The Greater Manchester Spatial Framework sets out a strategy for the development of the city region's physical infrastructure over the next 20 years. It's important to Carbon Co-op and our members because it will define how existing housing is managed (and new housing built) over the next two decades as well as how we meet … Read more
This December, Jonathan Atkinson of Carbon Co-op was lucky enough to be invited to take part in a two day, community energy delegation visiting Brussels on the invitation of Green MEP for the South West Molly Scott Cato. The visit fulfilled several purposes: a chance to meet MEPs and get a better understanding of the … Read more
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
In November 2016 Carbon Co-op contracted Dan Chaplin to run a three day DIY Retrofit for Homeowners course. Running the course was a first for us, and a part of our effort to provide more support to those working on low cost DIY retrofits. The course covered 6 key areas:1. Key principles2. Airtightness and draughtproofing3. … Read more
Below is Carbon Co-op's response to Manchester Climate Change Agency's Manchester Climate Change Strategy 2016-50, the full call can be found here: http://www.manchesterclimate.com/2050consultation October 2016 1. About Carbon Co-op Carbon Co-op is a not-for-profit community energy organisation based in Manchester. Operating since 2007, we enable householders to makelarge-scale reductions in their energy usage. We have … Read more
It felt a bit quieter this time but still interesting with some hands on work and presentations about emonCMS dashboards, how energuy monitoring changed my :p and MyHomeEnergyPlanner, the tool for house assessments we are developing in CarbonCoop. The electronics of the day Duncan and Shahzad had finished building their monitors in previous sessions. But … Read more