Our Commitment to community
Pacific Green is dedicated to creating a cleaner environment for our communities both today and for future generations to come. We do this by delivering innovative energy storage solutions that enable Australia’s net-zero transition. We also partner with communities to deliver projects and initiatives that create meaningful and lasting social value for generations to come.
Community Benefit Fund
Pacific Green takes pride in becoming part of communities in which we operate. As we expand our business across Australia, we will be searching for investment and partnership opportunities with value aligned community groups and organisations. Our aim is to create social value and build stronger communities, right across Australia.
Through our Community Benefit Fund, we aim to enrich the quality of life for Australians both locally and internationally, across key focus areas.
Community Fund Benefits
Benefits to the Community
Pacific Green work closely with each community through our comprehensive community and stakeholder engagement programs. This ensures that we develop two-way, long-lasting relationships that foster a tailored approach to each region’s Community Benefit Fund. This in turn plays a vital role in supporting the development and success of the communities in which we operate, helping to create more meaningful, inclusive, and sustainable outcomes.
Relationships with our Neighbours
Our landholders and neighbours are crucial to our success. They hold site specific knowledge and intelligence and when this knowledge is shared we use it to inform the design of our projects. Through these conversations we learn about the local environment relevant historical land use an other useful information. These relationships last decades and we value them. Our landholders are always our first “hello” in the regions we operate and our sounding board for local advice.
Local Employment Benefits
Pacific Green is committed to sustainably contributing to local employment and training while ensuring high labour standards. During construction of our projects, employment opportunities naturally peak and at these times our approach is to maximise local direct employment and training opportunities. We prioritise hiring from within the local community to support regional economic development and growth. Our future initiatives will look to supporting local apprenticeships and education initiatives to support career progression in the renewable energy sector.
First Nations Collaboration
We recognise and value the importance of First Nations knowledge and participation in regional development. We engage with First Nations people and representatives to understand their priorities and tailor long-lasting economic, social, cultural, and environmental benefits through our program initiatives or our community benefit fund.
Our community values
Openness and transparency
We pride ourselves on being accessible to the community and encourage open dialogue.
Create social value
We aim to build long lasting social value across Australia and in regions in which we operate through our community benefits fund, job creation and economic development initiatives.
Foster First Nations Participation
We build relationships with First Nations people to inform project design and deliver meaningful capacity building, employment and social value to communities.
Collaborate with local communities
We work respectfully and in collaboration with communities, including First Nations people, to shape projects and hear firsthand about local landscape knowledge and requirements.
Community Safety Commitments
The safety of our employees and the communities in which we operate takes precedence in all we do. In addition to first-class technical engineering that’s designed to meet International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and Australian standards, all Pacific Green energy storage projects undergo rigorous safety and security testing to minimise safety risks.
