At Rest, our focus is to grow our members’ super savings in a responsible way.
This means we look for high-quality investments that can deliver strong long-term returns for your retirement and can contribute to a lower carbon future – and we think Quinbrook fits the bill!
About Quinbrook
Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners is an investment manager with a specialist focus on renewable energy infrastructure and businesses. Quinbrook was established in 2015 by two Australians, who have over 20 years’ experience investing in renewables.
By investing in the development, construction, financing, operations and management of large-scale renewable energy infrastructure assets and businesses, Quinbrook believes it is helping to support net zero emissions targets across the UK, US and Australia.
Powering the transition to net zero
Quinbrook manages a portfolio of global assets. These include:
- Large-scale solar farms
- Data centres
- Electricity grid supporting battery storage
- Smart technology for electricity grids
As above, Quinbrook targets investments in the development and construction of new sites supplied by renewable power that can, for example, host large scale data centres, which typically use huge amounts of energy.
One example is the Supernode Data Centre site, north of Brisbane. The data centre is capable of hosting up to 180 megawatts of data centre information technology capacity, and Quinbrook is targeting to supply it with low-cost, around-the-clock renewable energy.
Why is Rest investing for a lower-carbon future?
Climate change could lead to serious economic and social problems for the planet and the people (like our Rest members) who live on it. At Rest, we believe in supporting actions for a more sustainable future and that responsible investment adds value to our investment decision-making process and improves our members’ retirement outcomes. This includes managing risks presented by climate change as well as the opportunities, and the transition to a more sustainable, lower-carbon global economy.
In our investment update on market megatrends, we talk about how the global economy is driven by advanced technology and the rise of data, connectivity and AI. Rapid advances in digitalisation will increase the need for data centres to store the enormous amount of information. Building the digital infrastructure that the economy demands in a more sustainable way (for example, by powering data centres with renewable energy, as is proposed for Supernode) is one way to contribute to this transition.
Quinbrook is well positioned in the transition to a lower-carbon global economy through its strategy of developing new renewable infrastructure supply, storage and grid stability projects.
