Iberdrola has begun transferring the first jackets for its offshore wind farm in Saint Brieuc, Brittany, France, from the Navantia Seanergies’ shipyard in north-west Spain.
The Navantia-Windar consortium is building the structures to support the wind turbines at Navantia’s shipyard in Fene, in A Coruna.
These are the first four jackets of the total of 62 to be built for the wind farm, which will be the Iberdrola’s first major offshore wind energy site in France.
The contract for the construction of the jackets was also the largest order to date for the Navantia and Windar partnership in offshore wind energy.
The foundations will be transported in a 122-metre-long barge belonging to Van Oord on a three-day journey to the port of Brest, depending on weather conditions.
The delivery of the first jackets demonstrates the successful completion of the contract signed two years ago, valued at €350m.
The order included the manufacture and assembly of the 62 structures at Navantia Windar’s facilities in Brest (France) and Fene and the piles that anchor the wind turbines to the seabed at Windar’s facilities in Avilés.