TotalEnergies and Colas Renew Partnership to Decarbonize Construction Sites

Energy company TotalEnergies and French civil engineering firm Colas announced a renewed three-year partnership focused on advancing decarbonization of construction sites in France and internationally. The agreement covers deployment of multi-energy solutions including renewable biofuels, battery systems, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and solar power generation on Colas-owned land.

The three areas of collaboration under the renewed partnership include scaling renewable biofuels and battery systems to replace conventional diesel generators at construction sites, installing charging infrastructure for trucks, machinery, and electric construction equipment, and developing solar power facilities on Colas-owned land to improve energy self-sufficiency. TotalEnergies will contribute through its multi-energy product portfolio, which spans a range of low-carbon energy technologies and fuels. The partnership supports Colas's environmental roadmap targeting a 46.5% reduction in direct greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

Construction sites are significant emitters of Scope 1 emissions due to their reliance on diesel-powered generators and heavy machinery, an area where electrification and low-carbon fuel substitution are increasingly viable at scale. The TotalEnergies-Colas partnership provides an integrated approach to site decarbonization that leverages an energy company's product expertise alongside a major civil engineering operator's land and operational assets. TotalEnergies separately targets a 25% reduction in the carbon intensity of its products by 2030 compared with 2015.

The construction sector's decarbonization carries systemic significance because it creates demand signals for low-carbon equipment, fuels, and materials across multiple supply chains. Infrastructure projects in particular — roads, bridges, energy networks — are long-lived assets whose construction carbon footprint is increasingly subject to developer and government sustainability requirements. For emerging markets including India, where large-scale infrastructure investment is ongoing, the TotalEnergies-Colas model for integrated site decarbonization may offer a transferable framework as Indian construction companies begin facing ESG requirements from international project financiers.

Key figure — 46.5% direct GHG emissions reduction target by 2030 for Colas