TotalEnergies plans to build a 7.1 megawatt solar plant at its Mozambique LNG site in Cabo Delgado to help meet the facility’s energy needs, and has issued a call for engineering, procurement and construction bids for the project.
The solar plant, to be built at Afungi within the Area 1 LNG development, will use about 13,224 photovoltaic modules already procured by TotalEnergies and will cover roughly 6.5 hectares. TotalEnergies chief executive Patrick Pouyanné has previously said the company is weighing options to support local power generation, including gas-fired plants that could serve both Mozambique and neighbouring markets such as South Africa.
Construction at Afungi resumed in January after operations were suspended in 2021 following security incidents in Cabo Delgado, with TotalEnergies now targeting first LNG production from the initial train in the first half of 2029. Mozambique’s Rovuma Basin also hosts ExxonMobil’s planned 18-million-tonne-a-year LNG project and Eni’s Coral Sul floating LNG facility, which has been producing since 2022, with a second unit, Coral Norte, planned from 2028.
Source: angolanminingoilandgas.com