Scottish green energy installer secures scaling investment

Aventus Eco has secured investment to invest in training, new jobs and to scale its operations.

The company, which has bases in Edinburgh and Glasgow, installs air source heat pumps, hot water cylinders and solar panels with battery storage for privately-owned homes across central Scotland.

Tech entrepreneur Ed Broussard – also managing director at AI firm Tomoro – has backed the business with up to £100,000.

He commented: “To get close to the governments targets and make a significant impact on decarbonisation we need to go much faster as a country.

“For many of the homes in Scotland, you will be able decarbonise your home without upfront costs and start making monthly savings immediately.”

Replacing gas boilers with heat pumps is core to the Scottish Government’s green targets, with more than one million homes needed to be connected to a zero or low emission heating system by 2030.

But the country is currently falling well short of that target, with only 124,000 installed last year.

Aventus Eco managing director Sean Hogan said: “This investment allows us to scale the business, bringing highly trained engineers to our customers who are entirely focused on green technologies.

“When systems like air source heat pumps and solar panels aren’t installed properly, they can get a bad name, so we’re here to change that by providing expert installation, quality workmanship and educating our customers.”

This isn’t Broussard’s first step into home decarbonisation, having invested in heating engineer training and technology company Heat Geek in January 2023.

“To successfully decarbonise the country’s heating we need tech hyper-scalers like Heat Geek who are pioneering new technology to make installations cheaper, faster and more efficient,“ he explained. “But we also need highly skilled installers in the local area who can carry out the work in your home – that’s why I’ve backed Aventus Eco and see it as so important to Scotland’s decarbonisation journey.”

Hogan added: “All of our heat pump installs will be led by Heat Geek-trained installers.

“To maximise the efficiencies which lead to savings, it’s vital customers get optimal system designs by the highest trained installers in the business; and that’s exactly what we’re focused on delivering.”

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