1Komma5 Grad posts record October orders, signals resilient demand trend

• German cleantech firm 1Komma5 Grad booked about €105 million in October orders, its highest monthly intake, underscoring durable demand for home energy systems.

German cleantech player 1Komma5 Grad reported roughly €105 million in orders for October, the highest monthly intake in the company’s history. The performance points to resilient demand for residential clean-energy packages—rooftop solar, home batteries, heat pumps and EV charging—even as consumers face higher interest rates and macro uncertainty.

The company’s pitch has been consistent: bundle products, simplify installation and financing, and orchestrate assets with software so households save on bills and support the grid. For customers, that means one provider handling design, permitting, installation, monitoring and service. For 1Komma5 Grad, a standardized kit and repeatable workflows shorten lead times and improve margins, while a growing fleet enables virtual power plant (VPP) services that aggregate thousands of small devices into a dispatchable resource.

A record month suggests a few drivers. First, policy tailwinds: smart-meter rollout, incentives for heat pumps and rooftop PV, and dynamic tariffs that reward flexible consumption. Second, consumer behavior: energy cost volatility and decarbonization commitments from homeowners’ associations and municipalities. Third, supply-chain stabilization: better availability of inverters, batteries and heat pumps compared with prior bottlenecks, allowing the company to convert quotes into installs more quickly.

Sustaining growth will hinge on the unglamorous details—installer training, grid-interconnection coordination for meter swaps, and quality controls that keep call-backs low during a rapid ramp. Software remains the quiet differentiator: algorithms that co-optimize bill savings with grid-services revenue, protect battery life, and schedule heat-pump loads around solar production or low-carbon grid hours.

The VPP angle matters system-wide. Aggregated home batteries charge at midday when solar surges, then discharge into evening peaks, providing fast frequency response and voltage support. At scale, that flexibility dampens price spikes and reduces the need for peaker plants, while giving customers transparent rewards beyond simple bill reduction.

A single record month doesn’t make a year, and seasonality plus supply-chain surprises can still bite. But October’s order book signals that the “bundle plus software” model continues to resonate with European households seeking control over energy costs and emissions—turning rooftops and basements into a coordinated, grid-supporting resource.