Quinbrook acquires 350MW UK solar-storage project

• Project Fortress in Kent is anticipated to begin building and construction in the very first half of 2022

Quinbrook has gotten a consented 350MW solar-plus-battery project, located in Kent, UK.

The renewables infrastructure capitalist expects Project Fortress to commence construction in the very first half of 2022.

When functional, Fortress is anticipated to be the largest single website solar PV installation in the UK and also is greater than three times the size of the UK's next off largest consented solar PV project.

The enhancement of battery storage space to big scale solar generation at Fortress is created to give essential assistance to boost protection and reliability for the UK power grid.

Fortress, which is classed as an Across the country Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP), was given development consent by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy as well as Industrial Strategy in May 2020.

The power plant, when functional, is anticipated to generate adequate renewable power every year to satisfy the power demands of 100,000 UK homes.

Fortress includes a considerable landscape and also biodiversity monitoring strategy, developed in partnership with Natural England, Kent Wildlife Trust, RSPB, and the Environment Agency, that will certainly add more than 3.5 kilometres of indigenous hedge display planting throughout the website and also look for to supply a net gain of 65% in biodiversity.

Project Fortress follows closely behind Quinbrook's Gemini solar-plus-battery project in Nevada, in the US, which is incomplete.

Developed by Quinbrook portfolio firm Primergy Solar, Gemini is a $1.1 bn 690MW solar and also 380MW battery storage system.

It is believed to be the largest co-located solar PV and battery storage space project in United States history.

Rory Quinlan, co-founder as well as taking care of companion of Quinbrook, said: "Our team believe Project Fortress is a spots deal on many fronts and also stands for a new frontier in UK solar teamed with huge scale battery storage.

" We have been engaged in big scale solar and also storage space in the United States for several years as well as we can use our significant experience in project layout as well as tools choice to guarantee Fortress comes to be the brand-new criteria for renewables that sustain the UK grid as opposed to challenge it."