We regularly receive enquiries from apartment blocks and other strata title properties here at solar choice and the same questions tend to arise in our conversations with strata clients.
Solar panels for apartment blocks.
The residents share the savings equally through a reduced body corporate bill.
Apartment dwellers risk being left behind in the rooftop solar boom.
Apartment buildings often have large common roof areas that are well suited to solar power.
Our example system above needs 448 watt hours of electricity per day.
Londoners are installing solar panels on their apartment blocks sustainable energy from vast offshore wind farms to huge solar parks the planet is home to some huge renewable energy facilities.
It is becoming increasingly cost effective for apartment blocks office towers and strata managed buildings to use a common roof area for multiple solar power systems.
So if you had a 120 panel system and 10 units each unit could get 10 panels connected into their meter and the body corporate could have 20.
With portable solar panels for apartments physical size will be the limiting factor as rooftop panels are about 3 feet wide by 5 feet tall too big for a window sill.
Instead look at panels around 35 to 50 watts.
But some projects are showing how apartments can join the transition to a distributed renewable energy future.
Each apartment is connected to solar.