Carbon Co-op are a partner of mPower, a European-wide project to facilitate peer learning between municipalities interested in developing citizen-focused energy projects and services. As part of our work, this month we organised a study visit to Plymouth for the members of our mPower peer learning group on energy efficiency retrofit, made up of representatives … Read more
Last week, staff member Aneaka spoke to youth strikers in Manchester on the latest Climate Strike. She drew parallels with her parents’ struggle against racism in the 1970s and commented on what climate justice means to her. Writing in a personal capacity, this long read blog is an adaptation of her speech. This morning, while … Read more
Wondering where to begin your retrofit journey? Come see some houses and see what is possible! Have you got questions about how to go about insulating your home? Do you want to understand how others have approached making home improvements? What to know how others have found trades people? Visit some local eco-homes and find … Read more
We’re currently expanding our team, recruiting a new staff member and a bank of freelance consultants to assist with the delivery of our People Powered Retrofit service. The first point of contact for householders will be a new staff member, the Retrofit Advisor who will also help manage the service, co-ordinating workflow. The deadline for … Read more
In June 2019 as part of the development of People Powered Retrofit, Jonathan Atkinson (Carbon Co-op) and Marianne Heaslip (URBED) took the boat and then train to Nenagh, Tipperary to learn more about the Superhomes Ireland programme and the work Tipperary Energy Agency are doing to deliver whole house retrofit works at scale. In the … Read more
Within our OpenDSR project, Carbon Coop is working to bring together a number of different software elements to support low-cost standards-based demand side response. We are building tools to: report householder energy usage broadcast “power shaping” events which shift energy usage to different times schedule householder appliances to switch on and off during these events … Read more