For most homeowners, this volatility is something to absorb. With smart heat-pump control, it becomes something to use.
How peak shaving works
HeatAdapt automatically schedules your air-to-water or ground source heat pump around the price curve of the dynamic electricity market.
Cutting the peaks. During the most expensive periods of the day, HeatAdapt limits how much electricity your heat pump pulls from the grid. You avoid paying premium prices at the very moments when the grid is most strained and most reliant on fossil generation.
Filling the valleys. The heavy lifting, like preheating your home’s thermal mass and producing hot water for your tank, is shifted into the cheapest off-peak windows. Your house behaves like a large thermal battery, storing heat through low-price periods to coast through the high-price ones, all without any change to your indoor comfort.
The double benefit
Two things happen when you shift consumption away from peaks and into valleys.
Considerable savings. By optimising the schedule against dynamic electricity prices, grid tariffs and weather forecasts, heat-pump owners using HeatAdapt save an average of 14% to 24% per year on their heating bill. In particularly volatile months, the data shows monthly savings of up to 31%.
More renewables on the grid. The cheapest electricity periods are strongly correlated with high wind and solar output. By shifting your consumption into those windows, you reduce the need for fossil-fuel generation during peak demand and increase the share of renewable energy in your home’s electricity mix.
The same shift cuts your bill and helps the grid carry more clean power. That’s what we mean by smart heating.