High in the Himalayas in the early 1980s, Renew co-founder Paul witnessed a village run out of kerosene. Cooking stopped. Energy disappeared. Each day, an elderly woman climbed the mountainside carrying firewood on her back, not out of choice, but survival. Watching her revealed a truth that never left him, energy is freedom, or the lack of it.

Decades later, that understanding has shaped our philosophy and the foundation of Renew.

For generations, people have been exposed to increasing energy prices, supply shocks, and dependence on regimes that weaponise energy supply. The cost is not only economic, but systemic, instability that ripples through markets, governments, and people’s everyday life.

When energy is produced where you live, something shifts. Homes become less exposed, communities more resilient, and control begins to return to where it belongs. Sunlight becomes sovereignty.

Renew was founded by father and son, Paul and Jack, shaped by different eras but guided by the same belief. You do not damage the place you call home and call it progress.