Regulatory News:
The European consortium comprising EDF Energies Nouvelles and
company, wpd offshore, have announced that they have submitted two
bids for the Tréport and Ile d’ Yeu/Ile de Noirmoutier
projects. These two projects fall within the framework of
the second call for tenders for French offshore wind energy
projects, representing total new capacity of 1,000 MW to be
installed by 2023. This reinforces the ambitious plan already
taking place with Alstom (Paris:ALO) , partner for the
turbines.
An additional 1,000 MW of offshore wind energy for
France
In March 2013, the French government launched a call for tenders
for the construction and operation of two large-scale offshore wind
farms:
1. One site located off Tréport in the
Haute Normandie region;2. One site between the Ile d’ Yeu
and Ile de Noirmoutier in the Pays de la Loire region.
Each site offers capacity of 480-500 MW to be brought into
service between 2021 and 2023.
This national call for tenders for 1,000 MW is in addition to
the first call for tenders for 2,500 MW launched in 2011, which
comprised five wind energy projects off the French coast (the
Channel and the Atlantic). Three of the four lots awarded by the
Government were won by the consortium headed by EDF Energies
Nouvelles: Fécamp (498 MW), Courseulles-sur-Mer (450
MW) and Saint-Nazaire (480 MW). These projects are due to
come into service starting from 2018.
Successful collaboration set to continue
The European consortium made up of EDF Energies Nouvelles
and wpd offshore with Alstom as exclusive supplier
for the turbines represents a strong alliance, demonstrated by the
many years of collaboration in the three projects won together
during the first call for tenders.The quality of propositions made
and the accuracy of the studies conducted at the time of the first
call for tenders were verified at the end of the risk assessment
period. The three project companies created for the first call for
tenders each confirmed on 23 October, that the projects would
continue in accordance with the initial pricing offer, technical
options and timetable presented in the applications made in
2012.The extension of this partnership for the second call for
tenders will enable the different parties involved to capitalise on
the operating and working methods established over the last two or
more years, as well as their shared vision.On November, 29th 2013,
the consortium filed two solid, tailored and realistic offers based
on the technical and environmental studies conducted over several
years by renowned research engineering offices.The consortium also
benefits from the enhanced expertise of its partners.Over the last
few years, EDF Energies Nouvelles has become French market
leader in offshore wind energy. It recently consolidated this
position with the 325 MW brought into service in Belgium, 62 MW in
the United Kingdom and 2,500 MW under development, including 1,500
MW in France and 1,000 MW in the United Kingdom.
In Germany, wpd offshore has developed the first offshore
wind farm in Baltic sea (launched in 2011) and has secured the
financing of the project Butendiek (80 wind turbines in North Sea
and 1.3 bn ivestment), which construction will begin springtime
2014 under wpd’s responsibility.Eight offshore projects in Europe
are fully permitted for a total power output of 2.5 GW. In France,
wpd offshore has identified the sites of Fécamp,
Courseulles-sur-Mer and the area located between Yeu and
Noirmoutier islands. These projects have been defined in close
cooperation with the local stakeholders. Technical and
environmental studies performed, and consultation’s meetings have
been decisive to define the projects.
Partners ready to build up French industry
The submission of bids for these two additional projects
confirms the consortium’s aim - with Alstom as manufacturer of wind
turbines - to build up and consolidate an ambitious industrial plan
ensuring a long-term future for Alstom’s wind offshore plants. This
new capacity will provide opportunities in the medium term for the
plants securing an additional activity of approximately one year
per wind farm, and give Alstom the visibility to export its
activities.
The implementation of the industrial plan is expected to create
5,000 jobs including 1,000 direct jobs. As part of the plan, Alstom
has begun building four plants to manufacture various key
components of the wind turbines. The two Saint-Nazaire plants which
will produce the nacelles and the generators have been under
construction since spring 2013 and are due to be completed in late
2014. Building permit application for the blades and tower
factories in Cherbourg will be soon submitted.
When you add construction and operation/maintenance activities,
a total of .around 8,500 direct and indirect jobs will be created
across the five French projects, thus creating an industrial
cluster dedicated to offshore wind. As part of this effort, Alstom
and EDF Energies Nouvelles have carried out important upstream
work, reinforcing discussions with local partners such as Neopolia
and Vendée Expansion in order to identify and qualify offshore
industry subcontractors.
At the same time, Alstom completed the offshore installation of
its new-generation offshore wind turbine, the 6-MW Haliade™ 150,
one of the largest offshore wind turbine on the market off Ostend
harbour at the Belwind site in Belgium. This is one of the most
efficient offshore wind turbine since its yield is 15% better than
existing offshore turbines. Following successful IEC1 power
performance measurement certification (power curve2), obtained in
May 2013 on the first Haliade 150 commissioned at Le Carnet site in
France, the machine is expected to secure its final certification
during the first half of 2014. The offshore installation will help
confirm how the machine behaves within the offshore environment for
which it was specifically designed and developed.
About EDF Energies Nouvelles
Operating in Europe and North America, EDF Energies Nouvelles is
a market leader in green electricity production, with a portfolio
of 6,358 MW of gross installed capacity. With a development focused
on wind and solar photovoltaic energy, the Company recently entered
new promising markets: Israel, Morocco, South Africa and Poland,
and is expanding its business in offshore wind energy. The Company
is also present in other segments of the renewable energy market:
marine energy, biogas, biomass and small hydro as well as in
distributed energies. EDF EN manages renewable energy projects’
development and construction as well as operation and maintenance
for its own account and for third parties. EDF Energies Nouvelles
is a subsidiary of the EDF Group and its renewable energy arm.For
more information, please visit: www.edf-energies-nouvelles.com.
About wpd
wpd is a developer and operator of wind farms with activities in
20 countries in Europe and overseas. So far, wind farms with some
1,500 turbines and a total output of 2.5 GW have been implemented
by wpd group and international projects with a further 6.7 GW
onshore are under development. With a pipeline of 10 GW, wpd is
among Europe’s leading developers for offshore wind farms. One of
the first commercial offshore wind farms, Baltic 1, has been
developed by wpd and launched in 2011. wpd is developing offshore
projects in Germany, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, France and
Italy.wpd offshore100 % affiliate of the wpd group, Bremen
Worldwide, one of the leading developers of offshore wind farms
with a pipeline of 18 projects (totaling 10 GW) and activities in 6
countries (Germany, France, Sweden, Finland, Italy, Denmark)
- The value chain covers project
development, construction as well as operational management
- So far, 8 projects in Germany, Sweden
and Finland have been successfully developed until final
consent
- Procurement for 3 projects with a total
investment volume of more than 2.5 billion Euros
- Construction management for 2 offshore
wind projects (including Baltic 1, Germany’s first commercial
offshore wind farm)
- Developer of and shareholder in 2 of
the 4 projects that have been tendered in France so
far.www.wpd-offshore.fr
About Alstom
Alstom is a global leader in the world of power generation,
power transmission and rail infrastructure and sets the benchmark
for innovative and environmentally friendly technologies. Alstom
builds the fastest train and the highest capacity automated metro
in the world, provides turnkey integrated power plant solutions and
associated services for a wide variety of energy sources, including
hydro, nuclear, gas, coal and wind, and it offers a wide range of
solutions for power transmission, with a focus on smart grids. The
Group employs 93,000 people in around 100 countries. It had sales
of over €20 billion and booked close to €24 billion in orders in
2012/13. www.alstom.com
1 IEC: International Electrotechnical Commission2 Power curve:
Determines the turbine’s electricity production as a function of
the average wind speed
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