Renewables: Total Strengthens Its Position in the Spanish Solar Market & Covers All Its Power Electricity in Europe With Gree...
September 25 2020 - 2:30AM
Business Wire
Regulatory News:
Total (Paris:FP) (LSE:TTA) (NYSE:TOT) is strengthening its
presence in the Spanish electricity market through an agreement
with the Spanish developer Ignis to develop 3.3 gigawatts (GW) of
solar projects located close to Madrid and Andalusia. The first
projects in the Ignis portfolio are scheduled to start in 2022,
with the ambition of bringing them all into production by 2025.
Remuneration will be paid by Total to Ignis as the projects
develop.
This transaction follows the two agreements signed in February
2020 with Powertis and Solarbay Renewable Energy to develop nearly
2 GW of solar projects; and the acquisition last May from Energias
de Portugal of its portfolio of 2.5 million residential customers
and two gas-fired combined cycle power plants (850 MW).
- This operation brings to more than 5 GW its portfolio of
solar projects under development in Spain by 2025 and positions the
Group as a major player in the country's energy transition,
contributing to Spain's ambition to generate 70% of its electricity
from renewables by 2030 and then 100% by the middle of the
century.
- This solar power portfolio will enable the Group to cover
all the electricity consumption of its industrial sites in Europe
by 2025: to do this, the Group will purchase nearly 6 TWh per
year of green electricity generated by its Spanish solar sites
through a power purchase agreement covering more than 3 GW of solar
farms. This will be the largest corporate PPA in the world. Thanks
to its electricity trading capabilities, the Group will thus be
able to supply all its European sites with competitive green
electricity, in line with its objective of carbon neutrality. Scope
2 greenhouse gas emissions will thus be reduced by almost 2 million
tonnes per year.
"Total is becoming one of the main broad-energy players in the
country by intervening both in the production of renewable and
gas-based electricity and in the distribution of gas and
electricity. Our ambition, first and foremost, is to provide a
clean, affordable electricity offering to our residential customers
in Spain. Spain is a priority country for Total in Europe and we
fully intend to leverage the market’s growth opportunities that the
country offers to respond concretely to the challenges of the
energy transition towards carbon neutrality.," said Patrick
Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO of Total. "This decision to invest
massively in renewable electricity capacity to supply all our
industrial operations in Europe with green energy is concrete proof
of our decision to move towards decarbonising our European
operations in line with our new climate ambition. It also
demonstrates the value of integrating production, trading and sales
in the electricity chain.”
Total and Low-Carbon Electricity
As part of its ambition to become the responsible energy major,
Total is building a portfolio of low-carbon electricity operations,
with the objective of seeing them account for 40% of its sales mix
by 2050. Today, Total’s gross low-carbon power generation capacity
is close to 9 gigawatts, of which more than 5 gigawatts from
renewable energy sources. In pursuit of its ambition to increase
this figure fivefold by 2025, Total intends to continue developing
its activities to become one of the leading players in renewable
energies worldwide.
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About Total
Total is a broad energy company that produces and markets fuels,
natural gas and low-carbon electricity. Our 100,000 employees are
committed to better energy that is more affordable, more reliable,
cleaner and accessible to as many people as possible. Active in
more than 130 countries, our ambition is to become the responsible
energy major
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