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Re: France: MW offshore wind 6000 2020 to horizon




by moinsdewatt » 17/12/19, 01:50

Wind power: the port and Siemens Gamesa formalize the establishment of the Le Havre plant

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The large seaport of Le Havre and Siemens Gamesa have signed several agreements authorizing the occupation for 30 years of the 36-hectare area to house the future factory of blades, nacelles and generators of offshore wind turbines.

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The temporary occupancy agreement must be followed by the granting of the building permit, which should trigger the start of construction of the plant from mid-2020. (Photo: DR)

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Re: France: MW offshore wind 6000 2020 to horizon




by moinsdewatt » 10/01/20, 00:59

Work on the Saint-Nazaire wind farm substation has started

Posted on 09/01/2020 17:38 | Updated on 09/01/2020

The symbolic cutting of the first sheet of the 480 MW electrical substation in the Saint-Nazaire field took place on Thursday, January 9 at Chantiers de l'Atlantique.

"This marks the beginning of the physical operations of this field and of the entire EMR commercial sector in France," said Frédéric Grizaud, director of Atlantique offshore energy, the department dedicated to marine energies at the Saint-Nazaire shipyard.

Machining of the topside parts over 2 tonnes has already started. It will be the most powerful substation built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique, which has already delivered three for export.

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The partners - EDF Renouvelables and Enbridge on the one hand, and the Chantiers de l'Atlantique-GE Grid solutions-SDI consortium on the other - have affixed their signature to a steel plate cut out with plasma symbolizing the start of construction of the substation. S34 is his site name. (Photo: Véronique Couzinou)



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Re: France: MW offshore wind 6000 2020 to horizon




by Christophe » 10/01/20, 10:11

Uh what is a SUB station?

If not has the original promise of this subject been kept? In other words: we are in 2020 and how many MW offshore wind turbines are turning in France?
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Re: France: MW offshore wind 6000 2020 to horizon




by moinsdewatt » 11/01/20, 14:55

Christophe wrote:Uh what is a SUB station?


The electrical substation, a key element of an offshore wind field


Posted on 13/03/2017 by Vincent Groizeleau

Electrical substations are considered to be the critical element in marine wind farms. It is indeed these structures that transform the electricity produced by machines to transfer it to the earth. They also serve as relays for remote management of the park, which includes, depending on its size, its geographic positioning in relation to the coast and the network supplied, one or more substations. Increase the voltage to limit energy losses.

Providing the same function as a ground transformer station, the substations generally include two large electrical transformers. They are used to raise the voltage of the electricity generated by the turbines of the wind turbines in order to limit the losses in the cables feeding the terrestrial network. It should indeed be remembered that the substation is located within the park, that is to say several tens of kilometers from the coast. As an example, the distance to earth from the P34 substation, under construction in Saint-Nazaire with a view to equipping the Arkona field (2018 60 MW wind turbines) installed in the Baltic in 6 will be approximately of 35km, the export cable measuring a total of some 90 kilometers.



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Re: France: MW offshore wind 6000 2020 to horizon




by moinsdewatt » 05/06/20, 00:17

Siemens Gamesa starts construction of its offshore wind turbine plant in Le Havre

CLAIRE GARNIER Usine Nouvelle 02/06/2020

GOOD NEWS With two firm orders for the offshore wind farms of Saint Brieuc and Fécamp, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy is starting the construction of its offshore wind plant in Le Havre (Seine-Maritime). The plant will produce blades and nacelles under the same roof.

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Model of the Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy factory in Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) © Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy

New step for the world leader in offshore wind power which is anchored in Le Havre (Seine-Maritime). Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy will start "in the coming weeks" in Le Havre with the construction of its plant for manufacturing blades and assembling wind turbine nacelles at sea, said on June 2 Filippo Cimitan, CEO France of Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, during a press conference call.

"This is our first combined production site, which will produce both blades and nacelles" underlined the manager, without specifying the amount of the investment represented by the plant. The construction phase should be 16 to 18 months for commissioning announced for late 2021 / early 2022. The plant should employ 750 people, between employees of Siemens Gamesa France and its subcontractors.

