Mall of Engomi has entrenched its place on Cyprus’s sustainability map with a brand-new, 1.12 MW rooftop solar plant spanning 2,545 high-efficiency panels. The installation will generate about 1.24 GWh of clean electricity each year – enough to meet roughly half of the mall’s annual electricity demands and to keep 881 t CO₂ out of the atmosphere annually.
A bright spot in Atterbury Europe’s ESG roadmap
For Atterbury Europe, the Mall of Engomi array is the next logical step in a wider push to reduce carbon across its assets. The company already partially powers Mall of Cyprus with solar energy, has rolled out waste-to-compost systems at UŠĆE in Serbia and is working with its partners on other long-term decarbonisation initiatives across the portfolio. These efforts sit alongside a portfolio that increasingly pursues green-building benchmarks such as LEED EBOM and EDGE certifications.
Why rooftop and why now?
Scheduled roof maintenance created a perfect window to add photovoltaics, says the Atterbury Europe asset management team. The mall’s flat, unshaded roof offers uninterrupted sun exposure, ideal conditions for N-type TOPCon panels that suffer no light-induced degradation and carry a 30-year performance warranty. Huawei smart inverters provide round-the-clock monitoring and granular data enabling the operations team to maximise and monitor output in real-time.
Metric impact (infographic/table)
| System size | 1.12 MWp |
| Panels & roof footprint | 2 545 panels covering c. 5.000 m² |
| Share of mall demand met | c. 50 % |
| Annual energy yield | 1.24 GWh |
| Annual CO₂ avoided | c. 882 t |
| Everyday equivalent | 192 cars off the road or c. 40 000 trees planted |
| Jobs created during build | 25 local workers worked on the photovoltaic plant project |
Looking ahead: Batteries, EVs and a greener grid
The next phase is already in sight. Atterbury Europe is assessing a battery-energy-storage system to capture midday surplus and overcome Cyprus’s recent grid-throttling rules. An EV-charging hub is pencilled in for 2025, supporting both shoppers and the island-wide shift toward electric mobility. These moves dovetail with the EU’s updated Renewable Energy Directive, which raises the 2030 renewable energy target to at least 42.5 %.
From rooftop sunshine to battery storage and EV chargers, Mall of Engomi’s solar venture proves that regional retail centres can be powerful climate actors. For shoppers, the change is invisible; for the planet, the benefits are measurable and, thanks to a 30-year warranty, long-lasting. As the asset management team notes, “We’re not just generating clean electricity; we’re generating confidence in a carbon-neutral future for Cyprus and beyond.”
