An energy system vision for a community energy-led future?

A cropped illustration showing the future energy system highlighting the role for policy makers.

Estimated reading 19 minutes) The energy transition is happening, what needs to be discussed now is what it looks like on the ground and what role Community Energy plays in it. Is the Community Energy movement’s vision of the transition one in which individual prosumers are liberated to become their own energy trading entities, one … Read more

Volunteer at The Great Energy Escape

On Wednesday 25th October we're launching a brand new immersive game about all things energy at Manchester Science Festival. To get a full sense of it check out the dedicated webpage. We're now looking for a couple of volunteers to help out each day with the running of the game. We wondered whether you'd be … Read more

A Tale of Three Retrofits

Members socailising

This autumn social saw members get together for an informative and enjoyable evening at Leaf on Portland St. We heard from three very different households who have recently completed (or almost completed!) their retrofits, and were inspired by each in their varied considerations and approaches. If you missed the event audio recording and presentations below. … Read more

EcoHome Lab July 2017: Adventures in Home Automation

Matt reports back from the EcoHome Lab field trip. We first met Mike Wilson in 2016 at an EcoHome Lab meetup session 'From Monitoring to Control' exploring the recent integration of the building blocks of home automation (MQTT, NodeRED and OpenHAB) into the EmonPi, the central base-station for the OpenEnergyMonitor system (view session presentation). In … Read more