In France, the wind offshore players are on war footing. The Government must launch from this school a gigantic solicitation for wind turbines to the French coast. A call for tenders in size since it will focus on at least 3,000 megawatts of power or the equivalent of two nuclear reactors EPR.
Also highly strategic, tender must not only allow the setting up of new equipment providing electricity but also contribute to give rise to a genuine industrial sector in France in this sector. Its implementation will require a volume of 15 to 20 billion euros investments, shows to the Ministry of ecology and energy. It should result in the installation of at least 600 wind turbines off the French coast with today - even today none of these "farms of blade".
Steps of installation before 2015
In what areas the machines will be put in place After having presented his project early may, the Government had planned to quickly reveal ten areas to accommodate wind turbines.
Interest suddenly to a large number of ports and development for the solicitation agencies has forced the State to push the idea in September. But the major axes are defined. The areas will be located in the Pays de la Loire, the North of Brittany, Languedoc-Roussillon and Normandy, on an area ranging from Seine Bay to the Bay of Somme. This approach will help minimize the impact on the landscape and the navigation. The State should also cut each of these areas into lots to share the cost of the connection infrastructure.
The whole process will take place over a long period. The installation of the first wind turbines is not expected before early 2015. Especially, the tender will include a device never used so far by the Department of Ecology: a period of "thrown of risk". Clearly, selected candidates will be permanently retained after a period of one year and a half, at the end of which they have confirmed the "feasibility of price". Otherwise, the procedure will be reopened. This was to avoid selecting projects attractive on paper but unachievable. Launched in 2004, the first tender of wind at sea had no concrete result.
Random prizes
Professionals are particularly attentive to this issue. "In the field of renewable energy, we had very bad experiences with tendering, says Marion Lettry, General Commissioner Assistant within the Union renewable energy sources (RES)." The price test cancels all the others and we are left with the less expensive projects but also the most fragile.
Wind power offshore, the risk of failure is particularly high. The installation of a machine that requires a thorough study of the seabed. Taking into account their costs, these studies are never conducted upstream. What makes enough random proposed prices.
The amount and complexity of the projects will also impose the establishment of large consortia. Expected in clusters between groups electricians as GDF Suez or Iberdrola, manufacturers such as Siemens, General Electric and Alstom turbines and civil engineering professionals. The French Government wants to avoid the medium-sized companies in obtaining permits.
Entries will be judged on the proposed price but on their ability to use the port infrastructure and French know-how. For maintenance at sea and specialists of the large units such as shipyards STX (Saint-Nazaire and Lorient), this type of project could as a breath of oxygen. What motivate the implementation of an important offshore area off the coast of the Pays de la Loire.
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