Melbourne firm's device shares rooftop solar across apartment buildings
In short
- Allume Energy, based in Melbourne, took the 2026 Australian Good Design Award of the Year.
- The SolShare system splits rooftop solar power across an entire apartment building.
- Its creators describe the device as a "traffic controller for solar".
Why the Good News Desk likes this one
Many apartment dwellers cannot install solar panels because they do not control a roof. A device that distributes one building's rooftop power across all its flats opens clean energy to people who were shut out. The source gives no figures on installs or savings, so the scale of the change is not yet clear.
From The Optimist Daily
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM An Australian device that splits rooftop solar power across an entire apartment building just won the country’s top design honor. Melbourne-based Allume Energy took the 2026 Australian Good Design Award of the Year for its SolShare system, which its creators describe as a “traffic controller for solar.” The device […] The post How one small device is solving the apartment solar access problem first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News .
