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.
For generations, people have faced rising energy prices, supply shocks, and dependence on large energy conglomerates, or even 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, the people.
Sunlight becomes sovereignty.
