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Scottish Enterprise: Clean Heat Expert Support

Do you want to find out if your company could win business in the “Clean Heat market?” Scottish Enterprise is offering you free access to expert advice from industry experts EP Consult Energies.

'Clean heat' refers to heat pumps, heat networks, building energy efficiency products, enabling technologies including data & digital, and more.

Support Available from Scottish Enterprise

Companies with a base in Scotland that are considering diversifying into the clean heat market or are already in the market and developing new products or services, can now get free access to expert advice via Scottish Enterprise and the industry experts EP Consult Energies

Our industry specialists can help companies of all sizes and types, from a variety of sectors. This 1 to 1 support can be tailored to your needs, but can help you to:

• Understand whether your capabilities are or could be made transferrable to the clean heat sector 
• A review of the market opportunities, and competitors
• Understand the scale and nature of the opportunity and its relevance for your business
• Gain a realistic overview of the potential benefits of diversifying into clean heat or expanding into another part of the sector 

The Clean Heat Expert Support provides you with up to three days of free consultancy with an industry expert. The industry expert will develop a high-level understanding of your current areas of operation, capabilities and ambitions. They will then create a short, tailored report specific to the needs of your company. 

For further information, and to access the short application form, please click here.

Key buyers for the low carbon heating sector include:

• Social housing – the Energy Efficiency Standard for Social Housing (EESSH) was introduced to improve the energy efficiency of social housing in Scotland
• Public sector buildings and landowners
• Commercial properties and industrial companies, which will require low carbon heat to achieve their net zero ambitions
• New build properties from 2024 onwards cannot include natural gas boilers and instead must have zero direct emissions alternatives such as heat pumps