REScoopVPP seeks to develop a cooperative approach to Virtual Power Plants through open standards, open source software and collaborative licensing of smart energy management tools with high standards for data protection while maintaining independency from commercial interests. The main aim of REScoopVPP is to set-up a community-driven virtual power plant that can actually provide flexibility … Read more

A 3 year innovation partnership project, funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The EBENTO project aims to develop an integrated platform for all actors involved in the building renovation sector.  It will be a one-stop-shop platform to enhance the coordination and management of energy performance contracting (EPC).  The platform will … Read more

Retrofit Calderdale is a year long project based in Todmorden. It focuses on a community learning and sharing programme around how everyday people can plan and start retrofitting their homes to improve comfort, reduce energy bills and lower their carbon footprint. During 2023, the project will bring together experts and residents in monthly workshops and … Read more

The Levenshulme Area Based Retrofit Scheme is a project trialling the savings and benefits of a street-by-street approach to home retrofits, whilst providing householders with significant energy efficiency improvements.  Similarities between homes in a street or neighbourhood allows for repeatable modelling of retrofit works, simplifying the design stage. Homes will be offered a set package … Read more

Running from July 2022 to March 2023, Open Energy Efficiency Savings (OpenEnEffS) was a project adapting and extending the existing US open source CalTRACK methodology for quantifying avoided energy use, using a Metered Energy Savings approach, by combining smart meter data, weather feeds and information on energy efficiency interventions. The UK energy efficiency industry is … Read more

The citizens’ jury will see 12 Greater Manchester residents come together to shape the city region’s energy market.

How can local people uncover the potential to improve the power, heat and transport systems that underlie their homes, public spaces and local area and imagine how these changes could benefit their community? In Oldham Energy Futures, our Energy Commons team will work with two neighbourhoods in Oldham, Sholver and Westwood, to discover, shape, test … Read more

The Greater Manchester Local Energy Market (GMLEM) project has ambitious plans to revolutionise energy networks and help the city-region achieve it’s goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2038. Our role on the project is to empower Greater Manchester (GM) citizens to be involved with developing plans and decision making, ensuring that the local energy market … Read more

Thanks to a grant from the Next Generation Community Energy fund we are building a new business model based on digital energy services with trust and accountability at its core.

Retrofit for All is a one-year Electricity North West funded action research project that seeks to explore alternative approaches to energy efficiency schemes in the context of fuel poverty.  A majority of energy efficiency schemes aimed at people experiencing energy vulnerability have been undertaken utilising Energy Company Obligation funding (ECO), as well as being self-financed … Read more

A partnership led by Carbon Co-op and URBED has been successful in securing £186,000 of funding from the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to run a six-month research and development project exploring the potential for a householder-led approach to domestic energy efficiency retrofit in Greater Manchester.

A four year project which started in late 2018, Energy Empowerment Greater Manchester builds on Carbon Co-op’s track record in deep retrofit services, to establish a citizen-led approach that invests community finance in works carried out by small, local firms – building a sustainable, local retrofit market infrastructure in Greater Manchester.

Take a walk through Manchester’s energy history with Carbon Coop, for an immersive, exploratory and creative way to examine the potential for Northern cities such as Manchester to re-municipalise public services.

Carbon Co-op have secured funding from the UK government and others to support the development of a technical system for automated demand side response of EV chargers, electric heating systems, and smart appliances based on existing commercially available open source technologies.

Shell Out was launched after Carbon Coop were informed that Shell would be sponsoring one of the lead events for Manchester Science Festival, a Science Museum group produced event. We want to highlight the level of public resistance felt around big oil companies being given space to promote their brand within the arts and culture sector organisations.

Tackling fuel poverty is an urgent task. Whilst warmer, healthier and greener homes can be best achieved through improving fabric-based energy efficiency, it is often the most challenging solution. We have been working with residents and Helping Hands, both in Salford, to test the impact of low-cost measures on bills, comfort and health.

mPower is a Horizon 2020 funded, peer-learning programme to assist municipalities in creating a fair, clean and democratic energy future.

The Great Energy Escape is an immersive game, designed and delivered by Energy Democracy Greater Manchester, Carbon Co-op, Dan Hett, M3 Industries and Fieldwork.

A weekend long hacklab that gave innovators the chance to propose new technology, ideas and business models to make our energy system fairer and more equitable.

Energise was a weekend of events around Greater Manchester that took place in Spring 2017. It was an opportunity for people to come together to celebrate low carbon, diverse and just communities.

Plymouth Energy Community commissioned Carbon Co-op to create a simple tablet-based web tool to enable their team of assessors to quickly and simply assess the need for cheap and effective home energy improvements.

DECC and AGMA commissioned Carbon Co-op to deliver a whole house retrofit project for owner occupiers, testing elements of the government’s Green Deal. Householders received a free whole house retrofit assessment, accessed zero percent interest loans, a design package from retrofit specialists URBED and contractors procured and managed by Carbon Co-op.

The Nobel Grid project was an EU Horizon 2020 project which ran from 2014 – 2018. It involved testing a range of smart metering and low carbon technologies, like batteries and smart EV chargers.

Support for community renewable and retrofit projects in Greater Manchester.