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How to Buy Clean Energy on 1,000 Buildings, Easily | VECKTA Energy

How to Buy Clean Energy on 1,000 Buildings, Easily | VECKTA Energy19 Aug46 min

<p>What if commercial businesses could cut clean energy project costs by up to 45%, all while someone else finds, buys, finances, and operates on-site systems on massive real estate portfolios?</p><p><strong>Company bio:</strong></p><p>VECKTA Energy is a technology platform that helps businesses design, procure, finance, and operate on-site energy systems, including solar, batteries, and generators. Its platform can analyze thousands of data points across large property portfolios, identify the best opportunities, and connect buyers with a network of 4,000+ suppliers, developers, equipment providers, and financiers.</p><p><strong>Speaker bio:</strong></p><p>Gareth Evans is the founder and CEO of VECKTA Energy. An environmental scientist by training, his career took him from oil and gas projects in Iraq to leading a global power consulting practice, where he saw firsthand both the vulnerability of traditional energy supply chains and the complexity of buying distributed energy systems.</p><p><strong>Five lessons for entrepreneurs:</strong></p><ul><li>Turn complexity into your moat – Vecta sits between consultants, developers, financiers, equipment providers, and customers. Instead of avoiding a fragmented market, it built technology to coordinate it.</li><li>Align your business model with customer outcomes – Customers pay a subscription, but Vecta also earns a success fee when projects actually get contracted. The company wins more when customers move from analysis to steel in the ground.</li><li>Sell economics before sustainability – Gareth has watched customer priorities shift from sustainability toward cost, predictability, and increasingly reliability. Meet customers where their budgets and pain actually are.</li><li>Follow customers into new markets – Rather than expanding internationally because the TAM looks attractive, Vecta follows existing customers into new geographies, pressure-tests the model, and then decides where to invest at scale.</li><li>Earn your stripes before chasing the title – Gareth’s advice to younger leaders: be patient, learn the craft, take difficult assignments, and build credibility. Responsibility is more valuable when you’ve developed the judgment to handle it.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>--</p><p><br></p><p><strong>1️⃣ Join our confidential CEO community.</strong></p><ul><li>Private CEO group for VC/PE-backed climate tech founders navigating capital, strategy, and scale. Capped at 45 CEOs. </li><li>→ entrepreneursforimpact.com</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>2️⃣ Join 40,000 professionals who get our newsletter.</strong></p><ul><li>Climate tech finance, strategy, leadership. <strong>2-min read. </strong></li><li>→ entrepreneursforimpact.substack.com</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>3️⃣ Leave a podcast review.</strong></p><ul><li>If you got value, take 30 seconds and <strong>do the community a favor</strong>. It helps push more capital and talent toward scalable climate solutions.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>