Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Renewables-focused investment manager Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners notched up a big win last week when its Gemini Solar Plant in Moapa, Nevada, about 50 miles northeast of downtown Las Vegas, began generating energy. Gemini, which was built in collaboration with Primergy Solar, is part of more than $15.5 billion worth of active and proposed projects across the U.S. from Quinbrook tracked by Industrial Info, about $11.3 billion of which is attributed to solar and battery energy-storage system (BESS) projects.

Earlier this year, Quinbrook and Primergy secured debt financing for a solar plant in the Texas Hill Country. The companies also signed a long-term power purchase agreement with Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) for the full 408 megawatts generated by the plant.

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