Ben Aylott Carbon Co-op is launching a new project with Dalarna University (Sweden) and Open Energy Monitor to use low cost energy monitors, smart meters, and cutting edge machine learning algorithms to forecast electricity demand and micro-generation in a community smart grid. The project will create a virtual community smart grid by using data collected from energy … Read more
Community energy has been hard hit by cuts to renewable subsidies and it’s time of great change and uncertainty for those in the sector. In this blog post I look at some of the ideas for the way forward for community energy. We will be discussing all these issues and more at our forthcoming event … Read more
Last week I attended Intersolar & EES Europe, a huge three day trade exhibition on all things related to solar power and electrical energy storage. Many of the latest solar and storage products were on show at the fair as well as a preview of what is coming in the next few years. I have … Read more
As part of Carbon Coop’s Green Shift project members and other participants will be encouraged to reduce their electricity use at certain times of day in order to help reduce their carbon footprints. In the electricity industry this kind of scheme is called ‘demand side response’ and is believed to be crucial to helping to … Read more