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Quinbrook signs historic offtake agreements with Tesco and Shell for U.K.’s largest solar-plus-battery storage project
Transactions - OCTOBER 16, 2024

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Quinbrook signs historic offtake agreements with Tesco and Shell for U.K.’s largest solar-plus-battery storage project

by Kali Persall

Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has announced two long-term offtake agreements with Tesco and Shell, covering 100 percent of the power generated from its Cleve Hill Solar Park.

Cleve Hill, a 373-megawatt solar-plus-150-megawatt battery storage project, is the largest to be constructed in the United Kingdom and is due to commence operations in early 2025.

Quinbrook’s 15-year power-purchase agreement (PPA) with Tesco is the largest solar corporate PPA executed in the United Kingdom and will account for 65 percent of the expected solar generation from Cleve Hill once operational. Shell, a major power and renewables certificate trader and provider of route to market services, has signed a 10-year route-to-market agreement to manage 100 percent of the capacity that was secured by Quinbrook under a 15-year contract for difference (CfD) in July 2022, as part of the United Kingdom’s Allocation Round 4. This is equivalent to 35 percent of the expected solar generation fro

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