This week Nuvve Holdings and Swell Energy say they are combining to allow electric vehicles to work alongside Virtual Power Plants, with a go to market strategy resting on existing power relationships with utilities. There is an enormous opportunity in both Europe and the US, for utilities to offer up their customers to distributed energy resources, and if small, but smart companies offer the right toolsets for this, they could leverage utility firepower to considerable accelerate their growth curve. Already Swell Energy, simply on the back of well written VPP software, has managed to amass 6,000 homes in Hawaii and 8,000 homes in California, based entirely on a relationship with two utilities. There is a huge benefit to distributed energy…