Episode Details

1KOMMA5° is working to deliver the cheapest and cleanest electricity in the world, at a time when energy is becoming one of the biggest questions behind the AI boom.

Philipp Schröder, Co-founder and CEO at 1KOMMA5°, has grown the company from home electrification into one of Europe’s most important energy players. It is already managing one gigawatt of capacity, with a much larger ambition: making millions of homes part of the energy infrastructure Europe now needs.

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction

0:28 - 1KOMMA5°

2:27 - Business model

5:30 - Subscription model

13:11 - Virtual power plant

16:27 - One gigawatt of managed capacity

21:11 - IPO plans

24:38 - Energy and AI

27:21 - Europe vs NASDAQ

29:32 - International expansion

33:25 - Building from Germany

36:03 - Entrepreneurs and politics

39:08 - Taking pushback

41:24 - Energy abundance in Europe

43:41 - What governments are missing

47:38 - Lessons from Tesla

48:54 - The future of energy companies