It is the project with the largest workload to date signed by the two companies.
Ocean Winds has signed a capacity reservation agreement with the Navantia-Windar joint venture to manufacture 62 offshore wind turbine jackets at the Fene shipyard for the French offshore wind farm Diéppe le Tréport, promoted by the company Ocean Winds.
It is the largest wind farm commissioned from Windar-Navantia to date. The French wind farm at Dieppe Le Tréport will have a generating capacity of 496 MW, enough to supply around 850,000 people with sustainable electricity per year from 2026.
Fabrication work will start at the Fene shipyard in the first quarter of 2023 and will last approximately two years and four million working hours.
As has been the usual practice in the offshore wind orders won by the joint venture between the two companies, the Asturian company will manufacture the piles – steel cylinders on which each of the jackets’ legs are anchored – at its facilities in Avilés, 248 units to be precise.
Ocean Winds announced last July that it had contracted Navantia-Windar in 2022 for 14 monopiles to be built at the new factory in Fene. The monopiles are a type of fixed foundation, different from the jacket, which consists of a single pillar for each wind turbine.
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