France has reduced the subsidies for the country’s first six planned offshore wind farms to about €150 a megawatt-hour from between €180 to €230/MWh, according to Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot.
The offshore wind farms impacted are EMF consortium’s 480MW Saint-Nazaire project and the 450MW Courseulles and 498MW Fécamp wind farms it is developing in cooperation with WPD, as well the Iberdrola-led Ailes Marines group 496MW Saint-Brieuc scheme. All four projects are scheduled to be up and running in 2023.
The Engie-led LEM consortium is developing the 496MW offshore Noirmoutier and Tréport wind farms, which are likely to come online in 2024.
The projects were successful in the Round 1 and 2 tenders in 2012 and 2014.
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France cuts offshore subsidies
By EBS