Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has announced the expansion of its large-scale Supernode battery storage project by signing stage three offtake contracts with Stanwell Corp.
The stage three expansion adds an additional 250-megawatt/four-hour battery energy storage system (BESS), bringing the total installed capacity to 750 megawatts and 2,540 gigawatt-hours. It is believed to be one of the largest to date in Australia’s National Electricity Market.
David Scaysbrook, co-founder and managing partner of Quinbrook, said Stanwell’s contract for Supernode stage three represents the complete “sell out” of Quinbrook’s current plans for large-scale battery storage at the highly strategic South Pine site. Construction for stages one and two has already begun in preparation for delivery of both of those initial stages under the firm’s previously announced offtake partnership with Origin Energy. Construction of stage three will now head into accelerated planning, tak
