Philipp Schröder, Co-founder and CEO at 1KOMMA5°: Delivering the cheapest and cleanest electricity in the world

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.The Scaling Europe show is presented by Deel - check them out here:https://get.deel.com/ruynb7o4lfjkSponsors:Mishcon: https://www.mishcon.com/pop-ups/scaling-europeChargebee: https://www.chargebee.com/events/beelieve/london/2026SurrealDB: https://surrealdb.com/Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/uk?utm_source=other&utm_medium=partner_referral&utm_campaign=v01_emea_multi_ib_dg_prtmk_mofu_scalingeuropeTimestamps:0:00 - Introduction0:28 - 1KOMMA5°2:27 - Business model5:30 - Subscription model13:11 - Virtual power plant16:27 - One gigawatt of managed capacity21:11 - IPO plans24:38 - Energy and AI27:21 - Europe vs NASDAQ29:32 - International expansion33:25 - Building from Germany36:03 - Entrepreneurs and politics39:08 - Taking pushback41:24 - Energy abundance in Europe43:41 - What governments are missing47:38 - Lessons from Tesla48:54 - The future of energy companies