TotalEnergies and the mayor of Toulouse Jean-Luc Moudenc present their “total convergence of views”
At TotalEnergies, the word “petroleum” has become taboo. The company is now putting everything on green electricity and renewable energies, provided that the corresponding deposits are found.
” We are the leading producers of biogas in France and aim to become the leading producer of green hydrogen “says Isabelle Patrier, the company’s France director.
“For this, we will have to work on the capture and storage of CO2 but also on energy efficiency”, she adds.
A partnership agreement with the mayor (ex-LR) of Toulouse
This November 24 at the mayors’ fair, the hexagonal representative of TotalEnergies has just signed a partnership agreement with the mayor (ex-LR) of Toulouse. A statement of cooperation on “green growth and energy transition” and who undertake to look together at all the projects in this direction.
Because in Occitania, the company no longer has a refinery, but already operates 2 methanizers, 338 service stations and 454 charging points. Out of 780 employees, nearly 300 work in the production of renewable energies, spread over 11 sites: photovoltaic power plants, wind farms and offshore wind farms. In the region, TotalEnergies claims 200 megawatt hours installed and aims to reach 500 MWh by 2030. , the equivalent of half a nuclear reactor.
“We all have this desire to move quickly on renewable energies”, insists the director for France, Isabelle Patrier.
” We have a total convergence of views, ”replies Jean-Luc Moudenc, mayor (ex-LR) of Toulouse.
The Pink City claims to have “doubled” its renewable energy production
his election in 2014 in the Pink City, the city councilor declares having indeed given ” a boost to the development of renewable energies”, not having ” not expected neither the law of acceleration of renewable energies nor the drought”.
“I didn’t wait for the concept either”ecological planning“, but I can’t wait for it to land and for it to materialize”, hammered the city councilor of Toulouse.
In almost eight years, Jean-Luc Moudenc claims to have ” double ” the production of renewable energies, by requiring a second hydroelectric plant, by developing a heat network from the combustion of waste and the recovery of energy from the incineration plant, or even by boosting the deployment photovoltaic panels.
“Simplification is essential”, judges the France director of Total
Coincidentally, the CEO of TotalEnergies was heard, the day before at the National Assembly, by the commission of inquiry on the sovereignty and energy independence of France. In front of the deputies, Patrick Pouyanné denounced the ” administrative marathon » linked to the production of renewable energies. “It takes 14 authorizations to set up a solar plant in France”, a late boss of the company.
“We have more than 400 ENR production plants in France with a target of 4 gigawatts installed in 2025, but we are hampered by this administrative burden”, confirmed its director France, questioned by The gallery.
” The renewable energy production and authorizations do not follow the multiannual energy plan. There is a lot of work to make people understand that simplification is essential”, she continued.
Like an address to the Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, who has currently defended the law for the acceleration of renewable energy in the National Assembly.