State-owned energy company Pertamina may be Indonesia’s primary provider of air-polluting fossil fuels, but it seems the oil and gas supplier is trying to buy some good PR (and save on their energy bills) with its new supertall, “net zero” energy building in Kuningan, which developers recently began construction on.
What exactly do they mean by “net zero” energy? Well, the building’s architects, US firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, say the 530-meter tall, 99-story Pertamina Energy Tower will actually generate as much energy as it uses.
On their website, the architectural firm says is “the world’s first supertall tower for which energy is the primary design driver”:
The Pertamina Energy Tower and its support buildings will be located by the Rasuna Epicentrum complex on Jalan Rasuna Said and will be used by up to 20,000 employees. The building’s architects say it will be “a city within a city,” including a 2,000-seat auditorium for lectures and performances, a public mosque and a central energy plant that will serve as the energy production hub for the Tower and its surrounding buildings.
Construction on the Pertamina Energy Tower is scheduled to be completed in 2020.