The construction phase is considered tight due to the nature of the site itself - port site - and the major foundation campaign that will have to be carried out to establish an 80 m² building. "It's a tight but controlled schedule" added June Filippo Cimitan, recalling that his group has already built or launched the construction of four factories in five years, namely Hull in Great Britain (000), Cuxhaven in Germany (2016), Tangier in Morocco (2017)… and Le Havre.

Vinci Construction at work

A group of companies led by GTM Normandie-Center, a subsidiary of Vinci Construction, was selected by Siemens Gamesa to build this factory. Group that includes companies specializing in foundations. GTM anticipates that the site will employ between 350 and 400 people during peak periods. According to Christophe Quardel, regional director of GTM Normandie Center, the work has already started. "Our shovels and our machines are on site. We will have to anchor the building in depths of up to 35 meters," he said. For its part, the port of Le Havre has committed 123 million euros in the preparation of the land that will accommodate the factory and the development of a specific quay that can accommodate heavy loads.

These are the two firm orders received at the end of May which lead Siemens Gamesa to give the start of the construction of its Le Havre factory, the consortium order led by Iberdrola for the Saint-Brieuc (Côtes-d'Armor) wind farm and that of the consortium led by EDF for the Fécamp park (Seine-Maritime).

For Saint Brieuc, Siemens Gamesa must supply 62 7 MW wind turbines (a nominal power of 497 MW) with a 10-year maintenance contract; for Fécamp, the turbine manufacturer must supply 71 7 MW wind turbines (a nominal power of 497 MW) with a fifteen-year maintenance contract.

A "flexible" factory

In total, Siemens Gamesa was awarded the supply of five of the first six wind farms of the French State's first call for tenders in offshore wind power. In addition to those of Saint-Brieuc and Fécamp, Siemens must also build those of Courseulles (Calvados) by EDF and those of Dieppe / Le Tréport (Seine-Maritime) and Yeu / Noirmoutier (Vendée) by Engie. For the latter, "we have been selected as suppliers, but we have not yet received a firm order," said Filippo Cimitan. He specifies that while the Le Havre plant is intended to "serve the French domestic market as a priority, it is not exclusively dedicated to the French market".

It will not only produce wind turbines of 7 and 8 MW. "It's a flexible factory" underlines the manager, specifying that "the products do not stop evolving". Siemens Gamesa has also just launched a 14 MW model, the most powerful on the market, with blades 108 meters long. Asked by Usine Nouvelle on whether the Le Havre plant could build this model, Filippo Cimitan replied: "we can imagine that it produces the 14 MW turbine".


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Re: France: MW offshore wind 6000 2020 to horizon




by moinsdewatt » 22/06/20, 23:41

The Saint-Brieuc wind farm will generate 1 jobs in France

Published 19 / 06 / 2020

The contract for the supply of the foundations for the 62 wind turbines of the future park in the bay of Saint-Brieuc was signed on Thursday June 18 by the president of Iberdrola, Ignacio Galán.


It amounts to 350 million euros and concerns the site which will be installed on the polder of the port of Brest. The Spanish company Iberdrola confirms with this signature the launch of its investment of 2,4 billion euros in France.

This investment includes the creation of 350 jobs in France. On the one hand, 250 jobs in Brest for two years. The open-air site, organized horizontally, will employ, between 2021 and 2023, welders, flame cutters, handling operators, scaffolders, quality supervisors, etc. In addition, 100 other jobs will be needed at the maintenance site, which the company still wishes to install in Saint-Quay-Portrieux.

In parallel, 750 people will work on the manufacturing of wind turbines in the future Siemens Gamesa factory in Le Havre. This, also from 2021.



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Re: France: MW offshore wind 6000 2020 to horizon




by moinsdewatt » 18/08/20, 23:49

[In pictures] The connection of the first French offshore wind farm has started

ENGUERRAND ARMANET PUBLISHED ON 11/08/2020

On Sunday August 9, work began to connect the St Nazaire wind farm by RTE. In total, 33 kilometers of submarine cables and 27 kilometers of underground cables will be installed to connect the 80 wind turbines of the first offshore wind farm connected to the French grid.

