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Navantia has completed the construction of the first jacket foundation for the French Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm at its shipyard in Fene, Spain. The completion of the first jacket follows the reception of the first batch of components manufactured at the French port of Brest. The components have been assembled to the main blocks manufactured […]
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Construction works on the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm in France will begin on 3 May, Iberdrola announced on 21 April. The works, starting with pile installation for the project’s jacket foundations, are planned to take place from May to October in five zones located in the northern part of the wind farm to avoid interfering […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection
Toulouse-based Omexom LS has won a contract to provide terrestrial ground connections work for the Saint Brieuc offshore wind farm. The 225kV onshore underground links will run from Caroual to La Doberie and have an approximate length of 16 kilometres. The export cables will be provided by Nexans. The value of the contract is around […]
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UXOcontrol and its consortium partner Louis Dreyfus TravOcean have secured a contract to carry out the UXO identification and debris removal campaign at the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind project in France. The campaign mobilized in July with Louis Dreyfus Armateur’s UXO survey and identification vessel Wind of Pride, which will conduct identification works for an estimated […]
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Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update
Offshore substation (OSS) topsides for the French Saint-Brieuc and Scottish Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farms have been moved out of Engie Solutions and HSM Offshore’s factories in Belgium and the Netherlands, respectively. Ailes Marines selected a joint venture between Engie Solutions and Iemants (a subsidiary of Smulders) to manufacture the offshore substation for the […]
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Authorities, Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update
Spanish energy company Iberdrola expects to receive a construction permit for the 500MW Saint-Brieuc offshore wind project by 30 June, 2017.
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Ailes Marines reported on 2 December that all the inter-array cables at the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm will be buried to minimise the interference for navigation and fishing activities. According to the developer, due to extreme site conditions a commitment to bury half of the cables was made in 2016. Now it has been determined […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Vessels, Wind Farm Update
French offshore wind developer Ailes Marines has awarded Specialist Marine Consultants (SMC) with a contract to provide vessel inspection services to support the construction of the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm. SMC will be providing up to three local Accredited Vessel Inspectors (AVIs) to the project. SMC’s French inspectors will be supported by the company’s back-office […]
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A consortium led by Atos has secured a contract to implement mission-critical communication solutions for the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind project in France. Atos will implement a full operational marine coordination center located in Pleudaniel, Brittany, to coordinate, monitor and document all traffic in and around the project construction area. The center will enable Ailes Marines teams to […]
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Local fishermen have taken their protests against the construction of the French Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm from land to the offshore project site on 7 May, when 70 fishing boats surrounded the Aeolus installation vessel in the Bay of Saint-Brieuc. To voice their opposition to the project, the fishermen have also fired distress flares while […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Van Oord has signed a preparatory works agreement with Iberdrola for the installation of 62 jacket foundations at the 496 MW Saint-Brieuc wind farm offshore France. Located approximately 16 kilometres off the coast of Brittany, the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm will comprise 62 Siemens Gamesa 8 MW wind turbines installed over an area covering 75 square […]
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Authorities, Wind Farm Update
The French Council of State has rejected appeals opposing the construction of the Bay of Saint-Brieuc offshore wind project being developed by Ailes Marines. Environmental conservation organization Gardez les caps and Nass & Wind, who competed in the tender for developing the wind farm, submitted the appeal citing irregularity in the selection procedure and seeking an annulment. Despite […]
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The first batch of foundation components for the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind project has arrived from France to Navantia’s Fene shipyard in Spain for final assembly. The vessel BBC Belem left the port of Brest, France, on 2 April carrying the components for two jacket foundations set to be installed at the French 496 MW project. […]
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Réseau de Transport d’Electricité (RTE) has expanded a recently issued tender for cable storage services to include the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind project in France. In October, RTE issued a tender for storage services for the 225kV submarine power cables, and optionally junctions and accessories, for the Saint-Nazaire, Courseulles-sur-Mer and Fécamp offshore wind projects. According to the […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
France’s Fouré Lagadec and the Spanish Haizea Wind are set to assemble the 62 wind turbine towers for the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind project in the port of Brest’s new polder. Construction of the new assembly plant is expected to start in early 2022 with commissioning scheduled for the end of the same year. The assembly […]
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Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update
Iberdrola has launched a green hybrid bond amounting to EUR 2 billion and will use the raised funds to finance and refinance the Saint-Brieuc and Baltic Eagle offshore wind farms in France and Germany, respectively. The company said that this was the largest green hybrid bond issue in its history and that, in just one month, […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Ailes Marines has awarded Prysmian Group with a contract to provide the inter-array cable systems for the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm in France. Prysmian will design, supply, install, and commission 90 kilometres of three core 66 kV HVAC XLPE-insulated inter-array cables. The value of the contract is around EUR 80 million. Cable cores will be […]
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Van Oord is set to start its offshore operations at the French Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm in 2021 with the installation of pin piles. The Dutch company will use its installation vessel Aeolus, which will in 2022 be assisted by a second vessel to install the jackets foundations. In April, Van Oord revealed it had […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update
Ailes Marines has selected Eiffage Métal and Engie Solutions to manufacture the offshore substation for the 496 MW wind farm in the Bay of Saint-Brieuc. Eiffage Métal will be in charge of the engineering and construction of the upper part of the substation, housing the transformers and electrical equipment. The company will also fabricate the […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update
Ailes Marines has selected GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions to provide the main electrical equipment for the Saint-Brieuc Bay offshore wind farm’s substation. GE’s Grid Solutions will be in charge of the design, manufacturing, installation, and commissioning of the high-voltage electrical equipment as well as the substation’s control and protection system. The company will design […]
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Bibby HydroMap is carrying out an UXO survey at the site of the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm in France, developed by the Iberdrola-led consortium Ailes Marines.
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Vessels, Wind Farm Update
Van Oord’s offshore installation vessel Aeolus is starting the installation of the first of 62 jacket foundations for the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm project. The 496 MW wind farm is located 16.3 kilometres off the coast of Brittany, France. Van Oord is using the port of Cherbourg as the pin pile marshalling port. The pin […]
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Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
The Navantia-Windar joint venture has received its first jacket foundation components for the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm manufactured in the Brest polder, France. Navantia-Windar established the manufacturing hub in the Brest polder in 2019, subcontracting multiple local companies for its first French project and the largest jacket foundation contract for the joint venture. According to […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Iberdrola’s Ailes Marines and Siemens Gamesa have signed a contract for the supply of 62 Siemens Gamesa 8 MW wind turbines for the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind project. The contract marks the final investment decision on the EUR 2.4 billion project, Ailes Marines said. The Saint-Brieuc wind turbines will be built in France, at Siemens Gamesa’s […]
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The three consortiums led by EDF, GDF Suez and Iberdrola will submit their tenders for offshore wind projects to the Commission for Energy Regulation on Wednesday, reports Les Echos. There is the total of five offshore wind areas. Dong Energy, Alstom, EDF will be bidding for all of them, except for the Tréport. The consortium […]
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Business & Finance, Ports & Logistics
General Council of Côtes-d’Armor (Conseil général des Côtes-d’Armor) has issued a call for bids for quay construction works for Departmental Port of Saint-Brieuc Le Légué. The Council states that this development is essential to position the Légué port as a service port in the context of the completion of the offshore wind farm in the […]
