Newcastle's Leading Residential & Commercial Solar Installers
Newcastle's Leading Residential & Commercial Solar Installers
SolShare enables apartment residents and owners to take advantage of installing rooftop solar PV on
buildings to take advantage of balanced distribution of renewable energy generation.
Solar for Apartments
Alume’s SolShare is an Australian-developed technology that enables apartment buildings to also take advantage of daily solar generation.
Using SolShare’s smart hardware, they offer apartment building residents to be powered by solar energy by distributing solar energy in a fair and balanced way so that every residence gets access to a single rooftop solar system.
These units can be paired with any solar system and is designed to be installed for apartments and
multi-residential dwellings, which otherwise would be missing out on solar
power.
As the apartment’s solar system is generating power, it is then fed to SolShare’s proprietary unit, which splits the solar and distributes it according to the demand of the building, maximising solar generation and minimising solar feed-in to the grid.
How does solar distribution work for each unit? In addition to their hardware, SolShare also offer dynamic distribution software algorithms that is responsible for sending the solar energy at the right time in a balanced way like equal distribution, or specific allocations to various apartment sizes and public spaces.
SolShare is primarily designed and used to supply multi-unit and apartment buildings by rooftop solar systems and grid-connected inverters.
If you're an apartment building owner or management representative, we'd love for you to reach out so we can find you the best system available.
For residents, we recommend contacting your management and encouraging them to contact us!
We offer free quoting and consultation on all our systems, so our customers have full-transparency and the right expectations.
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Clients can access how much electricity they’re using and how much has been allocated. Customers can also access solar feed-in exports and maximising solar production and providing insight into the best times to consume energy to maximise the value of your solar.
SolShare controls the division of alternating current (AC) from a single load like a solar inverter and distributes it to multiple loads. To track solar energy fairly between connected apartments, SolShare is placed downstream of this AC power source, and every 200 milliseconds it analyses the demand of each connected unit and determines delivery.
Supports Apartment Buildings from 5 to 60 units.
Reduction in Consumption from Grid Electricity.
Accessible Production & Consumption Monitoring Software.
Industry Leading Commissioning App for Expedited Installation Processes.
Various Purchasing Methods Available.
Increase Sustainability & Renewable Energy Reliance.
In addition to the most well-known solar subsidy, the small-scale renewable energy scheme, the NSW Government's Solar for Apartment Residents (SoAR) grant program is co-funded to support the installation of a shared rooftop solar PV system on eligible apartment buildings and other multi-unit dwellings in NSW.
SoAR covers up to 50% of eligible products and installation costs, with the remaining amount contributed by the owners corporation, and grants of up to $150,000 per project are available. Eligible costs include solar panels, inverters, mounting, solar sharing technology, labour and safety equipment (enabling works such as meter board or wiring upgrades are capped at 10% of the total project cost).
Status: Open. Applications opened 28 February 2025 and close 4 December 2026, 5:00 pm (or when funds are depleted), and funded projects must be completed by 30 April 2027. The program is administered by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.
By being connected to solar, you get to take advantage of renewable energy generation and offset your daily electricity consumption.
With the additional feature of solar power generation for your apartment, you can increase the value of your residence and the building.
For maximum benefits for all participating residents, fair energy distribution is key and can be achieved using SolShare.
With the Solar for Apartment Residents subsidy now available, it is a prime opportunity for apartment owners and residents.
To be eligible for the Solar for Apartment Residents (SoAR) grant, an application must be made by a NSW residential owners corporation responsible for the management of a strata scheme under the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015, or by a strata managing agent (or a nominated resident) authorised on the owners corporation's behalf. Individual residents can’t apply for the subsidy without owner or management approval.
For the building and application, the requirements are as follows:
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