Oil giant Totalenergies announced on Monday the start-up of its two largest solar power plants with batteries in the United States. The group indicates in a statement that it has launched Danish Fields and Cottonwood, “two gigantic solar power plants with battery storage located in southeast Texas.”
Danish Fields is Totalenergies’ largest solar power plant in the United States, “with a capacity of 720 megawatts peak (MWp) and 1.4 million photovoltaic panels” and “also has a 225 MWh battery storage system supplied by Saft, the battery subsidiary of Totalenergies”. ”, details the press release. Around 70% of Danish Fields’ solar capacity will power “long-term power sales contracts (CPPAs) signed with industrial players”, while the remaining 30% “will support the decarbonization of Totalenergies’ industrial sites in the region of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. .
A gross capacity of 24 GW of renewable electricity production worldwide
For its part, Cottonwood “has a capacity of 455 MWp and is made up of more than 847,000 photovoltaic panels” and “also integrates 225 MWh of battery storage provided by Saft, which is scheduled to come into operation in 2025.”
In total globally, TotalEnergies’ gross installed renewable electricity production capacity (wind, solar, batteries) amounts to 24 GW at the end of the second quarter of 2024, including 1.1 GW of batteries. Its goal is to reach 35 GW of installed electricity production capacity by 2025. By 2030, the group aims for a net electricity production of 100 TWh, of which around 70% will come from renewable energy and 30% from power plants. gas electric.
Source: BFM TV
