TotalEnergies has commenced commercial operations of Danish Fields and Cottonwood, two utility-scale solar farms with integrated battery storage located in southeast Texas.
These new projects, with a combined capacity of 1.2 GW, are part of the company’s portfolio of renewable assets totaling 4 GW in operation or under construction in Texas.
Danish Fields is TotalEnergies’ largest solar farm in the U.S., with a 720 MW capacity and 1.4 million ground-mounted photovoltaic panels. The project also comprises a 225 MWh battery storage system (BESS) supplied by Saft, the battery subsidiary of TotalEnergies.
Seventy percent of Danish’s solar capacity has been contracted through long-term Corporate Power Purchase Agreements, featuring an upside sharing mechanism indexed on merchant price.
The remaining 30% is set to support the decarbonization of TotalEnergies’ industrial plants in the U.S. Gulf Coast region. Along with Myrtle Solar which was commissioned last year and the under-construction Hill 1 solar farm, these three projects are expected to cover the electricity consumption of TotalEnergies’ industrial sites in Port Arthur and La Porte in Texas, and Carville in Louisiana.
Cottonwood has a capacity of 455 MW, and features 847,000 ground-mounted photovoltaic panels. The site is also expected to feature a 225 MWh of battery storage supplied by Saft, scheduled for commissioning next year. Cottonwood’s electricity production is contracted under long-term PPAs indexed to merchant prices through an upside-sharing mechanism with LyondellBasell and Saint-Gobain, to support their decarbonization efforts.
“The start-ups of Danish Fields and Cottonwood in the fast-growing ERCOT market showcase TotalEnergies’ ability to deliver competitive renewable electricity to support our clients’ decarbonization goals, as well as our own,” says Olivier Jouny, senior vice president, Renewables at TotalEnergies.
“Thanks to these projects, we are delighted to take another step in delivering our strategy across the entire value chain, from power generation to customer delivery, in order to achieve our profitability target of 12% ROACE in our Integrated Power business.”
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TotalEnergies Starts Commercial Operations of Texas Solar+Storage Projects
Looks like communism! is the new mantra of the GOP. It’s coming from the least intelligent of their leaders to the least intelligent of their followers.
Could work!
What Obama says at left is a reminder that life in on Earth is tough enough without the planet’s most nation being led by a criminal sociopath.
As previously mentioned, it’s good to see the rising popularity of astrophysicist Dr. Brian Cox.
In this video, he explains that life on Earth is about 4 billion years old, but for the first 3 billion, there was nothing more complicated than single celled organisms. He suggests that this may be the reason that civilizations are rare in the universe, i.e., that they’re only around for the blink of an eye in terms of geologic time.
To me, it also makes one wonder why it took God 3 billion years to create the first multicelled form of life.
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