Quinbrook is planning an initial roll-out of 3 gigawatts of batteries, with 24 gigawatt-hours of storage, across various sites in Australia, targeting large commercial industrial customers who are seeking around-the-clock clean energy solutions. The roll-out is expected to cost $3.5 billion.
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The first battery would be built at Quinbrook’s Supernode data centre and battery storage site in Brisbane, it said, while subsequent projects are planned for Gladstone, Townsville and NSW. Rio Tinto, the second-largest Australian mining company, is looking for large-scale clean energy supplies to power its Boyne aluminium smelter and alumina facilities in Queensland’s Gladstone region.
The new battery projects could also enhance grid stability in the regions where the company chooses to build them. “Expanding Supernode with this eight-hour solution will … deliver critical support for the Queensland grid,” said Brian Restall, Quinbrook’s regional leader for Asia-Pacific.
Quinbrook’s global investment portfolio spans a range of renewable energy generation and storage technologies, including onshore wind, solar power, biomass and energy-management solutions. Quinbrook is partnering with Cannon-Brookes’s Grok Ventures to develop the Australian component of the $35 billion Sun Cable mega-project in the Northern Territory, which aims to build the world’s biggest solar and battery complex, and link it to Darwin and Singapore.
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