{"id":67860,"date":"2022-12-08T12:50:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T02:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=67860"},"modified":"2022-12-08T16:58:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T06:28:31","slug":"allume-energy-solshare-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/allume-energy-solshare-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Allume SolShare Makes It Easier For Stratas To Go Solar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Putting solar panels on a Strata property is often tricky. There can be technical challenges with the design and installation, not to mention the political challenges of dealing with multiple owners and a shared roof.<\/p>\r\n

Making solar power easy for people in multiple occupancy buildings is a tough nut to crack.\u00a0 Some good news is Allume Energy appears to have developed a powerful nutcracker in its SolShare system that distributes energy from one large solar system to multiple users in a building.<\/p>\r\n

One SolShare — which is a box full of electronics plus software — can supply solar energy to a maximum of 15 different metered consumers in a Strata title property. \u00a0The largest number of connections so far is in Eveleigh, NSW, where six SolShares are supplying a block of 88 apartments.<\/p>\r\n

A major benefit of Solshare is it will always try to send solar energy to its users instead of into the grid for a feed-in tariff<\/a>.\u00a0 Because a dozen apartments have a much steadier average daytime electricity consumption than a single household, this results in more solar self-consumption and lower electricity bills.<\/p>\r\n

The SolShare is designed nd manufactured in Australia by Allume Energy<\/a>. There are around 150 SolShares installed in Australia and more overseas.\u00a0 They are exported to the UK, USA, EU, and — for all I know — other letters as well.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

In this article, I’ll outline what a SolShare is, how it works, and how you get one.<\/p>\r\n

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This is what the SolShare looks like. Or rather, what its skin looks like since this is just the cover. Unless they’re all secretly buff under their shirts, there’s no way they could hold a 38 kg unit like that.\u00a0 So I guess that makes this group a SolShare cover band.<\/p><\/div>\r\n

A Two-Minute Explanation<\/h2>\r\n

About a year ago, Allume Energy gave SolarQuotes a two-minute rundown of SolShare.\u00a0 If you’d rather watch that than read, you can check it out below.\u00a0 Of course, you’re welcome to watch it in addition to reading my wonderful prose:<\/p>\r\n