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Kick-off for the connection site for the future offshore wind farm at Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique). On Sunday August 9, 700 meters from Courance beach, the cable ship deployed by RTE began installing the 225 volt cable which will travel 000 kilometers from an electrical substation located at sea to the coast. It will connect the future EDF Renouvelables wind farm off the coast of St-Nazaire. The 33 future 80-megawatt wind turbines will be installed on the Guérande Bank, and their commissioning is scheduled for 6.



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Re: France: MW offshore wind 6000 2020 to horizon




by moinsdewatt » 18/08/20, 23:50

On August 9, RTE began installing the 225 volt cable that will connect the 000 wind farm, located off Saint-Nazaire. Commissioning is scheduled for the course of 80.

The cabling started from the Courance beach and must reach an electrical substation located 700 meters from the coast. 27 kilometers of underground cables will then be unwound to be connected to the wind turbines.

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Re: France: MW offshore wind 6000 2020 to horizon




by moinsdewatt » 15/09/20, 23:12

General Electric promises hiring in France in offshore wind power

AFP published on Sep 15, 2020

General Electric will continue to hire in France at its three sites dedicated to offshore wind power, assured the president of GE Renewable Energy Jérôme Pécresse on Tuesday, who aims for a total of 1 jobs by the end of 400.

"The offshore wind industry for GE by the end of 2021 means 1 jobs in France," he told journalists at the group's plant in Montoir-de-Bretagne (Loire- Atlantique), which has just released the first turbine intended for the future Saint-Nazaire wind farm, the very first offshore park in France, supported by EDF Renouvelables and Enbridge. According to him, this factory which employs some 400 people, will still recruit a hundred. The engineering office in Nantes would bring together around 350 people and "the blade factory in Cherbourg is set to rise to 200".

These statements come at a time when the American giant has just announced the restructuring in Europe of two other divisions dedicated to renewable energies, in dam equipment and electricity networks. In France, 753 positions would be eliminated according to union sources, in Villeurbanne or even Belfort.

"Of course we are going through an economic crisis. Of course, order books are emptying and in certain activities it is massive", acknowledged Tuesday the Minister for Industry Agnès Pannier-Runacher, responding to the National Assembly to a question from deputy (PCF) Alain Bruneel. "But we will not accept an opportunistic social plan," she continued.

"We are going to conduct a demanding dialogue with GE so that the company takes up our devices and carries an ambitious project for the French industry," added Pannier-Runacher, indicating that the government had sent a letter to the CEO of the group. American, Larry Culp.

"The energy transition is a reality that is essential to all", justified his side Jérôme Pécresse. "I am convinced that once the Covid crisis is over, this energy transition will rather accelerate. This has led us to have good news in certain sectors, in particular offshore wind power, where we are supporting growth by recruiting and by investing. In other much more difficult businesses, it is true that we will have to adapt our mass of costs to the realities of the market ", he explained.

For him, "if we are here today to celebrate the hundreds of jobs created on French territory in offshore wind power, it is thanks to GE" which has bought Alstom's energy activities, including Montoir plant, because "Alstom did not have the financial means to continue this adventure". He indicated that internal mobility could be offered to employees affected by the job cuts.

After supplying the 80 6 MW nacelles for the Saint-Nazaire wind farm, scheduled to come into service in 2022, GE will focus on producing its giant 12 MW wind turbine. This has already been selected for park projects in Great Britain and the United States. Their sequence at this stage ensures work in Montoir until 2026-2027, said Mr. Pécresse.


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Re: France: MW offshore wind 6000 2020 to horizon




by moinsdewatt » 16/09/20, 13:59

GE inaugurates the first turbine at the Saint-Nazaire wind farm

Published 15 / 09 / 2020

While the offshore work to lay the foundations of the electrical substation, built at Chantiers de l'Atlantique, and the installation of submarine electrical cables by RTE are underway, the first 150 MW Haliade 6 France's first offshore wind farm was unveiled on Tuesday, September 15, at the GE plant in Saint-Nazaire.

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The delivery of this first turbine, notably in the presence of Jérôme Pécresse, President of GE Renewable energy, marks a symbolic milestone in the history of French offshore wind power. (Photo: Véronique Couzinou)

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