A UK co-operative has been set up in Manchester to generate clean energy from social housing projects, with the potential to generate up to £900 for each household a year by selling the power back to the national grid.

The initiative, dubbed the Horizon Energy Corporative, is being put together by clean energy specialist EIC Partnership, in partnership with social landlords and Greater Manchester City Region. EIC managing director Andrew Melchior said the co-operative approach modelled by his firm has been endorsed by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change.