Business Green: The Labour Party is poised to include proposals for new energy co-operatives that could help households reduce energy bills and install green technologies as part of its election manifesto. According to reports in the Guardian, energy and climate change secretary Ed Miliband, who also has a central role in drawing up the party’s manifesto, is keen to see the UK emulate energy co-operative schemes in the US and Europe that have seen neighbourhoods join forces to negotiate cheaper …