TotalEnergies Switches On 263-MW Solar Cluster Near Seville Spain Today

• TotalEnergies has inaugurated a 263-MW, five-site solar complex in Guillena, Andalusia—its largest European project—supplying clean power to 150,000 Spanish homes.

TotalEnergies has flicked the switch on its most ambitious solar development in Europe: a 263-megawatt cluster of five photovoltaic parks sprawled across gently rolling farmland outside Guillena, Seville. Outfitted with about 400,000 bifacial panels, the complex is designed to generate 515 GWh of electricity a year, equivalent to the annual demand of more than 150,000 Spanish households.

The French multi-energy company secured “strategic interest” status from the regional government of Andalusia, which streamlined permitting and helped funnel local contractors into the build. At peak construction the project employed some 800 workers, many drawn from surrounding towns hit hard by the pandemic-era tourism slump.

TotalEnergies will market the lion’s share of output through long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) inked with Spanish corporates eager to hedge against volatile wholesale prices. Any surplus electricity will flow to the daily Iberian power auction, where cheap solar increasingly sets mid-day prices close to zero.

“Pairing utility-scale clean generation with firming capacity is the recipe Spain needs to decarbonise at pace,” said Olivier Jouny, Senior Vice-President for Renewables at TotalEnergies, during the ribbon-cutting ceremony. “With our 1,700 employees in Spain, we can match intermittent solar with flexible gas assets and deliver reliable, competitively priced power to our two-million-strong customer base.”

Spain remains one of Europe’s hottest solar markets thanks to abundant sunshine, strong grid connections and a government target of 74 GW of installed PV by 2030. Yet developers jockey for scarce grid capacity, making large, shovel-ready clusters like Guillena a prized asset. The project’s high-efficiency bifacial modules tilt on single-axis trackers, harvesting reflected light from the arid soil beneath to squeeze extra kilowatt-hours from each hectare.

The new complex nudges TotalEnergies’ global renewable fleet to about 28 GW of gross capacity. Management has pledged to reach 35 GW by December 2025, part of a broader strategy to make low-carbon electricity a pillar of its future cash flow alongside liquefied natural gas and biofuels.

With Andalusia’s summer sun now coursing through brand-new cables to Spain’s industrial heartland, the Guillena cluster offers a tangible snapshot of how legacy energy giants are reinventing themselves—one panel, tracker and PPA at a time.