CIP launches Aussie renewables platform targeting 6 GW

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has set up a new subsidiary focused on the development of wind, solar and energy projects in Australia and seeking to deliver 6 GW over the next decade.

The Danish infrastructure investor announced the Newcastle-based platform’s launch in a LinkedIn post on Thursday, along with a new website with several projects included in the entity’s portfolio.

The platform, called Voyager Renewables, currently owns three early-stage development projects in Victoria and New South Wales and is developing “a network” of battery storage system projects across Australia to support the National Electricity Market. Details about the energy storage projects are due to be announced soon.

In New South Wales, Voyager is working on the Sunnyside project, which calls for the construction of a 450-MW wind farm in the state’s South-West Renewable Energy Zone. Its second project in the same state is Energy Oasis, which will combine wind, solar and batteries and will have a capacity of over 2 GW. In Victoria, Voyager is “investigating a large-scale wind and battery storage project” in the state’s western tablelands of roughly 1 GW.

CIP has been active in Australia since late 2017 when it invested in the Star of the South, the country’s most advanced offshore wind project. It now has a pipeline of over 40 GW of “active development opportunities,” it says.

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