Remote energy specialist Pacific Energy has locked in its foreshadowed plans to build a new headquarters at Perth Airport – its second new facility within five years.
Remote energy specialist Pacific Energy has locked in its foreshadowed plans to build a new headquarters at Perth Airport – its second new facility within five years.
A new 17,100 square metre facility will include 5,200sqm of office space, an 11,900sqm workshop and a two-storey car park, built to facilitate the company’s ongoing growth.
It will be the third facility on Pacific’s books, as disclosed to Business News in September, and comes as the company touches 1-gigawatt of power under contract from 500 megawatts in 2019.
The facility will accommodate Pacific Energy’s ongoing growth, with in-house manufacturing of its standalone power systems and batteries which are currently built in Kewdale.
Pacific has operated at Perth Airport since 2021, but its expansion as demand has grown for standalone, off-grid power systems has led it to a need for more space.
New chief executive officer Mike Hall said the expansion would support ambitious growth goals.
“Since 2020, we’ve acquired five businesses, expanded our client offering, and more than tripled our workforce from 180 to over 600 people,” he said.
“We want this new facility to enable the next important stage of our growth story – one that sees us achieving our vision of becoming Australia’s leading provider of clean energy solutions.
“Our new headquarters will be home to the largest manufacturing facility of its type in Australia, giving us significantly more in-house capacity and capability to deliver the locally made products the market is demanding.”
The project will create 450 jobs during construction – starting early next year – and will support 400 employees once it’s delivered in late 2027.
A price for the new development has not been disclosed.
Perth Airport chief property officer Dan Sweet said the airport continued to focus on growing its expansive property portfolio.
“With more than 600 successfully managed leases already across the estate, we are focused on growing our $1.5 billion property portfolio in a strategic and sustainable way which will benefit our current and future partners, and economic growth in Western Australia,” he said.
Mr Sweet detailed his work and vision for the precinct in conversation with Business News in a story published last month.
Pacific Energy is owned by QIC and recently secured $1 billion worth of growth capital to fund its ambitious plans in the years ahead.
