Chris Cooper

Is this the world’s smartest energy services company?

Kraftwerke provide commercial energy customers with the opportunity to buy and sell their electricity, allowing them to benefit from the…

November 4, 2015

A German energy crowd-funding start-up that aims to make community energy easy

CrowdEner.gy aims to make community energy easy. But recent government changes to the feed-in-tariff have made it a difficult market.

October 29, 2015

BürgerWerke – retailer linking citizen owned renewable projects with consumers

BürgerWerke is an innovative energy retailer start-up aiming to ‘close-the-loop’ on citizen energy in Germany. Chris Cooper pays them a…

October 28, 2015

The Priest who broke the law (for solar), and the village that bought back the grid

Schönau. Village of 2500 inhabitants in the Black Forest. A beautiful remote alpine village that bought back its grid and…

October 28, 2015

What the Tesla Powerwall battery means for households

So, what does Tesla's battery storage offering, the Powerwall, mean for consumers. We include a unique online calculator to help…

May 7, 2015