Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has been awarded contracts for four new synchronous condenser projects in Phase 2 of National Grid’s Pathfinder Programme.
These additional awards follow the recent completion of Quinbrook’s first synchronous condenser project at Rassau in Wales, which is now fully constructed and operational. The Rassau project was the second newly built synchronous condenser project in the United Kingdom (under Pathfinder Phase 1) in support of National Grid’s efforts to improve grid stability in the wake of the increased growth of intermittent renewables.
National Grid’s Pathfinder Phase 2 offers fully inflation-indexed, long-term revenue contracts in return for essential grid support services from projects like Rassau. Under Pathfinder Phase 2, National Grid has awarded 10 new contracts worth a total of £323 million ($420 million) to projects that offer solutions to stability issues that arise due to rapid decarbonization of the U.K. power
