Community energy has been hard hit by cuts to renewable subsidies and it’s time of great change and uncertainty for those in the sector. In this blog post I look at some of the ideas for the way forward for community energy. We will be discussing all these issues and more at our forthcoming event … Read more
Have you struggled to find a good trades person? Have you asked for quotes that have come back wildly different? Are you puzzled as to why your contractor seems to be taking a while to get back to you? This event aims to support a better understanding and communication between trades people and their clients. What makes a good contractor and what makes a good client?
WHAT: Discussion on new services Carbon Co-op can offer to support more retrofit journeys
WHEN: November 16th, 7-9pm
WHERE: The Britons Protection, 50 Great Bridgewater St, Manchester M1 5LE
COST: Free
TO BOOK: https://2050-retrofit-possible.eventbrite.co.uk
On the 13th of October, 5:30pm, at Madlab, 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester, M4 1HN. Join us at meetup This month we'll be finishing off soldering up the new, web connected energy monitors we built last time and experimenting with creating easy to use energy dashboards. If you were not there but want to build your own open source HomeEnergyMonitor … Read more
Loaded with soldering irons, electronic components, tools and pure clean ready to go printed boards we got into our mission: build our own Home Energy Monitor systems. Again, time goes by and I don't take into my blogging role, but everybody in CarbonCoop is nice and I don't get told off, for now 😉 My … Read more
On the 4th November Carbon Coop is holding a one day conference of discussion and collaboration on future energy system opportunities, innovation and change. You can read more about the event on our website at https://carbon.coop/news/2016-09-30/hacking-energy-system. To make this day a success we are looking for volunteers to help out with odd jobs such as … Read more