The government gave the green light on Friday to the project to set up a floating wind farm in the south of Brittany, west of Belle-Île
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The competitive tendering procedure launched in 2021 for the award of a floating offshore wind project with a power of approximately 250 megawatts, off the coast of southern Brittany, is being continued"
, specifies a decision in the Official Journal. , signed by Barbara Pompili, Minister for the Ecological Transition.
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Floating wind turbines represent a new technology that France wants to develop. Their advantage is that they can be installed beyond a depth of 50 meters, and therefore further from the coast than wind turbines placed on the seabed. This makes it possible to reduce visual disturbances and to capture an offshore wind that is more powerful and more regular than that blowing closer to the coast. According to the ministerial document, the selected zone is located to the south of the island of Groix and to the west of Belle-Île, that is, that proposed by the regional fisheries committee.
"The area of this 130 km2 area will be gradually reduced during the competitive process,"
says the government. This decision comes as the conclusions of the public debate were presented at the end of February.
This floating wind farm project will not be the last.
"A second competitive tendering procedure is intended to be launched later for a second floating offshore wind project with a maximum power of around 500 megawatts"
, adds the ministerial decision. France's energy roadmap provides for the allocation of 500 MW of offshore wind power per year after 2025, installed or floating, on the country's various seafronts, until 2030.
