google Cloud to build a roughly 1 GW AI-enabled residential VPP in Texas by 2035, deploying Nest and Vivint smart thermostats at no cost to customers.
Google's Nest energy business spun out under Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners into the nation's largest residential VPP — 5M+ connected households and nearly 4 GW of flexible capacity just as surging power demand pushes utilities toward demand-side grid software.
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