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Wind Energy france
Photomontage of the offshore wind farm Grand Léjon near Saint
Brieuc in Brittany Montage: Nass & Wind
Status: uncertain
Offshore wind power in France has long been in the ern Atlantic coast (1,000 to 1,500 MW) and the Medi-
terranean (500 to 1,000 MW). 56 project plans were
starting blocks, but again and again there have been assessed in coming up with this forecast and the pol-
iticians have set an interim target of 1,500 MW by
delays in getting things going. Now the sector is 2012. However, apart from the Enertrag project “Côte
demanding additional help from the government. d’Albâtre” in the Channel (see map on page 184,
no.5), which is to be constructed in the coming year
with 21 turbines and a total capacity of 105 MW, none
have so far been approved and the sector is grating its
W
e mustn’t repeat the negative experiences teeth.
we had with onshore wind power. Now is There are many reasons for this malaise. Numer-
the time to act.” It was with this fiery ap- ous projects are being blocked by local authorities.
peal that Philippe Gouverneur approached MPs in This may even simply be because they just don’t
Parisa few weeks ago. The Enertrag Boss and Head of know where the community boundaries run off the
the Commission for Offshore Energy at the French as- coast and which local authority is thus responsible
sociation for renewable energies SER (Syndicat des for the project. In other cases, war munitions must be
Énergies Renouvelables) understands the unrest cleared first. Sometimes a responsible head of de-
within the sector: for years it has had high hopes for partment has considered the risks involved and is de-
offshore projects off the French coast, but unlike in laying a project for this reason. Additionally, there
other European countries, none have been imple- have been reports of objections by the fisheries sec-
mented so far. tor, which fears negative effects on fishing. It also
needs to be clarified whether the project developers
The sector is grating its teeth must carry the costs of the grid connection alone:
“Only very large projects will be viable if this is the
At the end of 2009 the French government set itself case,” says Olivier Guiraud, for example, an offshore
the target of having 25,000 MW of wind power capac- planner for Eole-Res in Avignon. On top of all of this
ity installed by 2020 – 6,000 MW of which are to be there are already bottlenecks in the supply industry
offshore. The French coasts, especially in the north, and amongst the service providers today, such as the
have an enormous wind power potential: according to availability of assembly ships.
a study by the wind energy association France Energie It is unlikely that the many projects have not
Eolienne (SER-FEE), between 5,500 and 7,000 MW of moved forward due to the tariffs for offshore electric-
offshore capacity could be installed by 2020. The ity. These were first introduced in July 2007: for the
study splits this up into areas of the Channel (2,500 to first ten years you will get 13 €-ct/kWh for wind-
3,000 MW), Brittany (1,500 to 2,000 MW), the North- generatedoffshore electricity and after that between
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1 English Channel (n/a)
2 Boulogne (n/a)
Parc des Minquiers (200 MW) 4
3 Les Deux Côtes (705 MW)
Neptune (300 MW) 12
6
5 Côte d'Albâtre II (400 MW)
7
Grand Léjon (Powéo) Côte d'Albâtre (105 MW)
8
(200 MW) 11 9 Poseidon (300 MW)
14 13 10
Grand Léjon (N&W) Hautes Falaises (300 MW)
(200 MW) Le Havre (260 MW)
Orion (125 MW) 16
15 Baie de Seine (300 MW)
18
19
17 Calvados (250 MW)
Rhea (250 MW)
Cherbourg (400 MW)
Helene (315 MW) Les Grunes (84 MW)
Brianna (n/a) Neoen (100 MW)
20 21 DIWET (3,5 MW)
22
23 Parc d'Aıse (100 MW)
24
Projet WINFLO (3 MW)
25 La Banche (72 MW)
26
Banc de Guérande (400 MW)
27 Des Deux Îles (600 MW)
Portes en Ré (120 MW)
28
Offshore wind power
projects in France
Loraine (n/a)
Source: own research, project developer Cap d'Agde (160 MW) 32
31
information, 4C-Global Offshore Wind- Port La Nouvelle (150 MW) 30
farms database Elodie (315 MW) 29
Graphic: Eilers-Media
13 and 3 €-ct/kWh, depending on the quality of the Previous model examples of this are tendering pro
site. Philippe Gouverneur has now proposed a spe- cesses in the Netherlands and Denmark. A first round
cial “starter tariff” in a letter to MPs, to be valid for of tendering for an initial 3,000 MW is to begin in
projects built or approved before the end of 2013. September and the winners will be announced in
This should lie at between 17 and 18 €-ct/kWh (170 mid-2011.
