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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Gareth Thomas MP proposing Community Right to Invest in Energy Companies (5 Mar 2012)
Gareth Thomas MP, Chair of the Co-operative Party, is introducing a bill tomorrow that would create a new right for communities to invest in new energy generation projects and to takeover ownership of their local electricity grid supply. The Energy Generation (Planning and Right to Invest) Bill would also establish Community Power Direct to help local [...]
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Ken Livingstone, literally putting power in the hands of Londoners (21 Feb 2012)
Ahead of the London Mayoral elections, Labour candidate Ken Livingstone today pledged to establish a London energy-purchasing co-operative, helping Londoners save money on their fuel bills by purchasing energy collectively on the wholesale markets. The pledge was a policy in the Co-operative Party’s manifesto for the London elections launched by Ken last year and builds [...]
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LabourList takeover: Claudia Beamish MSP on People power (10 Sep 2011)
Labour & Co-operative MSP Claudia Beamish writes for LabourList on the potential for renewable co-operative power in Scotland Renewable energy is a critical resource for our energy and environmental security and the Scottish Labour Party is committed to Scotland’s green energy future. I would advocate an approach to renewables that recognises the role of community [...]
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LabourList takeover: Meg Hillier – Today, we fight for the people shivering under blankets (9 Sep 2011)
Today the Co-op Party meets against a backcloth of rising prices for gas and electricity. As the temperature drops, millions will start to see their energy prices spiral out of their reach. They will face the terrible choice between staying warm and running up debts, and turning off the heating despite plummeting temperatures. Those on [...]
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Energy co-operatives urgently needed in London (11 Aug 2011)
As part of our consultation on our manifesto for the 2012 London elections, Assembly Member Murad Qureshi reports on the opportunity for co-operative energy in the capital. Londoners like the rest of the country are going to be hit this Autumn with record rises of up to almost 20 per cent in energy costs to [...]
