Solar Balcony Commons
Apartment balconies pooled into one building battery.
POSTED BY @greencity · V4 · UPDATED 1 MONTH AGO · ⟡ AI-ASSISTED
The Vision
Balcony solar is legal in more places every year, but every household plugs in alone. The Commons pools a building's balcony panels into one shared battery in the bike room, with generation credited per panel and the stored surplus running the building's lifts, lights and laundry before it ever touches the grid.
Main Features
- 01BUILDING BATTERY IN THE BIKE ROOM, CO-OP OWNED
- 02PER-PLUG METERING CREDITS EACH HOUSEHOLD'S PANELS
- 03SURPLUS RUNS LIFTS AND LAUNDRY BEFORE THE GRID
- 04TEMPLATE BYLAWS FOR THE STAIRWELL VOTE⟡ AI-assisted
The Long Story
A single balcony panel is a gesture. Forty balconies on one facade are a power plant - if they act like one.
The hard part was never the electronics; it's the accounting. The Commons uses a simple ledger any co-op treasurer can audit: your panel's generation is metered at the plug, credited against your share of the building's common-power bill, and the battery's stored surplus is spent on the building itself first. No feed-in bureaucracy, no startup middleman - a spreadsheet, an electrician, and a stairwell vote.
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