General

Carbon Co-op People Powered Booklet (2013)Download

Carbon Co-op Manual (2010)Download

Community Energy

Executive Summary: Building community power – How the public sector can collaborate with community energy to scale in GM (2026)Download

Full Report: Building community Power (2026)Download

Building Community Power: Appendix 2 – The potential Download

Building Community Power: Appendix 3 – Emerging policy and regulatory reform Download

Energy efficiency and Retrofit

Oldham Green New Deal Delivery Partnership and feasibility for Area Based Schemes (2024)Download

Retrofit For All Toolkit (2021)Download

People Powered Retrofit – R&D Phase Report (2019)Download

People Powered Retrofit – Business Plan (2021)Download

Powering Down Together – full report (2017)Download

Powering Down Together – short report (2017)Download

The Powering Down Together reports outline learning from our Community Green Deal project – delivering whole house retrofit at scale in Greater Manchester.

Resilient Domestic Retrofit (CIBSE Technical Symposium, 2017)Download

Resilient Domestic Retrofit slides Download

Retrofit Fact File (2016) Download

The Carbon Co-op Brochure (2013)Download

A community approach to retrofit and potential implications for the fuel poverty agenda (written with URBED, 2015)Download

Whole House Retrofit Assessment methodology (2012)Download

The Carbon Coop Manual (2010)Download

Energy Commons

IUK-Pathfinder_Oldham-GND-Delivery-Partnership_Final_Report Download

Westwood Community-Led Energy Plan Download

Sholver-Community-Led-Energy-Plan Download

Greater Manchester Local Energy Market – Citizen Engagement Final Report (2022)

Greater Manchester Local Energy Market Citizen Jury findings (2022)

Community-led Energy Planning (CLEP) toolkit (2022)

GM Energy Futures prospectus (2018) Download

Energy Policy

Carbon Co-op response Unlocking community energy at scale call for evidence (January, 2025)

Carbon Co-op response Regional Energy Strategic Plan policy framework consultation (October 2024)

Carbon Co-op response Government Net Zero Review consultation (October, 2022)Download

Carbon Co-op response Ofgem Call For Input on local energy markets (June 2022)Download

OpenCities Case Study (CIBSE Technical Symposium, 2017)Download

OpenCities Case Study slides (CIBSE Technical Symposium, 2017)Download

Energy Systems

Energy Communities Aggregator Service (ECAS) – Local Flexibility Markets (2018)Download

OpenDSR Phase 1 Feasibility Report (Public Version)Download

AGM minutes & annual reports

Carbon Co-op AGM 2019 event report

Carbon Co-op Ends Report 2018 Download

Carbon Co-op Annual report 2016 Download

Press and media

Commenting on the energy crisis, September 2021