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  • Saint-Nazaire Offshore Wind Project Nears Construction Start

    19 September 2019
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    EDF Renouvelables and Enbridge have held a ceremony to mark the beginning of construction on the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project in France. Eolien Maritime France (EMF), a consortium of EDF Renouvelables and Enbridge, is developing the Saint-Nazaire project some 12km off the coast of Loire-Atlantique. The 480MW wind farm will feature 80 GE Haliade 150-6MW turbines manufactured in […]

  • DEME About to Start Saint-Nazaire OSS Foundation Works

    24 August 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    DEME Group is about to begin offshore substation foundation works at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project in France. According to the project’s Notice to Mariners, the activities related to the jacket foundation will begin today, 24 August. In June last year, a consortium of Atlantique Offshore Energy, GE Grid Solutions and Société de Dragage International […]

  • Saint-Nazaire OSS Jacket Set for Installation in August

    14 June 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    The jacket foundation for the offshore substation that will be part of the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm is scheduled to be installed at the project site off France in August. This is according to the latest update from the jacket’s builder Rosetti Marino, which has just sent the structure on a 22-day journey from its […]

  • GE Begins Turbine Production for French Offshore Wind Project

    10 October 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    GE Renewable Energy has begun the production of turbines for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project in France. GE, in charge of providing 80 Haliade 150-6MW turbines for the project, said that the routing of components and materials is currently underway at its Saint-Nazaire production site. The Haliade unit destined for the 480MW French wind farm was tested onshore […]

  • France’s First Offshore Substation Touches Down

    19 August 2021
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    DEME has installed the first offshore substation (OSS) in France at the Saint-Nazaire wind farm off the Guérande peninsula. Weighing 2,100 tons, the OSS topside was installed at the site on August 18. The substation’s jacket foundation was installed earlier this week. The electrical substation was constructed by a consortium including Atlantique Offshore Energy, the […]

  • DEME Installs Saint-Nazaire OSS Foundation

    23 April 2021
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    DEME Group’s jack-up vessel Sea Installer has installed the foundation for the offshore substation of the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project in France. The installation of the four subsea foundation piles was completed on 21 April, in record time despite having to be drilled into rock, according to DEME. The company added that its vessel Innovation […]

  • Ideol and AOL Present Market-Ready Floating Substation

    5 June 2019
    Grid Connection

    Ideol and Atlantique Offshore Energy (AOE) have unveiled the details of their market-ready universal floating offshore substation. Developed in cooperation with ABB, the floating offshore substation is designed for both bottom-fixed and floating offshore wind farms starting at depths of 40 metres. It is based on Ideol’s patented and shallow-draft Damping Pool® concept and on AOE’s […]

  • France’s First Offshore Substation Preps For Final Journey

    13 August 2021

    The jacket foundation and the topside of the Saint-Nazaire offshore substation are scheduled to depart from the Nantes Saint-Nazaire Port to the installation site in the coming several days. The jacket foundation will leave the Nantes Saint-Nazaire Port on Saturday, 14 August. The topside will follow soon and set off in the evening hours of […]

  • Euskalforging Rings for French Offshore Wind Project

    28 December 2022
    Contracts & Tenders

    Spain-based euskalforging has won a contract to produce rolled rings for the 496 MW Iles d’Yeu et de Noirmoutier wind farm offshore France. Under the contract, the company will manufacture rolled rings for 61 transition pieces that will be installed on the offshore wind project located 11.6 kilometres from the island of Yeu and 16.5 […]

  • Bladt, Steelwind to Deliver Hardware for Ørsted’s Offshore Wind Farms in Germany

    6 September 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Bladt Industries and Steelwind Nordenham have signed monopile foundation supply contracts with Ørsted for the Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farms in Germany. In addition to the contracts for the two projects, Ørsted has also secured call-off rights with the two manufacturers for further volume for other projects, if needed. “[By] […]

  • First Wind Turbine Foundation In at Saint-Nazaire OWF

    10 May 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    The first monopile foundation has been installed at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France, which is also the first installed turbine foundation for a commercial offshore wind farm in French waters. DEME is using its installation vessel Innovation to install 80 wind turbine foundations at the project site located between 12 and 20 kilometres […]

  • Saint-Nazaire OSS Jacket In Position

    16 August 2021
    Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The jacket foundation for the Saint-Nazaire offshore substation was installed off the coast of the Guérande peninsula in France over the weekend, DEME Group said. The 48-metre jacket will be held in place by four foundation piles installed in April 2021 by DEME Offshore using an in-house designed subsea template and tailor-made drilling equipment. The […]

  • DEME’s Trio Starts Saint-Nazaire OWF Work

    31 August 2020
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    DEME’s vessels Neptune, D’Artagnan, and Bonny River have been deployed on the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project, with some of the work now underway at the site located some 12 kilometres off the coast of the Guérande peninsula in France. The company’s cutter suction dredger D’Artagnan and trailing suction hopper dredger Bonny River are currently on […]

  • Saint-Nazaire OSS Jacket Ready to Set Sail to France

    4 June 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    The jacket foundation for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm’s offshore substation is ready to be transported from Italy to France, according to Rosetti Marino’s latest update posted on social media. The jacket, 50 metres tall and weighing 1,200 tonnes, has been loaded onto a barge in a vertical position and will travel to the Saint-Nazaire […]

