The jacket foundation and the topside of the Saint-Nazaire offshore substation are scheduled to depart from the Nantes Saint-Nazaire Port to the installation site in the coming several days.<\/p>\n
The jacket foundation will leave the Nantes Saint-Nazaire Port on Saturday, 14 August.<\/p>\n
The topside will follow soon and set off in the evening hours of 17 August, the Nantes Saint-Nazaire Port said.<\/p>\n
The four pin piles that will support the jacket foundation were installed at the site by DEME Offshore in April.<\/p>\n
Saint-Nazaire, also known as Parc du Banc de Gurande, will comprise 80 GE Haliade 150-6MW turbines and the offshore substation installed between 12 and 20 kilometres off the coast of the Gurande peninsula.<\/p>\n
The 480 MW project is scheduled to be operational in the summer of 2022 when it will become the first commercial-scale wind farm installed in French waters.<\/p>\n
A consortium of Atlantique Offshore Energy, GE Grid Solutions and Socit de Dragage International (SDI), part of DEME Group,wonthe EPCI contractfor the Saint-Nazaire electrical offshore substation in June 2019.<\/p>\n
The wind farm is developed by Eolien Maritime France (EMF), a consortium of EDF Renouvelables, Enbridge, and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.<\/p>\n
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