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Re: France: MW offshore wind 6000 2020 to horizon




by moinsdewatt » 01/02/21, 18:54

Saipem will provide the foundations for the Courseulles-sur-Mer wind farm

Posted on 01/02/2021 lemarin

The Italian group Saipem was chosen by the company Éoliennes offshore du Calvados (EODC), in charge of the offshore wind farm at Courseulles-sur-Mer, to supply the foundations to support the wind turbines.

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The “Saipem 3000” will be used for laying the foundations. (Photo: Saipem)

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Re: France: MW offshore wind 6000 2020 to horizon




by moinsdewatt » 23/02/21, 08:21

Wind power at sea: start of construction of the Normandy wind farm (Courseulles)

23 Feb 2021

The construction of the offshore wind farm off Calvados (Normandy) has now started, after the signing of all the financing agreements, announced Monday EDF Renouvelables, Enbridge and wpd, members of the consortium carrying the project. This site, made up of 64 wind turbines located more than 10 kilometers from the Normandy coast, is to be commissioned by 2024.

With a capacity of 448 megawatts (MW), it will produce the equivalent of the annual electricity consumption of 630.000 people, or more than 90% of the population of Calvados, say the three companies in a joint statement. France is lagging behind in the development of wind power at sea or offshore, due to technical and political difficulties and legal recourse. The first offshore wind farm, which is located near Saint-Nazaire in Loire-Atlantique, should start up next year.

The Calvados wind farm, off Courseulles-sur-Mer and the Normandy Landing beaches, is one of the first three French offshore sites to emerge off Fécamp (Seine-Maritime) and Saint-Nazaire. They were awarded by the French government in 2012 to EDF, which partnered with the Canadian energy supply company Enbridge. The two companies each hold 42,5% of the project. The pioneer of offshore wind power, wpd offshore, holds 15%.

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The total investment cost is estimated at 2 billion euros, the majority of which is financed by non-recourse debt, the statement said. The park benefits from a 20-year electricity purchase contract, granted by the State in June 2018. This project will mobilize more than 1000 local jobs, and the years of operation will generate lasting local jobs. in the port of Caen-Ouistreham, indicates the consortium.

The three companies have signed equipment supply contracts with Siemens Gamesa for the turbines, Saipem for their foundations, and with Chantiers de l'Atlantique, GE Grid Solutions and SDI for the offshore electrical substation. RTE, responsible for connection, will start work on land in March 2021, it is further indicated. In 2018, the French Council of State rejected the opponents of the project, namely five associations campaigning for the protection of the environment or for the inscription of the D-Day landing beaches as World Heritage by Unesco.

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Re: France: MW offshore wind 6000 2020 to horizon




by moinsdewatt » 15/04/21, 23:13

Work on the offshore wind farm in the bay of Saint-Brieuc will begin in May

AFP published on Apr. 15, 2021

The construction site of the wind farm in the bay of Saint-Brieuc will begin in May for commissioning "at the end of 2023", Minister of Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili announced on Thursday.

The works "will begin at the beginning of next month, for a commissioning of the wind turbines, at the end of 2023. This park will be a new electric heart for Brittany", declared Mrs. Pompili in an interview with the regional daily Ouest-France. "The future lies in wind power at sea, in which our neighbors - Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden ... - are already heavily involved."

The Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm is to be erected 16,3 kilometers off the coast of Brittany. With a total capacity of 496 MW, with 62 wind turbines, it is supposed to produce 1 GWh per year, the equivalent of the annual electricity consumption of 820 inhabitants, according to its promoter, Ailes Marines, a subsidiary of Spanish Iberdrola.

"The winner was chosen nine years ago. The time has come to step up," said Ms. Pompili.

While the project faces strong opposition from local fishermen, Minister of the Sea Annick Girardin underlines in the same interview that "many changes have been decided since 2011". "The area of ​​the park has been reduced (...) it has been moved six kilometers further north, to preserve the secondary deposit of Saint-Jacques de la Baie, and the techniques for installing wind turbines have been revised, from in order to reduce the impact of the work on the seabed ... Fishing activities can be maintained within the park, "says Ms. Girardin.

In addition, "more than ten million euros are planned to support all users of the sea. Habits will have to change, but we will ensure that the inconvenience is minimal and that the resource does not decrease. In the long term, everyone will be a winner, ”adds the Minister of the Sea.

