299 results found for 'Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm'

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  • France Revises Offshore Wind PPAs to Tackle Negative Price Periods

    3 June 2025
    Business & Finance, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The French government and three offshore wind farms have signed amendments to their power purchase agreements (PPAs), allowing them to halt production during periods of negative electricity prices. The three wind farms that signed PPAs are the 500 MW Fécamp, the 480 MW Saint-Nazaire, and the 496 MW Saint-Brieuc. According to the Ministry of Economics, […]

  • First Siemens Gamesa Turbine Up at Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier Offshore Wind Farm in France

    12 May 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The first of 61 Siemens Gamesa turbines has been installed at the 488 MW Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier offshore wind farm site in France. The first Siemens Gamesa 8 MW wind turbine was installed by Jan De Nul’s jack-up vessel Vole au Vent at the site located 11.7 kilometres from the island of Yeu and […]

  • More Turbine Components for Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier Project Arriving at French Port

    20 January 2025
    Equipment, Fixed-Bottom, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Wind Turbines

    The first turbine nacelles and masts for the 488 MW Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier offshore wind farm have arrived at the Nantes Saint-Nazaire Port in France. This follows the arrival of the first blades, manufactured in Le Havre by Siemens Gamesa and delivered at the end of last year. The Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier offshore wind […]

  • LD Tide Nets Second CTV Contract with Siemens Gamesa in France

    10 February 2025
    Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Operations & Maintenance, Supply Chain, Vessels

    Siemens Gamesa has selected LD Tide, a joint venture between Louis Dreyfus Armateurs and Tidal Transit, to supply a crew transfer vessel (CTV) for operations and maintenance work on the Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier offshore wind farm in France. The vessel, one of two CTVs currently being built by Strategic Marine, is scheduled to start […]

  • Accelerated Deployment Needed to Meet France’s 18 GW Offshore Wind Target by 2035, Study Says

    7 April 2025
    Industry, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy

    France will fail to meet its offshore wind installation target unless it streamlines permitting and creates a more favourable investment climate, according to new research from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). Despite carrying out numerous tenders since 2011, France has just 1.5 GW of operational offshore wind. The study finds that […]

  • Installation of Final Inter-Array Cables About to Start at Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier Project Site

    3 March 2025
    Cables, Grid Connection, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Louis Dreyfus TravOcean and Prysmian will soon resume the inter-array cable installation at the Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier offshore wind farm site in France. According to a recent social media post from Louis Dreyfus TravOcean, 5 strings and 37 cables are left to be installed and connected at the site of the 61-turbine offshore wind […]

  • Chantiers de l’Atlantique Subsidiary Wins French Offshore Substation Maintenance Job

    13 February 2025
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Operations & Maintenance, Supply Chain

    Chantiers de l’Atlantique subsidiary, Atlantique Offshore Energy, has been awarded contracts to carry out preventive maintenance of the two electrical substations for the 488 MW Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier and the 496 MW Dieppe Le Tréport offshore wind projects in France. The company has been chosen by Éoliennes en Mer Îles d’Yeu et de Noirmoutier (EMYN) […]

  • DEME Installs Dieppe Le Tréport Offshore Substation

    2 July 2025
    Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The offshore substation (OSS) of the 496 MW Dieppe Le Tréport offshore wind farm has been installed at its designated location 15 kilometres off the city of Le Tréport and 17 kilometres off the city of Dieppe in France. The substation, which was designed and built by Atlantique Offshore Energy, the Chantiers de l’Atlantique division […]

  • First Blades for 488 MW French Offshore Wind Farm Touch Down in Saint-Nazaire

    11 December 2024
    Equipment, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    The first blades for the Siemens Gamesa 8 MW turbines, which will be installed at the Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier offshore wind farm, have arrived at the port of Saint-Nazaire in France. The roll-on/roll-off (Ro-Ro) vessel Rotra Mare docked in Saint-Nazaire on 5 December, carrying the first turbine blades for the French offshore wind farm, being […]

  • Chantiers de l’Atlantique to Build Substation for 600 MW French Offshore Wind Farm

    5 December 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Supply Chain

    French transmission system operator (TSO) RTE Réseau Transport d’Electricité has signed a contract with Chantiers de l’Atlantique for the design, construction, assembly, and installation of a substation for the 600 MW Dunkirk offshore wind farm in France. RTE selected Chantiers de l’Atlantique to finalise the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contracts for the offshore […]

  • First Saint-Nazaire Blades Touch Down in France

    31 May 2021
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The first shipment of wind turbine blades for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm has arrived in France. United Wind Logistics’ module deck carrier Vestvind arrived at the Nantes Saint-Nazaire Port loaded with six sets (18 units) of wind turbine blades. The 480 MW Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm, also known as Parc du Banc de Guérande, […]

  • First GE Haliade 6 MW Nacelle Arrives at Saint-Nazaire OWF Pre-Assembly Site

    16 February 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    The first nacelle for a GE Haliade 6 MW wind turbine for the French Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm has arrived at the project’s pre-assembly site in the Port of Saint-Nazaire. The nacelles are being produced in GE Renewable Energy’s factory in Montoir-de-Bretagne, from where the next units will be sent off to the wind turbine pre-assembly […]

