Ledger. Australian venture funding, tracked

Company

Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners

Coverage

Stories naming Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

Funding announcement

Retailer that set out on a mission to disrupt legacy energy giants is being bought out by one

Origin Energy is buying Energy Locals, the membership-based power retailer founded to disrupt Australia's major gentailers. Its current owners, a consortium led by Palisade Impact, purchased it from Quinbrook about a year ago.

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Key hire

SunCable poaches solar and gas industry execs to lead baseload renewables project

SunCable appoints two industry executives — Cameron Garnsworthy as Australian managing director and Martin Hay as chief development officer — to drive the onshore component of its Northern Territory baseload solar and storage project.

2 deals

“New era:” SunDrive wins funds to scale up Australia made solar cell production

SunDrive secured an A$11 million ARENA grant to take its copper-metallised solar cell manufacturing from prototype to commercial scale in Sydney, with plans targeting up to 5GW of yearly capacity.

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