We’ve created the SolShare, the world’s only hardware for connecting rooftop solar to flats.
We believe everyone should have the power to reduce their electricity bill and carbon footprint. With the SolShare, that’s possible.
For too long rooftop solar has been reserved for people that live in their own detached house, leaving those in apartment buildings missing out.
The SolShare is the world’s only hardware
that can connect multiple flats to a shared
rooftop solar system.
This proven technology enables a
single rooftop solar system to be optimally
shared by everyone in the building.
Achieve your sustainability goals while reducing the energy bills for each resident with a SolShare - The simple and affordable solution to apartment solar.
Proud winner of the Clean Energy Council
Innovation Award 2020
About the SolShare
Optimised Solar Delivery to the Flats
The SolShare monitors the energy demand of every flat in the building and automatically delivers the solar energy to where it’s going to be used.
By delivering the solar to the flats that are using energy at that specific moment in time, the solar energy is consumed within the building rather than being exported to the grid.
The optimised solar delivery results in the highest possible savings and biggest carbon reduction for every apartment in the building. The SolShare also makes sure everything is fair, by making sure that the same quantity of solar is delivered to every flat over the course of each month.
Simplicity in the Solution
The beauty of the SolShare is that it’s simple.
The SolShare is installed alongside traditional electricity metering infrastructure at the apartment building’s main switchboard. Apartment access is not required and residents can still choose whichever retailer they like for their grid energy. There’s no requirement for residents to sign up to anything or trade solar via blockchain or anything complicated like that.
Put simply, the residents won’t even notice that a SolShare system’s been installed – apart from when they see their significantly reduced electricity bill!
It’s this simplicity that has made the SolShare the go-to choice for Social Housing Providers and Property Developers.
Achieve your Sustainability Goals
For too long, the only solution to apartment solar was to connect it to the landlord supply. This often results in the solar being wasted, as the excess can’t be used by the flats and is simply exported to the grid.
The SolShare provides you with the opportunity to connect every flat in the building as well as the landlord supply to a shared rooftop solar system.
This is vital for achieving sustainability targets, including those in SAP 10 that require each flat to be connected directly to solar in order to gain the sustainability credits.
Each year, a typical SolShare will
Apartment Owners
Learn how you and your neighbouring
apartments can save money and the planet
with a SolShare solar system.
Social Housing
Learn how a SolShare solar system can be installed on your apartment buildings, saving
your residents money, while achieving your sustainability goals.
New Builds
Learn how the SolShare gains SAP 10 sustainability credits by enabling each flat to be connected to the rooftop solar system.
Case studies
Eveleigh, New South Wales
City West Housing is a leading Community Housing Provider in NSW. They connected rooftop solar to 226 apartments in three apartment complexes in their portfolio with Allume’s SolShare technology.
Bulimba, Queensland
Waterline Crescent apartments is an airy strata-titled apartment complex of 18 residences overlooking the Brisbane River just northeast of the Brisbane CBD. The body corporate decided to retrofit solar panels to improve the sustainability of the building, and chose Allume’s SolShare technology to connect solar to each apartment.
Botany, New South Wales
Botany Apartments is a community comprising 23 upmarket townhouses and 4 apartments that embraced smart energy technologies including shared solar.
Bayview, New South Wales
This apartment complex comprising multiple buildings overlooks beautiful Pittwater in Sydney’s north. In 2020 the apartment community decided to install rooftop solar to reduce electricity bills and dependence on the grid.
Tullamore Folia, Doncaster, Victoria
Committed to creating sustainable living environments for residents to enjoy, Mirvac have implemented forefront technology in Folia allowing the Prestige and Penthouse Apartment residents to share a single set of solar panels and distribute solar power in a manner that optimises the financial benefit to all connected residences.
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“One Step Off The Grid has followed Allume’s progress with its SolShare technology with great interest, as it works to break through the solar ceiling for those consumers traditionally “locked out” of the rooftop solar market, including renters and apartment dwellers.”
- One Step Off The Grid
“As the world’s first behind-the-meter solar sharing technology, SolShare is used to knocking it out of the ballpark, but becoming the first Power Division Control System (PDCS) to be UL certified is a game-changer.”
- PV magazine
“The SolShare is the most efficient system to maximise the use of energygenerated at any given time. It achieves this by supplying energy to where it is needed most, instead of sending it back to the grid.”
- Utility magazine
“Previously we have been limited in the use of solar in multi-occupant buildings such as apartments or offices due to limited roof space, but Allume’s technology allows everyone to use affordable solar power,” said Stuart Penklis, Mirvac's head of residential.
- Australian Financial Review
“People in the past have looked at the tech and tried to crack this and not really been able to,” Mr Lucas said. “We are particularly interested in Allume’s solution. It’s a segment of our customer base that hasn’t traditionally been able to access solar because of the way it’s metered and shared and this goes a long way to solving that physical element."
- The Australian
“Allume sees a huge opportunity for improvement in Australia’s low-income housing space, with state and territory government as well as not-for-profits providing homes for roughly 800,000 people around the country. Putting solar on all of these dwellings – detached, semi-detached and multi-unit – would not only level the playing field for people already at a disadvantage to home owners, but would add another 1,600MW to Australia’s rooftop solar capacity."
- Reneweconomy
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Sustainability
The SolShare is a powerful solution
for achieving your sustainability goals.
Significantly reducing aparmtent grid energy usage
via renewable solar energy.
News
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