{"id":8214,"date":"2026-03-24T20:45:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/8214\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T20:45:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:45:36","slug":"totalenergies-and-holcim-inaugurate-floating-solar-power-plant-in-belgium-chemical-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/8214\/","title":{"rendered":"TotalEnergies and Holcim inaugurate floating solar-power plant in Belgium &#8211; Chemical Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tMarch 24, 2026\t\t\t\t | By Mary Bailey\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/totalenergies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/totalenergies.com\/\" aria-label=\"TotalEnergies - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-original->TotalEnergies<\/a> SE (Paris) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holcim.com\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"http:\/\/www.holcim.com\" data-uw-original- rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Holcim<\/a> (Zug, Switzerland) inaugurated in Belgium a floating solar power plant with a capacity of 31 MW, located in Obourg on a former chalk quarry site that has been rehabilitated into a lake.<\/p>\n<p>The solar power plant produces 30\u202fGWh per year of renewable electricity, which is self-consumed by Holcim\u2019s industrial facilities, making it the largest floating solar power plant in Europe dedicated to self-consumption. To maximize landscape integration, more than 700 meters of horizontal directional drilling were carried out to connect the panels to the electrical substation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted to inaugurate this floating solar power plant, which demonstrates TotalEnergies\u2019 teams\u2019 ability to innovate to meet the needs of our partner Holcim, whom we support along with other industrial customers in their efforts to decarbonize their operations,\u201d said Olivier Greiner, Managing Director Retail Power &amp; Gas Belgium at TotalEnergies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; March 24, 2026 | By Mary Bailey \u00a0TotalEnergies SE (Paris) and Holcim (Zug, Switzerland) inaugurated in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,5826,5827],"class_list":{"0":"post-8214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belgium","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-industrial-power","10":"tag-solar-power"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116286110027317738","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}