TotalEnergies and Veolia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to accelerate their existing partnership in areas related to the energy transition and circular economy.
The cooperative agreement will see both companies pool their respective competencies, with Veolia contributing expertise in water resource management and resource recovery from new waste streams, and TotalEnergies bringing its focus on the measurement and reduction of methane emissions and the production and supply of low-carbon energies.
Methane emissions and water stress
One key target of the partnership will be to reduce methane emissions from waste storage centres, with Veolia currently studying the deployment of TotalEnergies’ AUSEA, a drone-based technology used to measure methane emissions. Veolia has set a methane emission capture target of 80% by 2032 from its waste storage centres.
Elsewhere, efforts will also focus on reducing the industrial sector’s water footprint, with Veolia supporting TotalEnergies in the implementation of its ambition to reduce freshwater withdrawals by 20% by 2030 compared to 2021, at sites located in areas of water stress.
Other projects include TotalEnergies supporting Veolia in accelerating the deployment of low-carbon energy solutions at desalination plants – with the two partners having already constructed a major solar power plant at a seawater desalination facility in Oman – and the two firms coming together to pool their research and innovation capabilities to recover strategic resources from waste.
‘Ecological transformation’
“I am very pleased with the agreement signed today with TotalEnergies,” commented Estelle Brachlianoff, Veolia’s chief executive. “By combining our expertise, whether in sustainable water management, the circular economy or the reduction of methane emissions, we are putting our innovation capabilities at the service of the ecological transformation and the competitiveness of our industries.”
Elsewhere, Patrick Pouyanné, chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies, said that the two firms have the capability to “make a concrete contribution to the energy transition and the circular economy. We are convinced that cooperations like those we are developing with Veolia are very useful to make tangible progress and sustainably limit the environmental footprint of our companies.” Read more here.
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