Now Playing: Le gouvernement lance l appel d offres pour l eolien offshore
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Wind Energy Update: Alstom and EDF are planning on submitting a joint bid in France's forthcoming offshore wind tender process. What amount of the proposed 6000MW will the Alstom-EDF consortium bid for?
Alstom-EDF bank on 6MW turbine to secure lion’s share of France offshore wind
24 January 2011
In anticipation of the government’s call for tenders, EDF Energies Nouvelles last week signed an agreement with power goliath Alstom to jointly bid in the offshore wind tender process. Under the agreement Alstom will be the exclusive supplier of 6MW offshore wind turbines, (to be market-ready from 2013), for the construction of offshore wind farms developed by EDF Energies Nouvelles and its partners.
Wind Energy Update speaks to Philippe Cochet, Senior Vice-President of Alstom Hydro & Wind about Alstom’s pact with EDF Energies Nouvelles to jointly bid for the France’s proposed 6GW of offshore wind, and to learn more about Alstom’s latest 6MW direct drive turbine.
The French government is poised to launch the first round of bidding for 3GW (of a planned 6GW) of offshore wind farms, with France’s President, Nicolas Sarkozy, expected to outline the main points of the €10 billion offshore wind tender process on Tuesday 25th.
France has set a goal of producing 23 per cent of its power needs from renewable resources by 2020, of which 6,000 MW will be from offshore wind power. The proposed 600-turbine offshore wind farms are slated to be built on five sites between Saint-Nazaire and Dieppe/Le Tréport.
source: social.windenergyupdate.com/qa/alstom-edf
Le gouvernement lance l'appel
d'offres pour l'éolien offshore
Nicolas Sarkozy doit annoncer, mardi matin, les modalités d'un appel d'offres de 10 milliards d'euros pour un vaste projet d'éolien en mer.
source: lepoint.fr/economie