TotalEnergies has signed a new power purchase agreement with Google. The contract has a 21-year term, and will see the French oil and gas company supply the US technology giant with one Terawatt-hour (equivalent to 1 billion kilowatt-hours) of renewable power. This will help it to run its data centre operation based in Malaysia.
TotalEnergies will supply the power through the Citra Energies solar farm in the state of Kedah. The Malaysian solar plant is scheduled to begin construction early this year.
In 2023, TotalEnergies was jointly awarded the project with its partner in Malaysia, MK Land. The Malaysian Energy Commission allocated a 49 per cent interest to TotalEnergies and 51 per cent to its local partner via the Corporate Green Power Programme.
The recent agreement represents Google’s current strategy of facilitating a supply of clean energy to run the grid systems in areas where it operates. The contract builds on an existing power purchase agreement that TotalEnergies signed with Google to provide renewable energy to power its data centres in the US.
Head of Clean Energy and Power for the Asia Pacific region at Google, Giorgio Fortunato, commented that the agreement was an important part of the company’s plan to make investments that boost the economies where it operates. He added that new renewable power capacity would support the expansion of its systems that host its infrastructure.
The power purchase agreement will take effect at the project’s financial close, which is expected to occur in Q1 of 2026.