The Council of State rejected in December a final request from five environmental associations opposed to the wind farm project.



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Re: France: MW offshore wind 6000 2020 to horizon




by moinsdewatt » 23/04/21, 23:07

First project completed for the Saint-Nazaire wind farm

Posted on 23 / 04 / 2021 lemarin

Deme announced on April 23 that it had completed the installation of the four piles for the jacket foundation of the 480 MW Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm electrical substation.
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Re: France: MW offshore wind 6000 2020 to horizon




by moinsdewatt » 26/04/21, 23:35

Offshore wind project off the Cotentin peninsula: six shortlisted candidates

AFP published on Apr. 26, 2021

The French government announced Monday that it had shortlisted six candidates for the future wind farm planned off the coast of Cotentin, with which a phase of "competitive dialogue" is now opening which will lead to the choice of a winner next year.

"In view of their technical and financial capacities, the government has pre-selected six candidates, who are admitted to participate in the competitive dialogue," said the Ministry of Ecological Transition in a statement.

They are the company Eoliennes en Mer Manche Normandie (EDF with the Canadians Enbridge and CPPIB), the Spanish Iberdrola, the joint venture Ocean Winds (Engie with the Portuguese EDPR), the Anglo-Dutch group Shell, the consortium Franco-German Total-RWE and finally the consortium formed by the Swedish Vattenfall, the German Wpd and the Banque des Territoires.

The competitive dialogue, which begins Monday, now aims "to reduce the costs of projects and secure their implementation, by giving candidates the opportunity to improve their offers during the procedure". The designation of the winner is scheduled for 2022 with a view to commissioning the park "envisaged" in 2028, the ministry said.

This park with a capacity of around 1 megawatts (MW) or 000 gigawatt (GW) will be the eighth in France and the fourth in Normandy. It was the subject of a public debate completed last year, which in particular highlighted the fears of fishermen.

"The wind conditions and the seabed off Normandy are very favorable to offshore wind power, which allows wind turbines to be installed that produce a lot of energy, under competitive economic conditions," said Monday Barbara Pompili, Minister for the Ecological Transition.

France has set a target for renewable electricity production capacity at sea of ​​2,4 gigawatts (GW) in 2023 and between 5,2 GW and 6,2 GW in 2028. But the country is far behind and no marine park is yet in operation. The first to start should be the one off Saint-Nazaire in 2022.


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Re: France: MW offshore wind 6000 2020 to horizon




by moinsdewatt » 22/05/21, 15:33

Belle-Ile: Government green light for a floating wind farm

AFP published on May 22, 2021

The government has given the green light to the project to set up a floating wind farm in the south of Brittany, west of Belle-île, according to a decision published in the Official Journal.

"The competitive tendering procedure launched in 2021 for the award of a floating offshore wind project with a power of about 250 megawatts, off the coast of southern Brittany is being continued", we can read in this decision. signed by Barbara Pompili, Minister for the Ecological Transition and published on Friday.

"A second competitive tendering procedure is intended to be launched later for a second floating offshore wind project with a maximum power of around 500 megawatts (...)".

A public debate on the subject allowed the distribution of the information pack to 110.000 households and the organization of twenty meetings, with nearly 1.800 participants, according to the decision signed by the Minister who considers that the public debate "has achieved its objective. information and mobilization of citizens' voice ".

According to the document, the selected area is located to the south of the island of Groix and to the west of Belle-île.

"The area of ​​this 130 km2 zone will be gradually reduced during the competitive tendering process, taking into account the results of the technical and environmental studies which will be carried out there by the State and RTE (Electricity transmission network) and the continuation of consultation with users of the sea, in particular fishing professionals (...) ", according to the same document.

This project meets "the dual objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and diversifying the French electricity mix to make it more resilient, thus contributing to the French energy transition and the achievement of carbon neutrality objectives", can - read in the decision.

The Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) has published on its website a call for applications from companies open until July 1.