  • Eiffage to Build Transition Pieces for 496 MW Wind Project Offshore France

    14 December 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Eiffage, through Eiffage Métal and its Belgian subsidiary Smulders, has been awarded a contract by Éoliennes en Mer Îles d’Yeu et de Noirmoutier (EMYN) to manufacture 62 transition pieces for the Iles D’Yeu et Noirmoutier wind farm offshore France. Each transition piece will be 29.5 metres high and have a diameter of six metres. The weight […]

  • Siemens Gamesa 14 MW Turbines for Polish Offshore Wind Farm

    27 June 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    RWE has selected Siemens Gamesa as the preferred supplier for F.E.W. Baltic II, a 350 MW offshore wind project in Poland on which the developer plans to use 25 SG 14-236 DD wind turbines. The agreement, subject to final investment decision, also includes a service contract and will contribute to Siemens Gamesa’s ongoing cooperation with […]

  • Scandinavians Develop New Scalable Floating Offshore Substation

    22 September 2022
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Denmark-based Semco Maritime and ISC Consulting Engineers and Technip Energies’ affiliate Inocean, based in Norway and Sweden, have presented an offshore wind substation concept that involves floating technology and scalability. The three companies have now entered into a partnership that will combine Semco Maritime and ISC’s offshore wind and bottom-fixed substation engineering and construction experience […]

  • DEME In Line For More Wind Farm Work Offshore France

    10 February 2023
    Contracts & Tenders

    DEME has been awarded two transport and installation contracts for the foundations and the offshore substation for the Iles D’Yeu et Noirmoutier wind farm offshore France. For DEME this is the second major offshore wind farm project in France following industry-first technology deployed at Saint-Nazaire. DEME Offshore will execute the pre-piling works for the offshore […]

  • French Companies Join Forces on Offshore Green Hydrogen

    15 June 2022
    Business & Finance

    Green hydrogen technology developer Lhyfe and the offshore engineering and shipbuilding company Chantiers de l’Atlantique have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the development of offshore hydrogen production platforms. The two companies will collaborate on offshore renewable hydrogen production projects with on-grid or off-grid wind farms and plan to develop green hydrogen production solutions with […]

  • Rosetti Marino Cuts First Steel for Fécamp OWF’s OSS Jacket

    23 February 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Rosetti Marino has cut the first steel for the jacket foundation that will support the offshore substation (OSS) at the Fécamp offshore wind farm in France. The Italian company is building the jacket at its Piomboni Yard in Ravenna for Chantiers de l’Atlantique, which won a contract for the offshore wind farm at the beginning […]

  • World’s First Offshore Green Hydrogen Plant to Go Online in France

    4 June 2021
    Business & Finance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    An offshore hydrogen production plant powered by electricity from a floating wind turbine is scheduled to be put into operation next year in France. The hydrogen production system will be installed at the SEM-REV demonstration site, off the coast of Le Croisic in France where it will be linked with the Floatgen wind turbine. According […]

  • DNV to Study Safety Risks on World’s First Offshore Renewable Hydrogen Facility

    15 July 2021
    R&D

    DNV will lead the process safety study to identify the main environmental, safety and operational risks for the world’s first offshore green hydrogen production facility, which will be put into operation next year in France. The risks DNV will be investigating include the floating barge, fuel cells and hydrogen production. A regulations and standards review […]

  • Atlantis Closes GBP 51 Mln MeyGen Funding

    19 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    Atlantis, owner of the world’s largest planned tidal stream energy project, MeyGen Limited (“MeyGen”), announced that all conditions were satisfied under the terms of the funding package announced on 21 August 2014 to enable the drawdown of funding for the project. Financing to fully fund Phase 1A of the MeyGen project has now been fully committed and […]

  • World’s First Offshore Green Hydrogen Production Platform Launched in France

    22 September 2022
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    French waters offshore Saint-Nazaire are buzzing with inaugural activity today (22 September) as the country’s first offshore wind farm was officially put into operation and, in a separate event, the world’s first offshore green hydrogen production platform was launched. As reported earlier today, French President Emmanuel Macron arrived at the Saint-Nazaire project site this morning […]

  • 496 MW French Offshore Wind Farm Enters Construction Stage

    6 April 2023
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The Eoliennes en Mer des îles d’Yeu et de Noirmoutier (EMYN) consortium, comprising Ocean Winds, Sumitomo Corporation, Banque des Territoires and Vendée Energie, has reached the final investment decision for the Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier offshore wind farm in France and thus moved the project into the construction stage. The first offshore operations will take […]

  • New Offshore Green Hydrogen Project Aims to Link Converted Jack-Up Rig to Wind Turbines

    21 September 2021
    R&D

    Offshore engineering company Aquaterra Energy, renewable hydrogen producer Lhyfe, and offshore drilling contractor Borr Drilling have entered into a partnership to develop an industrial scale offshore green hydrogen production concept which would use a converted jack-up rig and offshore wind turbines in the North Sea. The project, called Project Haldane, involves the deployment of an […]