Quinbrook Awarded Global Energy Transition Investor of the Year by Infrastructure Investor

London – 3 March 2025 – Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners (“Quinbrook”), a specialist global investment manager focused exclusively on the infrastructure needed for the energy transition, announced today that it has been awarded Energy Transition Investor of the Year: Global by the 2024 Infrastructure Investor Awards.

The 2024 year will go down as our biggest yet with the final close of our Net Zero Power Fund, the Valley of Fire Fund and multiple landmark projects built, financed and closed across the US, UK and Australia. Being recognised as the Global Energy Transition Investor of the Year is a tremendous honor and is especially meaningful for us in our 10th anniversary year. Quinbrook is one of the fastest growing specialist managers in the infrastructure asset class globally, which is a testament to our exceptionally talented team.

David Scaysbrook
Co-founder and Managing Partner of Quinbrook

Over 2024 Quinbrook announced a number of achievements including:

• $3 billion Net Zero Power Fund: Quinbrook secured $3 billion of new capital commitments for the Net Zero Power Fund (NZPF), the firm’s fifth successive energy transition focused fund raised to date. NZPF has invested in large scale solar + storage projects, synchronous condensers, biogas from food waste, sustainable hyperscale data center solutions and battery storage.
• $600m Solar + Storage ‘Continuation Fund’: Quinbrook closed the Valley of Fire Fund with $600 million in capital commitments from leading US and European institutional investors, including Blackstone Strategic Partners as lead investor. The fund acquired 51% of the Gemini Solar + Storage project, which is currently the largest co-located solar plus battery storage (BESS) project in the US. The project became fully operational in July 2024.
• ‘Supernode’ Storage Project Offtake Agreements: Quinbrook secured offtake agreements with Australia’s largest electricity retailer, Origin Energy, in April and July for the first two phases of its Supernode Storage Project in Queensland. The offtake agreements totaled 1500MWh of BESS capacity and an investment of over AUS 845M by Quinbrook. Quinbrook followed this up with closing the largest ever project financing of a battery storage project in Australia.
• Cleve Hill Offtake Agreement: Quinbrook announced two long-term offtake agreements with Tesco and Shell covering 100% of the solar power generation from its Cleve Hill Solar Park. Cleve Hill, a 373MW solar + 150MW battery storage project and the UK’s first Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project, is the largest to ever be constructed in the UK and is due to commence operations in early 2025.
• Large-Scale Battery Storage Project at Uskmouth, South Wales: Quinbrook announced a partnership with E.ON to jointly construct a 230MW/460MWh BESS in South Wales at Uskmouth. The project represents a major anchoring project in the planned re-development and regeneration of the Uskmouth site into a Sustainable Energy Park that will support innovative future industry in the UK.
• Queensland ‘Green Iron’ Project: Quinbrook announced a partnership to support the evaluation and testing of the largest known magnetite deposit in Queensland and plans to supply the renewable power needed for the mining and manufacturing of Queensland’s first ‘green iron’ project.

“For 10 years now, Quinbrook has financed, constructed and operated innovative renewables projects and advanced industry-leading technologies at scale. This award is the result of the deep institutional knowledge, passion and tireless dedication of the Quinbrook team and the ongoing support from our investors,” said Rory Quinlan, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Quinbrook. “We thank Infrastructure Investor for this award and congratulate all of our industry peers who were also recognized for their accomplishments in 2024.”

The annual Infrastructure Investor Awards celebrate excellence in the infrastructure space globally and regionally across the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. This award acknowledges leaders across an array of categories and is the culmination of voting by PEI Group’s internal panel of judges.

Disclaimer: Awarded March 2025. While Quinbrook is a paid subscriber to Infrastructure Investor, award nominees do not have to be subscribers or make any payments as a condition of eligibility. The award is not indicative of future performance. Quinbrook was the only firm designated as winner of “Energy Transition Investor of the Year: Global” for 2024.

About Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners

Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners (http://www.quinbrook.com) is a specialist investment manager focused exclusively on the infrastructure needed to drive the energy transition in the UK, US, and Australia. Quinbrook is led and managed by a senior team of power industry professionals who have collectively invested c. USD 6.9 billion of equity capital in 40 GW of energy infrastructure assets representing a total transaction value of USD 29.8 billion. Quinbrook has completed a diverse range of direct investments in both utility and distributed scale onshore wind and solar power, battery storage, reserve peaking capacity, biomass, fugitive methane recovery, hydro and flexible energy management solutions in the UK, US, and Australia. Quinbrook is currently developing and constructing some of the largest renewables and storage infrastructure projects in the UK, US, and Australia.

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