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Re: France: MW offshore wind 6000 2020 to horizon




by moinsdewatt » 12/06/21, 15:24

Saint-Nazaire receives the first blades for its offshore wind farm

MER ET MARINE - VINCENT GROIZELEAU A on 01/06/2021

Impressive activity yesterday morning in the Nazaire basins, more particularly at the water intake quay, one of the sites adapted by the Grand Port Maritime (GMP) of Nantes Saint-Nazaire to support the development of industrial activities linked to marine energies renewable (EMR). Arrived during the weekend, the Vestvind (ex-Vir Varenya) freighter of United Wind Logistics began to unload the very first blades of the wind turbines that will constitute the future bank of Guérande bank, located off Saint-Nazaire by EDF and Enbridge. Scheduled to enter service next year, it will include 80 Haliade-150 machines of 6 MW each, whose turbines and nacelles are produced by the General Electric plant in Montoir-de-Bretagne, in the Loire estuary. Each will have three huge 75-meter-long blades made of fiberglass and balsa, for a unit weight of over 30 tonnes. The Vestvind conveyed the first 18 blades which, with their transport frame, represent individual packages of 39 tonnes. Each one is taken care of one after the other by the two new cranes of the Nazairien terminal, which work in tandem to deposit each blade on long trailers, thanks to which they join the logistics hub located a little further, east side of the Joubert lock-form.

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The Vestvind at the water intake wharf yesterday morning


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Re: France: MW offshore wind 6000 2020 to horizon




by moinsdewatt » 29/07/21, 00:48

The Saint-Nazaire wind farm substation ready to be installed

Posted on 27 / 07 / 2021 lemarin.fr

The installation of the upper part (topside) of the electrical substation and its jacket foundation on the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm is scheduled for around August 15.

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Re: France: MW offshore wind 6000 2020 to horizon




by moinsdewatt » 19/08/21, 22:58

Ah, it's good to see this after so many years (beginning of the thread 10 years ago): :D

[In pictures] The electrical substation, the heart of the future Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm, has set sail
The offshore site for the Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique) wind farm is progressing. The substation that will receive electricity from the park's 80 Haliade wind turbines set sail on August 17 to be installed. The park will see the light of day by the end of 2022.

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The electrical substation was transported to the offshore park off Saint-Nazaire on August 17, 2021.

It is a titanic project which is carried out off Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique). By the end of 2022, 80 giant wind turbines will emerge from the sea to supply nearly 20% of the department's electricity. Located between 12 and 20 kilometers from the coast, these wind turbines will all converge their electricity production on the transformers of a substation which will transmit the current to the continent. On Tuesday August 17, it was this substation that set sail aboard a non-standard vessel to be installed in the heart of the future offshore wind farm.

480 MW power substation

The transformers of the substation will collect electricity from the wind turbines to increase the voltage to 225 volts before it is injected into the onshore network via the RTE substation in Prinquiau. Built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique for EDF Renouvelable, the substation will be based on a “jacket”, a giant platform that was installed a few days earlier on August 000 on the barge Stralsund. On this occasion, a special vessel was assigned for the installation, the Pionnering Spirit. This mastodon of nearly 14 meters from the Swiss-Dutch shipowner Allseas is equipped with two giant cranes to carry out the installation.

The substation will generate 480 Megawatts of electricity, grabbing first place in the world from the Arkona electric substation with a power of 385 Megawatts. Built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique in 2018, Arkona is now located in the German Baltic Sea, where it supplies 400 homes.

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The jacket transported to the offshore park on August 14, 2021. Credit: Bruno Bouvry - Imagine Air.

80 General Electric Haliade wind turbines

General Electric's famous giant wind turbines, Haliade (150-6MW), will make up the Saint-Nazaire offshore park. Their production mobilizes 500 people from GE Renewable Energy in the nacelle assembly plant in Montoir-de-Bretagne (Loire-Atlantique) and 200 other people in the Nantes GE office for engineering, sourcing, and other services. The wind turbines will be installed in the spring of 2022 while the inter-turbine cables have already been buried.

The wind farm belongs to the Pays de la Loire region and will enter a 25-year operation and maintenance phase from its commissioning. The wind turbines will be maintained by EDF Renewables, Enbridge and GE Renewable Energy.


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Re: France: MW offshore wind 6000 2020 to horizon




by moinsdewatt » 26/09/21, 16:16

France's first offshore wind farm has its head out of the water

AFP • 26 / 09 / 2021

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We still only see the yellow foundations, but soon the wind turbines of the Saint-Nazaire offshore park, the very first in France to come into service, will begin to supply electricity. "It's deliverance!", Rejoices a figure in the sector, after ten years of waiting.
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