TotalEnergies has finalised the acquisition of French agrivoltaics player Ombrea.
Ombrea, founded in 2016, has built 10 sites and studied around 50 crop varieties, to develop unique expertise and solutions that optimise combined agricultural production and renewables generation.
By integrating Ombrea’s teams and expertise into its renewable activities, TotalEnergies intends to accelerate its development in agrivoltaics, both in France and abroad.
Under the Ombrea brand, TotalEnergies will offer the farming community solutions for combining solar power and agricultural production, including solutions for protecting against weather events, maintaining or even improving yields, and adapting to climate change.
This acquisition will also enable TotalEnergies to accelerate the development of its portfolio of 1.5GW of agrivoltaic projects that meet the criteria set out under the French Renewable Energy Acceleration Law adopted in March 2023.
TotalEnergies will welcome over forty experts from Ombrea, as well as its founders Christian Davico and Julie Davico-Pahin, who will be joined by TotalEnergies employees specialised in agrivoltaics at Ombrea’s Aix-en-Provence site, where the company’s agrivoltaics division will be based.
“We are proud to welcome the French agrivoltaics leader Ombrea to the company.
“This move will allow us to combine our expertise and know-how to accelerate the deployment of solutions that enable the agricultural sector to increase its income by producing energy, while sustaining its activities and reducing its carbon footprint,” said Vincent Stoquart, Senior Vice President, Renewables at TotalEnergies.