1KOMMA5° introduces energy optimisation platform Heartbeat AI in Australia, accelerating battery payback for homeowners by up to $1,500 annually

Heartbeat AI optimises home solar and battery systems, automatically trading energy on the wholesale electricity market on behalf of households, making New Energy available for hundreds of thousands of Australian homeowners.

● The intelligent optimisation can accelerate battery payback for Australian households by up to $1,500 per year - and potentially more.

● Heartbeat AI arrives after optimising more than 60,000 energy systems, equaling 600 MW of flexibility capacity in Europe, launching in Australia as the country’s first renewable energy provider to integrate hardware, installation, software and wholesale market access for maximum payback and market-leading product warranties.

● Heartbeat AI is available now. Customers in Victoria can experience the platform and 1KOMMA5°’s product range at its newly opened Melbourne showroom.

Melbourne, Australia, 6 March 2026 – 1KOMMA5° Australia, a leading renewable energy company and part of the global 1KOMMA5° group, has today launched Heartbeat AI. The intelligent energy optimisation platform connects home solar and battery systems to the rhythm of the wind and the sun and turns households into active participants on the wholesale electricity market to always provide homeowners with the cheapest and cleanest energy possible.

With the launch of Heartbeat AI, 1KOMMA5° is offering Australia’s only fully integrated energy ecosystem. Unlike conventional virtual power plant (VPP) programs, where a retailer controls when a household battery charges and discharges, Heartbeat AI always makes the best optimisation decision for each individual household, enabling customers to retain visibility and control of the value their system generates.

Heartbeat AI can accelerate battery payback by up to $1,500 per year compared to a traditional retail energy setup, with the platform being provided at no additional cost for all Australian customers with a 1KOMMA5° solar and battery system.

The launch comes as battery adoption accelerates across Australia, with more than 250,000 households installing batteries in the past year, many supported by government rebate programs. Heartbeat AI is the next layer of value for those systems.

Luke Stronach, 1KOMMA5° Australia CEO, said: “With Heartbeat AI, we’re at a turning point for home energy in Australia. Hundreds of thousands of households have invested in solar and batteries, but most of those systems are still operating well below their potential. Heartbeat AI changes that. It turns a battery from a piece of hardware sitting in your garage into an active participant in the energy market, working around the clock to reduce your costs without you having to do a thing. This is what New Energy looks like.”

How Heartbeat AI works

Heartbeat AI is the optimisation layer that sits across the entire 1KOMMA5° home energy system. The platform has access to wholesale electricity prices, weather forecasts and grid demand in real time, then automatically decides when to store, use or sell household energy for the best return.

The system requires no behaviour change from the homeowner. Once installed, Heartbeat AI runs continuously in the background, making thousands of trading decisions per day.

What sets 1KOMMA5° apart is the integration. The company designs its own battery hardware, manages installation, and connects the system to the wholesale market through licensed retail partner Amber Electric.

1KOMMA5° controls the full chain, from hardware to software to market access, meaning the AI can be tuned specifically for each home’s energy profile and usage patterns. The AI also improves the cost-effectiveness and product lifetime of compatible systems.

“Most battery setups involve buying hardware from one company, software from another, and a market connection from a third. When it underperforms, nobody is accountable. We built Heartbeat AI to work with our hardware from day one. That’s what allows the optimisation to deliver real savings, not theoretical ones while offering industry leading warranty on our products,” said Stronach.

The technology behind the platform

Heartbeat AI’s optimisation depends on tight integration between hardware and software. At the point of installation, 1KOMMA5° maps the home’s energy topology, including solar generation capacity, consumption patterns, and metering configuration. This data feeds into the AI’s trading algorithm.

The connection between 1KOMMA5°’s hardware and the software layer has been optimised at the API level to improve response times to wholesale price signals. Across its European network, Heartbeat AI makes more than 4.8 million trading decisions per day, responding to price movements, weather data and grid demand in real time.

Proven at scale in Europe

1KOMMA5° is electrifying homes across six European markets, serving as the one-stop shop for intelligent, integrated energy solutions such as photovoltaics, energy storage systems, heat pumps, air conditioning and EV chargers. Heartbeat AI arrives in Australia after proving the model in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands, where it currently optimizes more than 60,000 connected assets and has delivered over €36.6 million in aggregated household value. The platform manages more than 600MW of distributed energy capacity, making it one of Europe’s largest residential virtual power plants.

Australian operations

1KOMMA5° has established operations in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, the ACT and South Australia, with local installation teams. The company has also opened a showroom in Abbotsford, Melbourne where customers can see the full integrated system in operation. Heartbeat AI is available now for customers. Further details about Heartbeat AI and 1KOMMA5°’s integrated product offerings can be found at www.1KOMMA5.com.au.

1KOMMA5° is the CleanTech start-up for CO2-neutral energy, heat and mobility. Founded in Hamburg, Germany, in 2021, the company operates around 80 locations in 7 markets worldwide, serving as the one-stop shop for intelligent, integrated energy solutions such as photovoltaics, electricity storage, heat pumps and EV charging stations. Its core technology is the energy management software Heartbeat AI; it currently optimizes more than 40,000 systems, creating Europe's largest virtual power plant that connects customers with the energy market and controls electricity generation and sales in time with the wind and sun. 1KOMMA5° has already installed over 300,000 decentralized, controllable energy systems, creating CO2 savings of 14 million tonnes. By 2030, the company aims to convert more than 1.5 million buildings to a climate-friendly energy supply, thus contributing to achieving the Paris climate targets. 1KOMMA5° is one of the fastest and most profitable growing start-ups in Europe.