Our ‘Powering Down Together’, is published to coincide with Community Energy Fortnight 2017. It reports on the retrofit of 12 owner-occupied solid-walled homes typical of Manchester’s housing stock. Read the summary report here (http://bit.ly/2hFULYf) and the full version here.(http://bit.ly/2vIZsGe) Here are 15 things that we have learnt from the project: 1.You can halve your home’s … Read more
Our recent Info Night was held in The Briton’s Protection on July 20 and we discussed the positive and negative aspects of the smart meter rollout which is currently under way. Our two speakers were Scott Alison, Smart Meters Implementation Manager at Electricity North West and Ben Aylott, Energy System Analyst at Carbon Coop. Many … Read more
Carbon Coop joined trade unionists, renewable energy practitioners and divestment campaigners for a day of protest action outside the gates of Cuadrilla’s flagship fracking site at Preston New Road, Lancashire on July 14, 2017. Against the wishes of local communities, the government’s push for a ’new dash for gas’ has progressed and new fracking sites … Read more
Can changing the way we think of climate change help us combat it? The meetup hosted by MEEN and Zero Carbon Manchester provided some interesting answers.
This year's Community Energy Conference 2017 took place in Manchester and Carbon Co-op was out in force at the event, with a stall, a keynote speech, the launch our new report on Community Green Deal and plenty of members in attendance. After two years of annual conferences in the South, organisers Community Energy England (CEE) … Read more
Insights from the DIY retrofit for homeowners’ course, 6th, 7th and 20th May 2017, by Kate Simpson.