GMCR

Greater Manchester Community Renewables (GMCR) has launched a share offer to raise £186,000 to put solar panels on schools and community buildings across Greater Manchester. GMCR, a community group established in January 2015, plans to install solar panels on Irlam Primary School, Primrose Hill Primary School in Ordsall and The…

Update: Our share offer is due to launch to Monday 16th May – watch this space!

Greater Manchester Community Renewables (GMCR) [1] and Moss Community Energy (MCE) [2] are helping Salford boost its position in the nationwide renewable energy league by installing solar panels on three schools in the area. Hot on the heels of Wigan, Rochdale and Stockport, Salford is current ranked 171st out of…

GMCR has signed up to the Green Alliance Clean Energy Declaration: We Want Clean Energy to Power the North. It concludes “the 2016 Budget must enable us to develop and grow renewables for our region into the 2020s. The UK government should be celebrating clean energy as core to its…

Ali Abbas, one of our directors, had a letter published in the Manchester Evening News regarding the GM Energy Pledge (http://gm-communityenergypledge.org.uk/)

The people of Greater Manchester are being asked to show their love for locally-owned clean energy by signing a new community energy pledge. The pledge is online at http://gm-communityenergypledge.org.uk/ Community energy groups from across Greater Manchester have come together to launch the pledge on a website ahead of Valentine’s Day…

[Press Release] As world leaders gather in Paris to negotiate an international climate deal, Greater Manchester Community Renewables and Salford City Council signed an agreement on the 4th December to work together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by installing solar panels on a number of schools across Salford. [1] Greater…

Along with numerous other community energy groups we have signed a letter to the Chancellor opposing the government’s proposed changes to EIS and SITR, which allow investors in community energy projects to claim tax relief. You can read the text of the letter here.

As you can see from previous posts, the Feed-in Tariff is an important source of income for producers of green energy, and it’s taking a beating at the moment! GMCR will be submitting a response to the Government’s latest proposals. We also encourage you to make your voice heard in…

The Government has published its response to the consultation to remove pre-registration and pre-accreditation confirming that these will be removed with effect from 1 October 2015. Following this confirmation and the Government’s announcement last month that it plans to cut the Feed in Tariff (FiT), September saw a period of…

The Government is planning to slash the amount of funding available for clean energy schemes, which helps millions of people benefit from solar, wind and water power, whilst still supporting the investment in fossil fuels such as fracking and oil and gas as well as nuclear power. The plans are…

GMCR has submitted a response to the DECC consultation to remove pre-accreditation. We have urged the Government to retain this facility, particularly for community groups. A couple of weeks after this consultation closed, another commenced, proposing to slash the Feed-in Tariff payable for generators of clean energy with effect from…