Ocean Winds has signed a capacity reserve agreement with the Navantia-Windar consortium to manufacture 62 jackets for turbines for its 496MW offshore wind farm of Dieppe le Tréport, off northern France.
The jackets are to be built in north-west Spain in Fene, A Coruña.
This project, which will soon materialise in a contract, is the largest commissioned to Windar-Navantia to date.
Dieppe Le Tréport is owned by Ocean Winds (Engie and EDPR), Sumitomo Corporation and Banque des Territoires.
Manufacturing work will begin at the Fene shipyard in the first quarter of 2023 with an approximate duration of two years and four million working hours.
The four-legged jackets will each weigh around 1000 tonnes.
The offshore electrical substation will be designed and built by Chantiers de l’Atlantique in Saint-Nazaire and yts foundation will be manufactured by Navantia Seanergies in Spain (Puerto Real).
Other tier one suppliers Ocean Wind has announced for Dieppe Le Tréport include Siemens Gamesa, which will produce the 8MW turbines and blades at its Le Havre factory in Seine-Maritime.
The internals of the towers will be assembled in the port of Brest, by the company SPIE Industrie under the supervision of Haizea Breizh.
A vessel reservation agreement has been signed with Jan De Nul Group for the transport and installation of the wind turbines in the area of the future park.
EMDT is in exclusive negotiation with DEME Group for the transport and installation of the jacket foundations and the substation and for a turnkey contract for the manufacture (subcontracted) and installation of the submarine cables connecting the wind turbines to the electrical substation.
This summer RTE Electricity Transmission Network started the preliminary work of land electrical connection.