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  • First Fécamp Gravity-Based Foundation Starts Taking Shape

    23 December 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    The construction of the first concrete gravity-based foundation for the Fécamp offshore wind farm has started at the Bougainville yard in the Grand Port Maritime of Le Havre, France. The consortium of Bouygues Construction, Saipem, and Boskalis will supply and install the wind farm’s 71 gravity-based foundations. Each weighing up to 5,000 tonnes, the foundations […]

  • First Gravity-Based Foundation Loaded and Ready for Fécamp Site

    1 July 2022
    Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    The first of 71 gravity-based foundations for the 500 MW Fécamp offshore wind farm has been placed on its transport barge at the Bougainville yard in the Grand Port Maritime of Le Havre, France, ahead of transport and installation at the project site off the coast of Normandy. The consortium of Boskalis, Saipem, and Bouygues Construction […]

  • 500 MW Fécamp Offshore Wind Farm Produces First Power

    18 July 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    The 500 MW Fécamp offshore wind farm in Normandy, France, has started producing the first electricity and feeding it into the grid after the first wind turbine was installed at the beginning of this month. Following the load-out of the first four wind turbines from the port of Cherbourg, DEME Offshore’s Innovation proceeded with the installation of […]

  • Top News of the Week May 5 – 11, 2014

    11 May 2014

    GDF Team Wins French Offshore Wind Tender Following a national public tender process, the French State has selected the group comprising GDF SUEZ, EDP Renewables, Neoen Marine and AREVA to install and operate offshore wind farms in the areas of Tréport (Upper Normandy, 500MW) and the Isles of Yeu and Noirmoutier (Pays de la Loire, […]

  • Sea Installer Gearing Up for Fécamp Offshore Construction

    4 March 2022
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    DEME’s DP2 offshore installation vessel Sea Installer is getting ready to carry out works for the Fécamp offshore wind farm in France, the offshore construction company said in a social media update on 4 March. Sea Installer installed four foundation piles for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm’s substation in April last year, when DEME said […]

  • Cable Works at Fécamp Offshore Wind Farm in Full Swing

    9 February 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    Italy-headquartered Prysmian Group has installed thirty inter-array cables at the Fécamp offshore wind farm in France. The cabling contracts for the 500 MW offshore wind farm were awarded to Prysmian, which is in charge of supplying and installing both the inter-array cables and the export cables for the wind farm. To carry out this operation, four ships are currently […]

  • Mojo Maritime to Check Fécamp OWF’s Export Cable Route for UXO

    25 May 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    The French transmission system operator Réseau de Transport d’Electricité (RTE) has awarded James Fisher Renewables with a contract for unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey along the export cable routes for the Fécamp offshore wind farm. Under the contract, the company’s subsidiary Mojo Maritime France (MMF) will identify and investigate potential UXO along the length of the […]

  • EIB Nods to Two French Offshore Wind Farms

    12 April 2019
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved the financing for the Saint-Nazaire and Fécamp offshore wind projects in France. EIB did not disclose the amount of the approved financing. The two projects are being developed by Eolien Maritime France (EMF), a joint venture of EDF EN and Enbridge. The 498MW Fécamp offshore wind farm will comprise […]

  • EIB Enters French Offshore Wind Market with EUR 450 Million Loan

    9 June 2020
    Business & Finance

    The European Investment Bank (EIB) has granted a EUR 450 million credit line for co-financing the construction of the Fécamp offshore wind project in France. According to EIB, this is the first such operation it is financing in France, reinforcing the objectives set by its shareholders to make it the EU climate bank. The financing will […]

  • CPP Earmarks Around EUR 350 Million for French OWFs

    12 May 2020
    Business & Finance

    Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) will pay approximately EUR 80 million for its recently bought stake in Éolien Maritime France (EMF) from Enbridge. The Canadian company, through its fully owned subsidiary CPP Investment Board Europe, has acquired 49 per cent of Enbridge’s 50 per cent stake in EMF, the developer of three offshore […]

  • Fécamp Offshore Wind Farm Enters Construction Stage

    2 June 2020
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The consortium comprising EDF Renewables, Enbridge, and wpd has launched the construction of the Fécamp offshore wind farm in France, following the finalisation of agreements with its financial partners. French transmission system operator RTE will start onshore construction works this month. RTE is responsible for connecting the wind farm from the substation to the coast, […]

  • Akrocean Deploys WINDSEA FLiDAR at Fécamp Met Mast

    20 April 2018
    R&D, Technology

    French floating LiDAR developer Akrocean has deployed a WINDSEA buoy at the Fécamp met mast as part of the type 2 validation process of the OWA Carbon Trust Roadmap.

