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.
Controlled rollout
This use case already exists in real homes, and onboarding is now underway.
The product foundation is built around conflicts like this one. Customer onboarding is paced carefully, so the next step is to review your exact device and tariff mix.
Best-fit homes onboard 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 pages are the fastest route from the use case into product-specific details.
Solis
Sign in with SolisCloud to connect supported Solis hybrid inverters without chasing API keys first. 1app.energy then puts live solar, battery, grid, home demand and tariff-aware battery behaviour in one place once verified.
LuxPowerTek
Connect supported LuxPowerTek hybrid inverters so solar, battery, grid and home-demand context can sit beside tariff and EV charging data in 1app.energy.
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.
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 balances when to charge, hold, or export by weighing tariff value, later home coverage, forecast solar, and your protected minimum battery SoC so profitable export should not create later high-rate import.
Priority access
Tell us about your battery and heat pump
Share your heating, battery and tariff setup so we can prioritise the most valuable winter optimisation features.
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