Climate CEOs (formerly Entrepreneurs for Impact): Scaling Climate Tech Startups Fossil-Free Heat Pumps: $30M R&D and 200°C Industrial Decarbonization — Heaten
Learn how Geir Robstad and Heaten are replacing fossil fuels in heavy industry with high-temp heat pumps, unlocking gigaton-scale GHG reductions and cheaper clean process heat.
⭐ My guest today is Geir Robstad, Cofounder of Heaten, a very high-temperature heat pump that can achieve 200°C process temperature at low costs while being completely independent of fossil fuels. They are backed by leading climate tech investors such as Azolla Ventures.---
🎙️ In this episode, we talked about:
- How their technology can reduce GHG emissions by 1 gigaton by 2050
- Why governments should make it illegal to not use waste heat
- What it means for decentralized heat to be the elephant in the room
- Their nine-year journey of R&D and $30M of investment
- Why they needed to pivot in 2017 to their current technology and customer use case
- How they help industrial players in chemicals, paper, and district heating create process heat at lower costs with clean energy
- The massive benefits of using COTS (What’s this? Gotta listen to find out!)
- Why it’s a good thing for you to have competitors
- And lots more
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