Apartment residents gain access to shared solar and battery technology as innovations overcome longstanding barriers
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Anne Delaney
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Australia's rooftop solar and battery boom has largely excluded apartment residents, creating an energy divide. Allume Energy CEO Cameron Knox explains the technical, legal, and governance barriers preventing apartment dwellers from accessing clean energy, and discusses innovations like shared rooftop solar systems and battery-sharing technology that could expand access and affordability for multi-dwelling buildings.
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Allume Energy co-founder and CEO Cameron Knox explains the technical, legal and governance barriers that have kept apartment residents locked out of clean energy, and the innovations now helping to overcome them.
He discusses how multiple apartments can share electricity from a single rooftop solar system, and how a new generation of battery-sharing technology could dramatically expand access to afford
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