Australia has built one of the world's most impressive residential solar landscapes, yet the fruits of that achievement are distributed along the lines of housing type rather than human need. For the 2.5 million Australians in apartments, the renewable transition has unfolded largely as a spectator sport — visible from the balcony, inaccessible from within. New technologies and state incentives are beginning to rewrite that story, though the barriers are as much about collective governance as they are about engineering.