Jan De Nul’s jack-up Vole au vent has left the Nantes-Saint Nazaire Port loaded with the first set of GE Haliade wind turbine components to be installed on the 480 MW Saint-Nazaire – France’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm.
Vole au vent is transporting the first four sets to the installation site between 12 and 20 kilometres off the coast of the Guérande peninsula.
Saint-Nazaire, also known as Parc éolien en mer du Banc de Guérande, will feature 80 GE Haliade 150-6 MW turbines loaded out from GE’s logistics hub at the Nantes Saint-Nazaire Port.
According to the latest construction update issued by the wind farm’s developer, 60 monopile foundations and 22 inter-array cables have so far been installed at the wind farm, with the construction teams now back at the wind farm to install the remaining foundations and inter-array cables.
Saint-Nazaire is owned and developed by Eolien Maritime France (EMF), a consortium of EDF Renouvelables, Enbridge, and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
The wind farm is scheduled to be commissioned in 2022.