2023 Clean Heat Accelerator cohort

IMS Heat Pumps

Established in 1997, IMS Heat Pumps has been working with ground, air, and water source heat pumps for over 25 years. Its in-house team designs systems that are then installed by its skilled and knowledgeable engineers.

IMS works with homeowners, architects, and main contractors on self-build, renovation, and replacement boiler projects across Scotland, the North, and the Midlands. The company is MCS accredited and TrustMark approved.

Lochlie Construction

Established in 2014, Lochlie Construction Group is an experienced and trusted building contractor. It works across a variety of commercial and residential projects in Glasgow and the west of Scotland.

The company is family owned and run and offers a wide range of services. These include construction and refurbishment for both private domestic and commercial clients, as well as maintenance services for both the public and private sector. It also offers steel building solutions for the commercial market in partnership with the UK’s leading steel and cladding suppliers.

Renewable Heat Installation and Servicing

Renewable Heat designs, supplies, installs, and maintains heat pump systems. It works with both ground and air source heat pumps in domestic homes, providing services for self-built projects as well as bespoke designs for existing homes.

Soltropy

Soltropy has invented a unique, patented solar thermal heating panel to help decarbonise buildings' space and water heating.

The panel can freeze and overheat without damage. It's modular and uses a continuous flexible pipe to create panels of any width with no interconnections. Because it doesn't use antifreeze, it can use water as the heat exchange fluid and design larger systems without restriction.

Sourcethermal

Sourcethermal started by offering consultancy services for thermal systems development, including design, software, and physical prototyping of refrigeration and heat pump assemblies. It helps UK companies that are eager to enter the market with new products and need a demonstrable proof of concept. 

The company’s ambition is to establish Thermalhub, a prototyping facility in Edinburgh that will help local companies produce new technologies to decarbonise homes and vehicles.

Tantallon Energy 

Tantallon Energy helps customers reduce their carbon footprint by installing and supporting renewable heating technologies and improving the energy efficiency of their homes and businesses.

Trading as Pellets2Heat, Tantallon Energy provides biomass and solar thermal heating products and services. Trading as Smart Home Expert, it installs electric vehicle charging points and helps domestic and commercial clients use smart technologies to manage their energy consumption.

Thermoelectric Conversion Systems

Thermoelectric Conversion Systems Ltd is a technology business that operates from Clydebank Business Park. It provides a wide range of thermoelectric-based power generation products, cooling and heat pump products, and associated technologies to the electronics, automotive, medical, industrial, and academic sectors. 

TownRock Energy

TownRock Energy (TRE) is an award-winning geothermal and renewable heat consultancy based in Scotland. TRE specialises in the valuation of flooded coal mines, hot sedimentary aquifers, granites (hot dry rock), and thermal energy storage. 

TRE has extensive experience evaluating, designing, planning, fundraising for, developing, and operating geothermal heating and cooling schemes. 

Turnbull and Scott

Turnbull and Scott’s heat recovery solutions turn process flue gases into usable heat. This allows the recovered heat to be repurposed for space heating or other processes.

The company is also developing its product offering in thermal storage, heat pumps, and low-temperature emitters by building on its new, efficient electric thermolier.