Having just returned from the a UK Trade and Investment sponsored market visit to Shanghai and Beijing you can rest assured I am not resting on laurels.

The visit proved to be more than fruitful in conjoining the aspirations of the HEC and its vision of distributed generation across the Greater Manchester area and building partnerships with other city regions as well as technical delivery and system designers for smartgrid technologies.

Having connected with a number of key allies and discussed the aspirations of the Horizon Energy Cooperative, it would appear that there is intense interest in the project from a number of potential partners and allies in China.

Watch this space for further developments.