to 180 €/MWh). “Ideally, this tariff should make it “Everyone is eagerly awaiting the tendering,” re-
possible to have at least one project implemented off ports Miriam Sperlich from the coordination office for
each coastal region,” hopes the sector representa- wind power in Berlin. This office supports communi-
tive. These projects, he proposes, should be coupled cation between the French and German wind power
with basic research and could then help move the sectors. At the beginning of July an initial five off-
other projects forward too. shore areas will be designated off the coasts of the
regions Upper Normandy, Brittany, Pays de la Loire,
First round of tendering in Aquitaine and Provence-Alpes-Azur. The ten offshore
September wind power zones are to lie in these regions. “All the
project developers are currently holding back on an-
The administration, meanwhile, is looking for other nouncements. They first want to know what will come
solutions: within the framework of the new French en- of the tendering,” says Sperlich.
vironmental legislation, the original wind power de-
velopment zones for offshore projects have been tak- Three concrete projects
en away again and a special maritime committee
(“Grenelle de la Mer”) has been set up to draw up off- Just a look at the map of current offshore projects
shore regulations. In May the Energy Ministry an- shows that not all the wind farms can be implement-
nounced that it wanted to designate about ten off- ed due to spatial constraints; some of the project
shore wind power zones in a state tendering process zones overlap. Still, according to company state-
(“Appel d’offre de l’Etat”). The licences will be issued ments and the C4 offshore database, 32 projects can
according to the “race to the bottom” principle; those be pinpointed. Most of these are along the Channel
who promise the cheapest electricity generation and coast and the Northern Atlantic coast, with a few in
the quickest implementation will get the approvals. the Mediterranean. Sector experts say the three
184 Sun & Wind Energy 8/2010projects most advanced in their development are the Germany. No other place is as active as they are,”
already-mentioned “Côte d’Albâtre” by Enertrag says Sperlich. The coordination office for wind power
France in Upper Normandy (105 MW), “Les Deux is organising a French-German offshore conference
Côtés” by La Compagnie du Vent/GDF Suez (also in with an excursion in Bremerhaven on 26th and 27th
Upper Normandy, 705 MW) and “Grand Léjon”, also October, together with the Wind Energy Agency
known as “Baie de St. Brieuc” by Poweo in Brittany Bremerhaven. Martin Frey
(200 MW).
