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  • GDF SUEZ Reaches 1GW of Installed Wind Energy (France)

    5 January 2012

    Gérard Mestrallet, Chairman and CEO of GDF SUEZ, and Yves de Gaulle, Chairman and CEO of Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR) and member of the GDF SUEZ Executive Committee, inaugurated the CNR wind farm at Guerville, in the French Seine-Maritime department. With the commissioning of this 12 MW facility, GDF SUEZ passes the 1,000 MW […]

  • UK: PNA to Attend Multimodal 2012 as Major European Port

    24 April 2012

    Ports of Normandy Authority (PNA) will introduce itself as a major European port in the offshore-wind-farm and tidal-energy field of renewable marine energies at Multimodal 2012, in Birmingham (UK), from 1 to 3 May 2012. More particularly, Cherbourg is set to be used as the industry-and-assembly hub for the wind-farm consortium led by EDF and Alstom, […]

  • UPDATE ON FRANCE: The great potential of offshore wind in France

    16 March 2015

    France is ranked 2nd in Europe regarding the offshore wind potential, just behind the United Kingdom. And while no wind farms are installed to date this will change in the next few years to come. Offshore WIND asked France Energie Eolienne (FEE), the French wind energy association, to provide an update on the current status and […]

  • Alstom Launches Construction of Its Plants in Saint-Nazaire, France

    21 January 2013

    Alstom CEO, Patrick Kron, and Alstom Renewable Power President, Jérôme Pécresse, accompanied Prime Minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, in Saint-Nazaire, when he officially launched construction works of Alstom’s first two offshore wind turbine factories on Monday 21 January. The exclusive supplier to the consortium headed by EDF EN within the framework of France’s first call for tenders […]

  • Offshore wind in France – The state of the industry

    13 January 2012

    The last major economy in Europe that is not a member of the offshore wind club is due to knock on the clubhouse door this year. France will be joining the club with a huge 3GW enrolment fee. This month, to be precise, 11 January 2012, was the deadline for the tenders to be submitted […]

  • France: Alstom Inaugurates Largest Offshore Wind Turbine

    20 March 2012

    On 19 March, Alstom inaugurated the largest offshore wind turbine in the world, at Carnet in the Loire-Atlantique. The ceremony was attended by Eric Besson, Minister of Industry, Energy and the Digital Economy, and Patrick Kron, Chairman and CEO of Alstom. The 6 MW Haliade 150 wind turbine has been developed in response to a […]

  • France: Round 1

    6 August 2012

    In April 2012 the French Government under President Sarkozy announced the results of the first round for offshore wind energy licences. Companies and consortia had been invited to tender for the licences following the terms and conditions set out by the Commission of Energy Regulation (CRE). The tenders were for a total maximum power of […]

  • Saint-Brieuc Case: Nass & Wind Disputes Award Decision

    12 March 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    Nass & Wind is not giving up on challenging the French government regarding the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind site. Even though the company’s complaint on the authorisation of project modification was recently dismissed at the Administrative Court in Rennes, Nass & Wind is still proceeding with its main legal action against the government’s decision to award the site to another consortium. This case is currently being processed at the Court of Appeals in Nantes.

  • MMT Sweden on UXO Survey Duty Offshore France

    6 August 2021

    RTE Réseau de Transport d’Electricité has selected MMT SWEDEN AB to carry out the unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey along the export cable route of the Calvados offshore wind farm. The 448 MW Calvados offshore wind farm is being developed by Éolien Maritime France (EMF) and wpd. EMF is a joint venture between EDF Renewables, Enbridge, […]

  • F.lli Righini Srl

    20 October 2020

    About us F.lli Righini Srl supports its Clients during all phases of each project. Conceptual and Basic Design, 3D Modelling and Structural Analysis at Finite Elements (FEM) are standard practice conducted in order to reach the optimisation of the weight and dimension. Design, Fabrication and Testing, all carried out in-house, increase the overall operational reliability […]