TotalEnergies Marketing Tanzania has opened its first solarised service station in Dar-es-Salaam, allowing customers to experience solar-powered products and services.
The solar-powered station on Samora Avenue in Dar es Salaam’s city centre is part of TotalEnergies’ larger plan to solarize 5,000 service stations in 57 countries by installing solar panels at 1,000 service stations per year, in line with the company’s climate goal of achieving net zero carbon emissions.
In his opening remarks, Jean-Francois Schoepp, Managing Director of TotalEnergies Marketing Tanzania, described the company’s change from Total to TotalEnergies as well as the new company’s goals.
“It is with great honour and pride that we are here today to reveal our milestone and ambition as the first Oil Marketing Company in Tanzania to have solarized service stations which is in line with our climate ambition to have net zero carbon emission and a reflection of our transition from Total Tanzania to TotalEnergies Marketing Tanzania,” said Managing Director of TotalEnergies Marketing Tanzania Ltd, Jean-Francois Schoepp.
In his welcoming remarks, he described the company’s shift from Total to TotalEnergies and the new company’s ambition, stating that the Samora service station is the 24th TotalEnergies solarized station in Tanzania.
Eleven solar power stations are located in the coastline zone, six in the Southern Highlands, four in the Northern Highlands, and three in the Lake zone, according to him.
January Makamba, the Minister of Energy, praised TotalEnergies’ commitment and ambition to achieve carbon neutrality and energy transition.
TotalEnergy has set an ambitious goal of solarizing up to 68 service stations, as well as its industrial sites like its Dar es Salaam terminal and Lubricants Oil Blending Plant, by the end of 2022, he said, noting that with that goal, the company expects to produce close to 900 kW of electricity over the course of the year.