  • Palfinger Cracks French Offshore Wind Market

    21 January 2021
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Palfinger has won a contract to provide 73 boom cranes for the Fécamp offshore wind farm in France. The order marks Palfinger’s entry into the French offshore wind market. The 71 PF14000-4.5 LDB fixed boom cranes will lift materials and tools from the supply vessel onto the laydown area of the transition deck during the […]

  • Fécamp Wind Turbine Components Gathering at Cherbourg Assembly Site

    28 February 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    The first components for wind turbines which will spin at the Fécamp offshore wind farm are being transported to the storage and assembly site at the Port of Cherbourg, France, ahead of the installation at the offshore site that is scheduled to start in the late Spring.  The 497 MW Fécamp offshore wind farm will […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Awards Fécamp Pre-Assembly Contract to GWS

    14 April 2023
    Contracts & Tenders

    Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has picked Global Wind Service (GWS) as a partner for the complete pre-assembly scope for the 497 MW Fécamp offshore wind farm in France. The offshore wind farm, also known as Parc éolien en mer de Fécamp, will feature 71 Siemens Gamesa 7 MW wind turbines. The Global Wind Service’s scope […]

  • Fécamp Foundations Contract Valued at EUR 552 Million

    2 June 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    Bouygues Construction, Saipem and Boskalis will supply and install the wind turbine foundations for the Fécamp offshore wind farm under a EUR 552 million contract with the project developer. The contract value is divided between each of the three contractors according to to their share of work scope: 40.5% for Bouygues Travaux Publics, 40.5% for […]

  • RTE Seeks Cable Storage for French Offshore Wind Triplets

    15 October 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    Réseau de Transport d’Electricité (RTE) has opened a tender seeking cable storage services for the Saint-Nazaire, Courseulles-sur-Mer and Fécamp offshore wind projects in France. RTE is looking for a provider of storage services for the 225kV submarine power cables, and optionally junctions and accessories for the three projects. The contractor will be in charge of […]

  • Piles In for Fécamp Offshore Substation Jacket

    14 April 2022
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    DEME Offshore’s jack-up vessel Sea Installer has installed the four piles for the jacket foundation that will support the offshore substation (OSS) of the Fécamp wind farm in French waters. The jacket is scheduled to be installed this Summer. For the piling work, some five vessels were mobilised, according to Eolien Maritime France (EMF), including […]

  • Prysmian Secures Contracts for Three Offshore Wind Farms in France

    29 August 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Prysmian Group has secured inter-array cable contracts worth over EUR 220 million for three offshore wind farms in France.

  • Fécamp Offshore Substation Completed and Ready to Go

    27 June 2022
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Atlantique Offshore Energy has completed the construction of the offshore substation for the 500 MW Fécamp wind farm offshore France. According to the company, a marine energy business unit of Chantiers de l’Atlantique, the offshore substation will soon be installed at the project’s site located more than 13 kilometres off the Normandy coast. “We are happy to […]

  • Fécamp Substation Topside Sails Away

    25 July 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    The topside for the offshore substation of the 500 MW Fécamp wind farm has left Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard and is headed toward the project’s construction site located more than 13 kilometres off the coast of Normandy, France. Atlantique Offshore Energy, a marine business unit of Chantiers de l’Atlantique, completed the construction of the topside […]

  • Macron Inaugurates France’s First Offshore Wind Farm

    22 September 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    French President Emmanuel Macron has arrived at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm, located between 12 and 20 kilometres off the coast of the Guérande peninsula, where he will inaugurate the country’s first commercial-scale project of this kind. At the beginning of this month, the last of the total of 80 wind turbines was installed at the […]

  • Fécamp OWF to Feature Seatower’s Gravity Foundation

    8 May 2014

    The developers of the Fécamp offshore wind farm have chosen to demonstrate and install Seatower’s patented Cranefree Gravity® foundation design. The Fécamp project, being jointly developed by EDF Energies Nouvelles, DONG Energy and wpd offshore, is located 13km off the coast of Normandy. The Fécamp demonstrator project is the final step in Seatower’s objective to […]

  • Calvados Offshore Substation Topside Touches Down

    30 March 2023
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The substation topside has been installed on the 450 MW Calvados offshore wind project in France, also known as the Courseulles-sur-Mer offshore wind farm. The operation was carried out by DEME’s installation vessel Gulliver more than ten kilometres off the coast of Nacre and Bessin. The substation topside was designed and manufactured by Atlantique Offshore […]

  • Rosetti Marino Cuts First Steel for Fécamp OWF’s OSS Jacket

    23 February 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Rosetti Marino has cut the first steel for the jacket foundation that will support the offshore substation (OSS) at the Fécamp offshore wind farm in France. The Italian company is building the jacket at its Piomboni Yard in Ravenna for Chantiers de l’Atlantique, which won a contract for the offshore wind farm at the beginning […]

  • LOC Supporting EDF’s French OWFs

    27 February 2017
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    LOC Group’s Paris-based renewables team is providing marine warranty surveying services for the Fécamp, Courseulles-sur-Mer and Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farms in France, developed by a consortium led by EDF Énergies Nouvelles and Enbridge.