Energy supplier E.ON UK today (June 17) announced that it has signed a strategic investment agreement with the Australian company Allume Energy to help expand the company to the UK.
E.on UK has invested £ 4 million in Allume Energy to enable Allume to expand the reach of his Solshare technology within the British market. With Solshare, solar energy from a single PV installation on the roof can be reasonably shared with several houses in the same building to give residents of flats access to solar -PV energy.
Residents get their energy when they use a predetermined allocation, allowing them to lower their energy bills. Many blocks of flats that have solar panels that are mounted currently only use this energy to provide electricity the common parts of the building, while residents still pay their entire electricity account. According to Allume, a shared Solar PV system on the roof can reduce residual energy bills by between 30% and 60%.
Chris Norbury, CEO of E.ON UK, called the investment a “important step to making the transition to clean energy more inclusive.” He added: “More than one fifth of the British houses – five million – are low and average turnout apartment buildings with space on the roof for solar panels, but so far no way to take advantage of immediately. We see a huge opportunity to help people lower their energy bills and reduce their carbon emissions, making Zonneigie
Cameron Knox, CEO of Allume, agreed, added: “People who live in flats experience the highest fuel poverty rates in the UK, but have traditionally been excluded from Zonne -Zon due to technical and ownership considerations.”
Allume has installed the Solshare system on more than 6000 houses worldwide, these systems have generated and shared a combined more than 14GWH of solar energy. Of the installations of Allume in the UK, more than half of them are on buildings managed by providers of social housing; The company states that the system is one of the most cost -efficient ways to adjust older buildings.
Social housing has become an increasing target of efforts to expand the rollout of the solar PV on the roof in the UK, as is apparent from a schedule that was launched earlier this year by the London Borough or Hackney. Since January 2025, 28 blocks in three Hackney Council Housing Estates have been equipped with a total of 4,000 PV panels for solar energy, so that 800 households can buy electricity at about 15% less than the average market rate of electricity in the area.
