Energy
Experts have a tendency to see solutions to fuel poverty, energy security and climate change as competing, conflicting and irresolvable. Yet a movement towards communities collectively owning their own energy has the potential to meet all three of these challenges head on. Our ‘collective power’ model provides a blueprint for how this can be done – building a broad based social movement by combining an appeal to self interest with a commitment to combating climate change.
Latest articles on Energy
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Luciana Berger visits Brixton Energy co-operative (15 Feb 2013)
Luciana Berger visited Repowering South London’s award winning Solar projects in Brixton this month to find out how local co-operative community energy generation can be successful and what the Government should do to support it. The project in Brixton is one of the few community energy schemes that have found success despite this Government’s feed-in-tariff [...]
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Murad Qureshi AM: There is an alternative (8 Feb 2013)
As the Conservative Mayor of London presents his budget that fails to meet the needs of ordinary Londoners, Murad Qureshi AM outlines Labour’s alternative plan to invest in community energy and address fuel poverty. As more people struggle to heat their homes whilst the energy companies continue to increase their profits, the Labour Group on [...]
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Labour Co-operative MPs call for commitment to co-ops in Energy Bill debate (20 Dec 2012)
Yesterday the much heralded Energy Bill received its 2nd reading in Westminster. Parliamentary Officer Joe Fortune reports on the debate where Labour and Co-operative Members of Parliament So the Energy Bill finally returned to the House of Commons this week. This complicated piece of legislation is at least clear on one thing – there is little [...]
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Co-operative Energy – demonstrating the co-operative difference (19 Nov 2012)
The Co-operative Energy, the co-operatively owned energy supplier, has announced it will be dropping its electricity prices by 2% just as other suppliers are raising their prices – British Gas increased theirs by 6% on the same day. Consumer-owned Co-operative Energy has shown it can buck the trend and put customers before profit. This price [...]
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Caroline Flint MP: Introducing the Power Book (6 Nov 2012)
Shadow Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change Caroline Flint MP introduces the Power Book launched last month by the Co-operative Party, SERA, LGiU and the Shadow DECC team. As a new energy industrial revolution unfolds, future technologies, sources of renewable and low carbon energy and their application offer more scope than ever to [...]
