Belgium: TotalEnergies and Holcim have commissioned a 31MW floating solar power plant in Obourg, located on a former chalk quarry site rehabilitated into a lake. The plant is expected to generate approximately 30GWh/yr of electricity, which will be self-consumed by Holcim’s facilities. TotalEnergies said that the installation is the largest floating solar power plant in Europe dedicated to industrial self-consumption. The project included more than 700m of horizontal directional drilling to connect the floating panels to the electrical substation.
Olivier Greiner, managing director of retail power & gas Belgium at TotalEnergies, said “We are delighted to inaugurate this floating solar power plant, which demonstrates TotalEnergies’ teams’ ability to innovate to meet the needs of our partner Holcim, whom we support along with other industrial customers in their efforts to decarbonise their operations.”
