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

In this video, Matt, Jonathan and Marianne discuss People Powered Retrofit, Community Energy and the potential for the sector in 2019 and beyond.

We recently introduced the Carbon Co-op Hub, in this follow up post Peter Armstrong, a member of our software engineer team, discusses a key feature of the hub that lets members view the gas and electricity usage in their homes. To use this feature, you will need a smart meter. Not all smart meters work … Read more

Here at Carbon Co-op, our in house software engineering team has been working on our online presence for a little while now. We’ve been thinking about what digital services we provide now, and what new services we want to provide in the future – and we’ve been laying the groundwork for them. This is the … Read more

On Saturday 22nd June, 2019 at the Community Energy Conference 2019 [1], Greater Manchester-based social enterprise Carbon Co-op published its report recommendations for kicking starting a new market for domestic, owner occupier retrofit in the UK using trusted community energy intermediaries, on site training for local contractors and engaging householders through innovative community-based social marketing … Read more

We’re looking forward to a busy day at the Community Energy Conference 2019 in Sheffield this weekend (Saturday 22nd June), we’ll be talking about retrofit, new online energy tools, local flexibility and a range of other things, here’s an outline of what we’ll be up to. People Powered Retrofit project report Since Autumn 2018, we’ve … Read more