  • 40 Foundations In at Saint-Nazaire Offshore Wind Farm

    19 November 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Half of the total of 80 wind turbine foundations are now in place at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France.  The 80 foundations are being installed by DEME Offshore’s jack-up vessel Innovation, which put the first monopile in place in early May and had more than a quarter of the project’s foundations installed by the end of August. […]

  • Valemo to Support Saint-Nazaire Offshore Wind Farm Commissioning

    21 April 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    GE Renewable Energy and Endiprev have selected Valemo to commission the 80 GE Haliade 150-6 MW wind turbines for the Saint-Nazaire wind farm offshore France. This move followed after GE picked Endiprev to be the main engineering service supplier for the commissioning of the first commercial offshore wind farm in France, the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind […]

  • Saint-Nazaire Nacelles Start Arriving by Sea

    8 June 2021
    Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    The first turbine nacelles for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm have arrived by sea at the Nantes-Saint-Nazaire Port. The first GE Haliade 150-6MW nacelles made a short trip from GE Renewable Energy’s nacelle assembly plant in Montoir-de-​Bretagne to the Nantes-Saint-Nazaire Port earlier this week. Some of the nacelles for the project reached the wind turbine […]

  • Saint-Nazaire Bases Start Taking Shape

    5 October 2020
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    Construction has started on the operations and maintenance, and the construction base for the 480 MW Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France. The O&M base is located in the Port of La Turballe. The maintenance of the 80-turbine wind farm, scheduled to be operational by 2022, is expected to create 100 permanent jobs during the […]

  • Tekmar’s CPS to Protect Export Cables at Saint-Nazaire OWF

    2 February 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    Prysmian has selected Tekmar Energy’s Generation 10 Cable Protection System (CPS) for the export cables at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France. Tekmar will deliver the latest generation of its TekTube® CPS this year from its manufacturing facility in the North East of England. In 2020, the company won a CPS contract for the […]

  • GE Charters Acta Auriga for Wind Turbine Commissioning at Saint-Nazaire OWF

    22 September 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    GE Renewable Energy and Acta Marine have signed a charter contract for the Acta Auriga Service Operations Vessel (SOV), which will support the commissioning of 80 Haliade 6 MW turbines at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France. Operating out of the Port of Saint-Nazaire, the vessel will assist in the mechanical completion and commissioning […]

  • Tekmar Cracks French Offshore Wind Market with Saint-Nazaire Order

    12 March 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Tekmar Energy Limited has won a contract from French cable installation specialist Louis Dreyfus TravOcean to supply TekLink® cable protection systems (CPS) for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France. Saint-Nazaire is a 480MW offshore wind farm set for construction off France’s Atlantic Coast and owned by EDF Renewables and Enbridge. It will be the […]

  • French Seek UXO Investigators

    17 September 2019
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    France’s RTE Réseau de Transport d’Electricité has issued a tender for the investigation of potential unexploded ordnance (UXO) targets along the export cable route which will connect the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm to the grid. The purpose of the work is to investigate with remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and/or divers the potential UXO targets along […]

  • All Foundations Installed at Saint-Nazaire Offshore Wind Farm

    31 May 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    DEME Offshore, using its installation vessel Innovation has now installed all 80 foundations at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France, the industry’s first project to employ drilling to install XL monopiles. Eolien Maritime France (EMF), the consortium that owns the wind farm, awarded an EPCI contract for the 80 foundations to DEME Offshore and Eiffage […]

  • GE Renewable Energy Selects Global Wind Service for Maintenance Service Work

    20 April 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    GE Renewable Energy (GE) has selected Denmark-based Global Wind Service (GWS) for 50 per cent of the service and maintenance scope at the Saint-Nazaire wind farm offshore France. Under the agreement, GWS will perform planned maintenance, including brake-in and annual maintenance along with corrective maintenance tasks such as troubleshooting and unplanned service. The service and […]

  • MOJO Maritime on UXO Hunt Offshore France

    8 May 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    MOJO Maritime France SAS has won a contract to investigate potential unexploded ordnance (UXO) targets along the export cable route connecting the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm to the French grid. MOJO Maritime will, through the use of ROVs and/or divers, investigate and identify the nature of the potential UXO targets along the submarine cable route […]

  • LD Tide Inks New CTV Contract for Saint-Nazaire OWF

    12 January 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Louis Dreyfus Armateurs and Tidal Transit, through a joint venture named LD Tide, have signed a crew transfer vessel (CTV) contract with the developer of the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm, Eolien Maritime France. The CTV is the third such vessel to be operated by LD Tide on the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm, following an order […]

  • Saint-Nazaire Export Cable Installation Kicks Off

    11 August 2020
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Prysmian has started installing the export cables which will connect the 480 MW Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm to the French grid. The Italian cable manufacturer deployed its cable-laying vessel Cable Enterprise on the project. The cable pull-in operations started off the Courance beach on Sunday, 9 August, Réseau de Transport d’Électricité (RTE), the French transmission […]

  • All Inter-Array Cables In Place at Saint-Nazaire Offshore Wind Farm

    17 August 2022
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Louis Dreyfus TravOcean (LDTVO) has installed all 80 inter-array cables at the 480 MW Saint-Nazaire, France’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm. A consortium of LDTVO and Prysmian officially secured a contract for the supply and installation of inter-array cables at the 80-turbine Saint-Nazaire in 2018. Prysmian was responsible for cable manufacturing, while LDTVO was in […]