Our delayed Community Green Deal programme kicked off in January with 12 homes receiving a whole house retrofit. It's a unique and ambitious project with average works costs of £40,500 per household and total carbon savings of 1,150 tonnes across the lifetime of the programme. We are working with URBED as technical partners, Rochdale-based construction … Read more
The Big Red Bus Tour of Green Houses is an opportunity to visit homes that have made radical reductions in energy bills and carbon emissions. Everything from solar PV panels and biomass boilers to external wall insulation and triple glazed windows. On the tour you'll visit three householders around Greater Manchester who retrofitted their houses as well … Read more
Do you live in the borough of Stockport? Would you like to reduce your house energy bills, improve energy efficiency and help the environment too? 10am-2pm, Saturday 22nd June, Staircase House, Stockport Town Centre, SK1 1ES Book here: https://carboncoopstockport.eventbrite.co.uk Carbon Co-op is a pioneering, community-owned approach to enabling householders to reduce their bills and their carbon footprint. … Read more
As part of the Generating Success programme, Carbon Co-op are running two half day seminars for community based organisations interested in renewables and retrofit. **NB SEMINAR 1 DATE RE-ARRANGED FOR MON 15TH JULY 2013** Seminar 1 – Developing a Community Renewables Projectmidday-5pm, Monday 15th July 2015MadLab, 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester M4 1HN Have you established … Read more
A new report by the Technology Strategy Board, launched at this year's EcoBuild conference, demonstrates household retrofit to reduce carbon emissions by over 80% is acheivable and at affordable prices with Carbon Co-op technical partners URBED leading the way in the sector. The report, Retrofit Revealed, is an evaluation of the Retrofit for the Future programme which saw different organisations and companies work … Read more
Jonathan Atkinson from Carbon Co-op and Marianne Heaslip from URBED discuss the Carbon Co-op's Community Green Deal retrofit programme, taking households around Greater Manchester towards 80% carbon savings. Watch the video here: http://youtu.be/HuX8EkNqBmI Contents: 1. Introduction to Community Green Dealhttp://youtu.be/HuX8EkNqBmI?t=42s 2. Key elements of the programmehttp://youtu.be/HuX8EkNqBmI?t=5m21s 3. How did we find the householders, what assessments … Read more