Ocean Winds has signed a capacity reservation agreement with Navantia-Windar consortium to manufacture 62 jackets for wind turbines to be built in Fene (La Coruña), for its offshore wind farm in Dieppe le Tréport, in northern France waters.
The Dieppe Le Tréport wind farm in France will have a generating capacity of 496MW. The wind farm is owned by the consortium formed by Ocean Winds (a JV of Engie and EDP Renováveis), the Japanese company Sumitomo Corporation and the French financial institution Banque des Territoires. Fabrication works will begin at the Fene shipyard in the first quarter of 2023 and will last approximately two years. The jackets for this contract will be four-legged jackets, weighing around 1,000 tonnes. In addition, Navantia Seanergies will build two substation jackets in Puerto Real, one of them for the electrical substation of this wind farm and the second for the one of Îles d'Yeu et Noirmoutier.