How this company was built.

Where Volt is going.

Two things are happening to the Australian grid at once. Generation is moving closer to where power is consumed, and storage is becoming the thing that decides whether that generation is useful. Volt is building for both.

On buildings, that means integrated generation becomes the default rather than the premium option. Pete Leeson's stated view is that new homes in twenty years will not have conventional solar panels on the roof, they will have integrated solar roofs.

On land, it means community scale assets sized to the town they serve, with storage alongside them so the energy is available in the evening rather than exported at noon.

The two directions share a platform. That is the point of the group structure.

Peter is a renewable energy project developer and building integrated PV specialist with more than a decade of experience across the Australian renewables industry. His expertise spans grid connection, planning and permitting, project management, civil works, PV design and electrical systems engineering, and he has worked across the full development lifecycle, from feasibility and government approvals through to financial close and construction at scale.

Before founding Volt, Peter developed the Robinvale (9.2MW), Cohuna (34.2MW) and Girgarre (100MW) solar farms, and secured 2025 Federal Government Capacity Investment Scheme underwriting for the Corop Solar Farm, a $700M pipeline. These projects were developed in his prior capacity at Leeson Group and are not Volt assets.

Peter founded Volt to close a gap he had seen firsthand: rooftop solar treated as an afterthought, bolted onto homes rather than built into them. He set out to engineer solar that becomes the roof itself, and has since led the company from a hardware business into a vertically integrated energy company spanning direct to consumer installation and sub 5MW project development through Volt Projects. Under his leadership, Volt won a 2024 Good Design Award Gold for Engineering and moved to a direct to consumer model that materially lifted revenue and gross profit per project.

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