Quinbrook closes funding for 250-MW battery in Queensland

Renewables infrastructure investor Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has reached financial closing and secured a power off-take deal for a 250-MW/2hr project set to create the largest battery energy storage system (BESS) site in Queensland, Australia.

The project will soon enter the construction phase, the Queensland government announced on Thursday.

The Supernode battery will be installed as part of an AUD-2.5-billion (USD 1.63bn/EUR 1.52bn) plan to create a large data storage complex powered by renewable energy near Brisbane. To be located at Brendale, a suburb in the City of Moreton Bay, the battery will support the data centre’s operations and provide dispatchable power to the grid to firm additional renewables capacity. As initially announced in the summer of 2022, the facility will be sited in proximity to the South Pine substation at Brendale.

The two-hour BESS will be run under an off-take agreement with domestic electricity retailer Origin Energy, which has recently committed to buying the unit’s entire capacity. Details about the contract were not available.

According to the government's statement, the construction of the BESS will be the first stage of the Supernode project, to be followed by the construction of the data storage facility.

(AUD 1.0 = USD 0.652/EUR 0.607)

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