Côte d’Albâtre may join the grid next year with its Further information:
Coordination office for wind power: www.wind-eole.com
21 Multibrid M5000 turbines (5 MW each). The wind Grenelle de la Mer: www.legrenelle-mer.gouv.fr
farm was approved in 2008 and lies within the 12 Le Havre Développement: www.havre-developpement.com
mile zone. The others are to follow two or three years Offshore database: www.4coffshore.com
Wind Energy Association FEE: www.fee.asso.fr
later. Whether other projects join them in this period Wind statistics for France: www.suivi-eolien.com
will have to wait to be seen – there are numerous oth- Project developers:
ers announced in the project list for 2012. And yet ex- Blue H France SA: www.bluehgroup.com
EDF EN France:
perience from the last few years shows: quite a few www.edf-energies-nouvelles.com/english/index_gb.asp
inaugurations have been pushed back repeatedly. Enertrag France: www.enertrag.com
Still, a large number of coastal towns and cities Eole Res: www.eoleres.com
Innovent: www.innovent.eu
are preparing to set off into a new offshore era, led by La Compagnie du Vent GDF SUEZ: www.compagnieduvent.com
Le Havre, whose port authority is actively campaign- Maïa Power: www.maia-power.fr
ing to attract companies from the wind power sector Nass & Wind Offshore: www.nass-et-wind.com
Neoen – Groupe Direct Energie: www.neoen.fr
and has designated industrial land accordingly. “They Powéo: www.poweo.com
are making intense efforts to be a pioneer here – as Vent d´Ouest/Ventis (BEL): www.ventdouest.eu
in the model example of Bremerhaven in northern WPD Offshore France SAS: www.wpd-projetdeuxiles.fr
Offshore wind energy projects in France
No. Name of the project Region Status Number of turbines Total capacity [MW] Project developer
1 English Channel Nord-Pas-de-Calais n/a n/a n/a EDF EN France
2 Boulogne Nord-Pas-de-Calais planned 4 n/a Innovent
3 Les Deux Côtés Haute-Normandy proposed 141 705 La Compagnie du Vent/GDF SUEZ
4 Côte d’Albâtre II Haute-Normandy planned n/a 400 Enertrag France
5 Côte d’Albâtre Haute-Normandy approved 21 105 Enertrag France
6 Poseidon Haute Normandy n/a 60 300 Maïa Power
7 Hautes Falaises Haute-Normandy planned 60 300 WPD Offshore France SAS
8 Le Havre Haute-Normandy planned 52 260 Vent d’Ouest/Ventis (BEL)
9 Baie de Seine Basse-Normandy proposed 50 300 Poweo
10 Calvados Basse-Normandy proposed 50 250 WPD Offshore France
11 Rhea Basse-Normandy n/a 50 250 Maïa Power
12 Cherbourg Basse-Normandy planned n/a 400 Enertrag France
13 Les Grunes Nord-Pas-de-Calais planned 28 84 Eole Res
14 Neoen Nord-Pas-de-Calais planned 20 100 Neoen - Groupe Direct Energie
15 Parc des Minquiers Bretagne planned 40 200 Nass & Wind Offshore
16 Neptune Bretagne planned 60 300 Maïa Power
17 Grand Léjon (Poweo) Bretagne proposed 35 200 Poweo
18 Grand Léjon (N&W) Bretagne n/a 40 200 Nass & Wind Offshore
19 Orion Bretagne n/a 25 125 Maïa Power
20 Helene Bretagne planned 90 315 Blue H France SA
21 Brianna Bretagne planned n/a n/a Blue H France SA
22 DIWET Bretagne planned 1 3.5 i.a. Blue H France SA
23 Parc d’Aïse Bretagne planned 20 100 Nass & Wind Offshore
24 Projet WINFLOW Bretagne planned 1 3 Nass & Wind Offshore
25 La Banche Pays de la Loire planned n/a 72 EDF EN France
26 Banc de Guérande Pays de la Loire planned 80 400 Nass & Wind Offshore
27 Des Deux Îles Pays de la Loire planned 120 600 WPD Offshore France
28 Portes-en-Ré Poitou-Charentes planned 24 120 Enertrag France
29 Elodie Languedoc-Roussillon planned 90 315 Blue H France SA
30 Port La Nouvelle Languedoc-Roussillon planned n/a 150 EDF EN France
31 Cap d’Agde Languedoc-Roussillon n/a n/a 160 EDF EN France
32 Loraine Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur planned n/a n/a Blue H France SA
Apart from no. 5 “Côte d’Albâtre”, no further offshore projects have been approved in France. All other projects are either in planning or
have applications running. The siting of the potential farms is only shown roughly and preliminarily. No liability is assumed for any of the
information. Source: own research, project developer information, 4C-Global Offshore Windfarms database Status: July 2010
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