When PSW Energy commits to carrying a manufacturer’s product, the commitment starts well before a spec sheet lands on someone’s desk. It starts at the factory.
In March this year, our team travelled to China to visit four of our key manufacturing partners. The GoodWe leg of that trip covered two locations: the company’s global headquarters in Suzhou and a manufacturing facility roughly two hours away. What we saw at both reinforced why GoodWe’s ESA series sits in the PSW Energy product range.
TLDR
- GoodWe's 21-storey headquarters in Suzhou runs on the same BIPV, inverter, and battery technology the company sells. It cuts energy consumption by more than 50% and holds LEED Gold certification.
- The manufacturing facility operates two fully automated production lines, one for inverters and one for battery energy storage, with a combined annual capacity of 35 GW (inverters) and 2.1 GWh (batteries).
- PSW Energy visited both sites as part of a broader China supplier trip to verify product quality at the source, before those products reach West Australian properties.
Goodwe HQ
A building that runs on what it sells
GoodWe opened its Smart Energy Innovation Centre in Suzhou in 2024. It is a 21-storey, 16,000 m² tower, and the first thing you notice is the facade. Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) are embedded across the exterior walls, the rooftop, and the carports below. These are not decorative panels bolted to a wall. They are structural, load-bearing elements that generate electricity while functioning as the building envelope itself.
The building runs on GoodWe’s own hardware. Its inverters manage the solar generation. Its battery storage systems bank excess energy. A smart energy management platform ties it all together and optimises consumption across the day. Ground-source heat pumps, solar water heating, automated shading, and natural ventilation handle the thermal load.
The numbers tell the story. The headquarters achieves a 52% comprehensive energy savings rate compared to a conventional building of equivalent size. Roughly 35% of the energy consumed on-site comes from locally generated renewable sources. It holds LEED Gold certification under the USGBC’s v4 New Construction standard, verified independently by GBCI. It is also certified as an ultra-low energy building.
For us, the significance is not the certification plaque on the wall. It is the fact that a manufacturer is running a 21-storey commercial building on the same product lines it ships to Perth. The inverters managing energy flows in that tower are from the same engineering family as the GoodWe ESA units we install for customers in Western Australia. That is a meaningful proof point.
The ground floor houses a smart energy exhibition hall. Residential, commercial, and utility-scale configurations are displayed as working systems rather than static mockups. GoodWe’s philosophy, which it applies literally to its own headquarters, is that every building should function as its own power plant. Walking through the exhibition space made clear how seriously the company takes that idea.
Goodwe factory
Automated and split across two facilities
