Heat pump and solar coordination
Heat-pump homes need to know how solar generation offsets heating demand and when battery storage should protect the property from non-solar hours.
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 all-electric homes where heating demand is large enough to reshape the rest of the energy system.
Friction today
- Heating load changes the economics of the battery and tariff strategy.
- Solar output rarely lines up cleanly with heating demand peaks.
- Most tools show heat-pump data and energy data separately.
What improves
- See heating and hot-water demand in the same timeline as solar, battery and grid behaviour.
- Relate winter import spikes to specific heating patterns rather than guessing.
- Build a clearer whole-home strategy for storage, reserve and comfort.
Typical workflow
- 1
Connect the heat pump, tariff and any available solar or battery devices.
- 2
Review how heat demand influences import, reserve and solar self-use.
- 3
Use that context to tune comfort and cost strategy with fewer blind spots.
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.
Enphase
Connect Enphase systems to bring microinverter solar data into the same decision layer as tariffs, batteries, EV charging and heating demand.
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 Go battery and EV optimisation
Octopus Go is simpler than Agile on paper, but homes still need to know whether the fixed off-peak window is serving the car, the battery and the house in the right order.
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
Show us your heating setup
Tell us about your heat pump, solar and tariff mix so we can prioritise the most useful coordination features for your home.
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