We have highlighted in the past the way in which Swell Energy has grabbed hold of the (Virtual Power Plant) VPP conversation in the US by partnering with utilities, now it has added $120 million of investment to lift its 14,000 VPP households up towards 26,000 homes and 600 MWh of battery. Think of Swell Energy as a software company which until now had only $32 million of funding to get off the ground before this deal, and yet it has a business model that has managed to attract to 6,000 Hawaiian homes, and then got the go ahead from Southern California Edison (SCE) to recruit another 8,000 from among its customers. It may not yet have 14,000 homes connected…