Ntombi Mhlongo
TotalEnergies has signed Corporate Power Purchase Agreements (CPPA) with Sasol South Africa and Air Liquide Large Industries South Africa for the supply of 260 MW capacity of renewable electricity over 20 years.
According to Club of Mozambique News, TotalEnergies will develop a 120 MW solar plant and a 140 MW wind farm in the Western Cape province to supply around 850 GWh of green electricity per year to the Sasol’s Secunda site, located 700 kilometres further North-East, where Air Liquide operates the biggest oxygen production site in the world.
The two projects, it was reported, will provide competitively and available renewable electricity to decarbonise Sasol and Air Liquide’s production.
The publication reported that these agreements demonstrate TotalEnergies’ positioning to contribute to the evolution of the energy mix in South Africa. The projects will have a direct impact on the local community through job creation.
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“Power generation in South Africa is still 80 per cent based on coal and power cuts occur daily. With these developments, we are proud to support Air Liquide and Sasol for their supply of green electricity. Meanwhile, we are pleased to contribute to South Africa’s energy transition which consists of increasing its share of renewables and gas as an alternative to coal,” said Vincent Stoquart, Senior Vice President, Renewables at TotalEnergies.
“There is a dynamic market for corporate PPAs in South Africa and we want TotalEnergies to take a strong leadership position.”
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The two projects are expected to be operational in 2025. The CPPAs with SASOL and Air Liquide were signed with a consortium of TotalEnergies Marketing South Africa1 (70 per cent), its partner Mulilo (17 per cent) and a to-be-announced B-BBEE partner (13 per cent).
It, however, highlighted that these projects are subject to regulatory approvals. As part of its ambition to get to net zero by 2050, TotalEnergies is building a portfolio of activities in electricity and renewables.
At the end of 2022, TotalEnergies’ gross renewable electricity generation installed capacity was 17 GW. TotalEnergies is a global multi-energy company that produces and markets energies: oil and biofuels, natural gas and green gases, renewables, and electricity.
Active in more than 130 countries, TotalEnergies puts sustainable development in all its dimensions at the heart of its projects and operations to contribute to the well-being of people.
