It depends.
Do you own a portion of your property’s roof space?
-If yes, then you can go solar on that roof space.
-If no, then you would need to obtain formal approval from the association or property owner to go solar.How many units are you looking to offset usage of with solar?
-If just one, that’s the simplest way to go. The only complication would be if the roof portion you own or are approved to put solar on is not solar appropriate.
If you want to go solar with more than one unit, there’s a few ways to do this:
* If you have multiple energy meters on the same account, where all units have different meters that are billed on the same account, you can go solar with no added complications.
* If you have a non-residential meter on your property, you can virtual net meter, where you have one larger solar system that feeds energy credits into multiple utility accounts. Oftentimes this is the meter account that tracks common area energy use. If you don’t have a non-residential meter, you can’t use virtual net metering to go solar.
* If you only have residential meters on your property, you would need to physically combine the meters. This will be an added cost to your solar project.