Friday 10 January 2020

The first steel sheet of the electrical substation for the offshore wind farm of Saint-Nazaire was cut at Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire. Ordered in August 2019 by Parc du Banc de Guérande, held jointly by EDF Renouvelables and Enbridge Inc, the substation will leave the shipyard in the summer of 2021, to be connected with the wind farm in 2022. The substation will collect and transform the electricity produced by wind turbines and transfer it to the shore network, while ensuring remote control of the wind farm.

The delivery of the substation with an estimated total capacity of 500 MW each, should take place in 2022 for the Fecamp instalation and 2023 for the Courseulles-sur-Mer substation.