Iberdrola-owned Ailes Marines has announced that Van Oord jack-up Aeolus has resumed construction of the 496MW Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm off northern France.
Van Oord is responsible for installing the piles and foundations and will be working in the area without interruption in 2022 and 2023.
The first phase of construction took place between May and November last year.
Ailes Marines said that continuing from 2021, the works will firstly be located in the north-western part of the wind park.
From March 2022 to 2023, Van Oord will continue to install the anchor piles for the jackets – three piles per foundation.
It will also install the first foundations, the components of which are being produced by Navantia-Windar on the Brest polder.
Twenty-four foundations are already assembled and stored at the company’s site in Fene, Spain, and 21 foundations are currently being assembled.
The first foundations will arrive in the park area at the beginning of the second half of 2022.
During the spring, Saipem will transport and install the electrical substation on site.
Prysmian will also start the installation and burying of the 90km of three-core submarine cables between the turbines.
All of these work phases will mobilise more than 20 vessels on site at peak activity, Ailes Marines said.