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Solar Studio · Sydney

Salesforce Tower.
The next-generation workplace should generate.

Salesforce Tower already represents a new generation of premium, sustainable workplace. Sydsol can add the next visible layer: renewable electricity generated directly from the façade that tenants see and occupy every day.

The building as a power plant

Make the workplace itself part of the renewable-energy story.

Solar Studio maps where the building can generate, when that electricity arrives, and which surfaces create the strongest commercial opportunity.

Annual solar yieldSalesforce Tower · Sydney CBD
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Qualified solar surface
Outside commercial threshold
At a glance

What the building envelope could deliver

Qualified roof and façade surfaces are screened against the same energy and commercial assumptions used throughout this case study.

— Annual generation
— Annual savings
— Adjusted payback
— Annual CO₂ avoided
— Installed solar area
— Project LCOE
Energy & economics

Monthly electricity & LCOE

See how electricity generation and equivalent energy cost change through the year as solar resource, orientation and shading shift.

Monthly electricity & LCOE

Generation through the day

Not all solar is equal.

Rooftop solar is strongest around the midday solar peak — precisely when abundant solar can make electricity cheapest. Façades reshape the curve, adding generation earlier in the morning and later in the afternoon, when each kilowatt-hour can carry more commercial value.

Generate beyond the cheapest solar hours.

Solar generation profile · month by month

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Qualified surface mix

Where the electricity comes from

The building does not behave like a single solar surface. See which orientations contribute the most electricity, how much qualified area each one unlocks, and how quickly each surface could pay back.

—annual generation
The value of timing

More generation is useful. Better-timed generation is more valuable.

Rooftop solar concentrates output around the midday solar peak. Salesforce Tower’s vertical surfaces broaden that production window into the morning and afternoon — shifting part of generation away from the most solar-saturated hours.

In December, the northwest façade provides approximately — of selected generation from 15:00–20:00, when rooftop output is already declining.

Long-term value
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modelled savings over the assessed project life.

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modelled avoided emissions over the assessed project life.

Building performance context

From high-performance workplace to power-generating workplace.

Beyond energy yield, façade PV can support building-performance outcomes that matter to owners and tenants — from higher recognised renewable contribution to lower grid demand and a potential uplift in base-building performance.

Potential uplift
5.0 → 5.5

Indicative scenario showing potential improvement in base-building energy rating.

Electricity offset
24.9%

Modelled façade-PV contribution to annual building electricity demand.

Recognised renewable
3,643 MWh/yr

Indicative recognised renewable electricity in the building-performance context provided.

Operational carbon
20.8%

Indicative reduction in operational emissions under the façade-PV scenario.

Indicative Solar Studio screening output based on the provided NABERS context. This is not a certified NABERS result.

Who works here

Give leading tenants a sustainability asset they can see on their own building.

Salesforce Tower is already positioned around sustainability, wellbeing and technology. That makes the building’s tenant community commercially important: the organisations inside the tower can become internal champions for the next visible layer of building decarbonisation.

Anchor tenant

Salesforce

The namesake anchor tenant has made sustainability part of its corporate identity. A productive façade gives Salesforce a visible building-level energy asset on the tower carrying its name.

Potential audience: sustainability, real estate, workplace and corporate-impact teams.
Salesforce website ↗
Technology tenant

TikTok

TikTok adds another globally visible technology brand to the building — strengthening the case for a workplace where building technology itself becomes part of the tenant experience.

Potential audience: workplace, sustainability, corporate real estate and operations teams.
TikTok website ↗
Tenant + building influence

JLL

JLL combines a major workplace presence with deep building-performance expertise, making a productive façade directly relevant to both occupier and property-management priorities.

Potential audience: Energy & Sustainability Services, property management and workplace teams.
JLL website ↗
Institutional occupier

Wellington Management

A major global investment manager inside a premium sustainable workplace creates another route for the façade-solar story to reach institutional ESG and corporate-real-estate decision makers.

Potential audience: ESG, corporate real estate and operations teams.
Wellington website ↗
National organisation

Tourism Australia

Tourism Australia adds a high-profile national organisation to the tenant mix, broadening the case study beyond technology and finance into corporate sustainability and public-facing brand leadership.

Potential audience: corporate services, sustainability, workplace and communications teams.
Tourism Australia ↗
Flexible workplace

The Executive Centre

The Executive Centre occupies Levels 22 and 23, bringing another high-visibility workplace brand into the building and broadening the audience exposed to a building-scale sustainability upgrade.

Potential audience: workplace, ESG and member-experience teams.
The Executive Centre ↗

Occupier references are included for building context and do not imply endorsement, partnership or involvement in the Solar Studio analysis. TikTok is described from a reported 2022 lease commitment; other occupiers are identified from Sydney Place / Lendlease material.

Marketing impact

Make generation part of what tenants experience, measure and talk about.

A visible solar façade can support asset positioning, tenant engagement and building-performance goals at the same time. The key difference is tangible: the renewable-energy asset is on the building tenants work in every day.

Tenant names are included as public building context only. Sydsol is not implying endorsement, partnership or participation by any tenant or stakeholder named on this page.

The Solar Studio advantage

We model the building.
Then we follow the sun.

Solar Studio reveals the energy potential hidden across an entire building envelope — not just the roof. It combines advanced 3D solar simulation with the commercial metrics asset owners need to make a decision.

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Advanced 3D building model

We recreate the building and its urban surroundings so the analysis reflects the real geometry of the façade, roof and neighbouring skyline.

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Sunlight, tracked all year

Advanced ray-tracing follows sunlight through every hour of the day and every season of the year, revealing how solar access changes across the envelope.

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A true shading profile

Nearby towers, setbacks and the building itself are captured in a detailed shading profile, separating consistently productive surfaces from those that spend too much time in shadow.

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From solar potential to business case

We translate the solar opportunity into generation, energy savings, carbon reduction and payback — turning a complex façade into a clear investment picture.

Beyond rooftop solar

See where the building can generate, when that energy arrives, and which surfaces create the strongest commercial value.

Case study settings

The assumptions behind this view

These inputs define the Salesforce Tower case study and can be changed for a building-specific assessment.

Assumptions & inputsOpen to review the model settings

Indicative feasibility assessment. Results support early-stage decision making and should be followed by site, structural, electrical and façade-engineering review before project development.

Explore a Sydsol pilot for Salesforce Tower.

We can turn this model into a site-specific pilot scope — target surfaces, expected generation, integration pathway and indicative economics.

Discuss a façade pilot ↗