The Energy Innovation Agency brings together the combined resources and services of the founding partners to deliver the innovative solutions required to meet Greater Manchester’s 2038 carbon neutral target.
Greater Manchester is one of the country's most successful city-regions, home to more than 2.8 million people. The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is made up of the ten Greater Manchester councils and Mayor, who work with other local services, businesses, communities and other partners to improve the city-region.
We face major environmental challenges that threaten the health and prosperity of our region. Greater Manchester is taking action with the Five-Year Environment Plan. The plan sets out our long-term environmental vision – to be carbon neutral by 2038 – and the urgent actions we all need to take in the next five years to help achieve this.
We are an award-winning, accredited, social enterprise with a mission to enable growth, create jobs and improve lives. Our vision is for a society where economic growth and prosperity is inclusive, sustainable and leaves no person or community behind.
The Growth Company has a proven track record in scaling innovative businesses and bringing new products to market through GC Business Growth Hub, and in facilitating the movement of larger companies to the GM region through Manchester’s Inward Development Agency MIDAS.
The University of Manchester is pioneering the energy systems of the future so that we can continue to heat our homes, light our buildings and travel. Our expertise is enhancing the efficiency and viability of sustainable energy sources such as solar, wind, tidal and bioenergy.
We work closely with our local region on projects such as the UK’s largest ever trial of heat pumps. We’re finding out more about how today’s urban society uses energy, blending expertise from engineering and the social sciences to learn more about demand and how it can be met.
The University of Salford is excited to be building on our world-leading Energy House research and testing facility to create Energy House 2.0. Through commercial and grant funded research, Energy House Laboratories help businesses understand how effective their products and services are in lowering consumers’ carbon footprint and reducing energy bills.
The new £16M facility will investigate the future of housing, looking at issues such as off-site construction, smart homes, and energy use. It builds on the work Salford has already done with Salford Energy House, a project which has enabled key changes to UK housing stock to save energy.
Please get in touch if you would like to work with the Agency and learn more about the support available to help accelerate the deployment of low carbon solutions.
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