- Thomas Farquhar, co-founder and Chief Commercial Office (CCO) of Heatio, is our twelfth guest on Positive Energy
- Heatio provides smart home energy management systems
- It aims to make homes more energy-efficient and reduce household energy costs
- Watch the podcast on YouTube or listen on Spotify below
Watch episode 12 of Positive Energy – powered by The Eco Experts, with Thomas Farquhar, CEO of Heatio, in conversation with Max Schwerdtfeger and Roland Ellison
For episode 12 of Positive Energy, we’re proud to welcome Thomas Farquhar, co-founder and CCO of Heatio. Thomas is an expert in his field, having previously worked at Evergreen Energy as Head of Sales and Marketing before founding Heatio.
Heatio, as summed up by Thomas, is “making clean, affordable energy accessible to everyone, by making homes smarter.” The company is relatively new to the clean energy industry, founded in April 2022. Its goal is to help UK homeowners improve energy efficiency by up to 60% by using the latest green technology.
According to a company statement, it “combines property insights, funding checks, and smart-meter integration to make the path from enquiry to installation smoother and more reliable.”
Heatio’s Flexx platform takes a complete energy profile of a home in order to supply a customer with the information they need to reduce energy consumption. It also shows customers how to adopt and optimise renewable technology, including solar panels and heat pumps.
In this episode of Positive Energy we spoke to Thomas about how the UK’s clean energy sector has evolved and what it still has to learn from Europe. Thomas also gave us an insight into why heat pumps are part of the ‘culture wars’ in the UK and the apprehensiveness people have towards installation.
As well as heat pumps, we took a deep dive into AI and technology and how it helps to manage our energy consumption more efficiently. From creating a ‘digital twin’ to predict energy use and using smart meter data for heat loss calculations, to low-carbon tech subscriptions and the role of green mortgages, Thomas left no stone unturned when answering our questions.
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Watch previous episodes of Positive Energy
Episode 1 – Bean Beanland
Episode 2 – Ramin Hakimov
Episode 3 – Chris Hewett
Episode 4 – Claire Gardner
Episode 5 – Pauric Foody
Episode 6 – Leah Robson
Episode 7 – Bean Beanland (again!)
Episode 8 – Lucy Shea
Episode 9 – Simon Peat
Episode 10 – Jan Rosenow
Episode 11 – Richard Hauxwell-Baldwin
