The wide-ranging benefits of solar energy and batteries are ready to be realised – our new guide is here to help your organisation jumpstart its community energy journey. With support from Manchester City Council, we have developed a guide for community organisations in Manchester on the practicalities and benefits of installing solar panels and batteries. The … Read more
As members of REScoop, the month of May saw Lorenza Casini, Energy Commons team lead, and Jonathan Atkinson, Retrofit team lead, together with colleagues from People Powered Retrofit, head to the 2025 European Energy Communities Forum. It took place in Kraków, Poland, on 20—22 May 2025, during Poland’s six-month Presidency of the European Council, and … Read more
So climate change is something that we obviously all know about, but it also is such a big and wicked problem, it can be hard to grasp and quite difficult to talk about. Join us for episode 2 as we try to understand climate change with our ears, guts and hearts. Featuring spoken word poetry, the concept of climate justice, chilli plants, a cycling imam and strangely a lot of hope.
Join us for episode 1, as we meander the paths of Oldham, past, present and future. Find out what makes Oldham folk walk and wheel and how we could make it even easier for people to leave their cars behind.
We’re very excited to tell you that we have launched our new podcast Power In The City featuring all the brilliant, everyday things people are already doing to tackle climate change – starting in Oldham. The trailer is out now and the first episode, ‘Talking about walking’ is out November 17th. Listen to the trailer … Read more
This is a guest blog from Rebecca Ince, an academic researcher at the University of Birmingham. She has a long term interest in energy efficiency, retrofit and third sector organisations and she also used to work in the construction industry. Rebecca spoke at our Energy Efficiency in Your Community event held with Community Energy England … Read more