Using battery storage to buffer heat-pump demand
For all-electric homes, battery storage can protect comfort and cost, but only if the reserve strategy is tuned to real heating behaviour and tariff opportunity.
Private beta rollout
This use case already exists in real homes, even if rollout is still selective.
The product foundation is built around conflicts like this one. Public onboarding is being paced carefully, so the next step is to review your exact device and tariff mix.
Best-fit homes are invited first
Homes where multiple devices already interact are reviewed first — rollout is selective and supported.
Combination creates the value
Whole-home value comes from how devices work together, not from any single device in isolation.
Setup review comes first
Tell us what is installed so we can review the safest and most effective rollout path for your specific configuration.
Best fit
For households using a battery to manage the peaks and unpredictability created by electric heating.
Friction today
- A battery can be emptied too early if export or off-peak logic ignores later heating demand.
- Heating-heavy evenings make reserve strategy more important than generic arbitrage advice.
- Most products do not connect battery logic to actual heat-pump behaviour.
What improves
- See heating demand, reserve protection and grid import in the same operating view.
- Understand whether the battery is actually reducing expensive heating-related import.
- Choose a strategy that balances comfort, resilience and tariff opportunity.
Typical workflow
- 1
Connect the heat pump, battery and tariff.
- 2
Measure how heating demand affects reserve needs and evening import.
- 3
Use that evidence to tune protection floors and cheap-window charging.
Related integrations
These device and tariff pages are the fastest route from the use case into product-specific details.
Solis
Connect Solis hybrid inverters to 1app.energy to see live solar, battery, grid and home demand in one place, then automate battery charge decisions around tariff windows.
Daikin
Bring Daikin heat-pump data into the same operating layer as your battery, solar and smart tariff so heating demand stops being a blind spot.
Octopus Energy
Connect Octopus tariffs to turn raw device telemetry into cost-aware actions, daily savings reporting and smarter battery decisions.
Vaillant
Vaillant households often need the same thing as Daikin households: a single operating layer that explains how heating demand interacts with tariffs, solar and storage.
Related tariff guides
These tariff pages explain the pricing context that usually drives this use case.
Octopus Agile automation
Octopus Agile changes import price every half hour. The real question for battery, EV and heat-pump homes is whether the house can respond to those price signals without creating new conflicts.
Octopus Flux battery strategy
Octopus Flux only works well when battery charging, reserve and export behaviour are coordinated properly, because export value is only part of the economics.
Octopus Tracker visibility
Octopus Tracker is simpler than Agile, but homes still need to relate daily rate changes to heating, charging and battery behaviour.
Smart controls that usually fit this problem
These mode pages explain what battery strategy tends to work best once this use case shows up in a real home.
Home First
A simpler home-first mode. It prioritises running the home from your own solar and battery first, minimises grid dependence, and avoids optimiser-led battery export.
Autopilot
The best starting mode for most homes. Autopilot decides when to charge, hold, or export by balancing tariff value, home coverage, refill confidence, and your protected minimum battery SoC. Choose Balanced for a calmer default or Aggressive for stronger value seeking.
Priority access
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