The Swedish clean energy-tech company, Aira, announced its acquisition of Garant Wärmesysteme marking Aira’s expansion outside of the Berlin-Brandenburg region to Saxony and Bavaria in Germany.
This strategic move is aligned with Aira’s ambition to serve 5 million households across Europe, whereof 1 million in Germany, with affordable clean energy-tech solutions over the next 10 years.
The well-established, family-owned plumbing, heating, and cooling company Garant Wärmesysteme is an ideal partner for Aira, given its consistent focus on renewable energy solutions, digitised operations and 80 strong team of clean energy experts in Glauchau and Munich. Additionally, Garant has expertise in installing and planning solar systems, adding another dimension to the expanding Aira product portfolio.
Together with Garant, Aira, will enable even more households to invest in the clean energy-tech of the future using Aira’s unique, subscription focused business model. With Aira’s all-inclusive monthly payment plan which removes upfront costs and 30 days from order to install, the partnership increases accessibility and affordability of intelligent heat pumps, helping customers reduce their carbon emissions by 75 per cent. This number can increase to 100 per cent when used in conjunction with fossil-free sources of electricity such as solar power.
Today, 70 per cent of private households still heat their homes with oil or gas, which makes residential heating account for 11 per cent of total CO₂ emissions in Germany. Aira’s investment will support the German federal Government’s ambition is to accelerate heat pump adoption with the new recently passed legislation GEG, which aims to make German households climate neutral by 2045. Aira’s commitment to install one million heat pumps in Germany within the next 10 years, helps to reduce Germany’s dependence on foreign gas, reduce CO₂ emissions whilst also cutting consumer energy bills.
