The operation and maintenance base of the Calvados offshore wind farm was inaugurated today, in the presence of Bruno Bensasson, Executive Director of the EDF group in charge of renewable energies and CEO of EDF Renouvelables, Hervé Morin, President of Ports of Normandy and the Normandy Region, Michel Fricout, Vice-President of the Department of Calvados, Romain Bail, Mayor of Ouistreham – Riva-Bella, Marc Véran, Maritime Prefect of the Channel and the North Sea, Thierry Mosimann, Prefect of Calvados and Bernard Guitton, Director of the Calvados offshore wind farm for the consortium formed by EDF Renewables, EIH s.à.rl (subsidiary of Enbridge Inc. and CPP Investments) and Skyborn.
The inauguration of the operation and maintenance base is a major step leading up to the commissioning of the wind farm scheduled for 2025. Its installation was made possible thanks to the development work on the outer port carried out by Ports of Normandy. This event was also an opportunity to reveal the work carried out to bring to life the memory of the Normandy landings of 1944 in accordance with the commitment made during consultations with the territory.
The Ouistreham operation and maintenance base: nerve center of the offshore wind farm
Located in Ouistreham, the operation and maintenance base is the control center for the Calvados offshore wind farm. It will ensure 24/7 supervision of the park from the ground, starting during the construction phase.
The base has two main functions:
• During the construction phase and the operation phase, a team will coordinate activities in real time
maritime rights of the wind farm and will authorize interventions and access to the park. It will also ensure, from the base, security and real-time monitoring of the disposition of the ships. It will also control the certification of personnel and ships.
• In the operational phase, the base staff will carry out various missions such as preventive and curative maintenance, monitoring and optimization of the park's production, meteorological monitoring, planning of interventions and monitoring of access to the park.
By 2025, around a hundred long-term jobs will be created to ensure the operation and maintenance of the park (maintenance technicians, supervisory technicians, operations manager, logisticians, HQSE technicians, assistant, maritime coordinator, HSE manager, etc.). Local recruitment began at the start of 2023 and will end in 2025.
This multifunctional building has 1,200 m2 of warehouse and 800 m2 of office. Its construction required a year of work under the direction of Abscis Bertin Construction, a company based in Caen, and enabled the creation of 753 hours of social integration distributed among 7 people who carried out various works (concrete construction, installation of carpentry, construction of metal structures, etc.).
History in the heart of the park
Given its location more than 12 km off the coast where the Normandy landings took place in June 1944, and in accordance with its commitments made following the public debate, the Calvados offshore wind farm project teams have fully taken into account the duty of Memory linked to the Landing.
To pay tribute to this major event in History and bring its memory to life, each wind turbine in the Calvados offshore wind farm will bear the name of a ship that participated in Operation 'Overlord' of the Landings and the Battle of Normandy. This work is the culmination of a reflection carried out for 10 years by a “History and Duty of Memory” group, formed to support this memorial approach. Bringing together representatives of the coastal communities of the Bessin coasts, historians, veterans' associations, museum representatives and those involved in the memory of the Second World War, this working group in which the park team participated was hosted by the National Office for Veterans and War Victims (ONACVG) of Calvados.
Development work on the outer port of Ouistreham
In 2019, Ports de Normandie extended the port of Caen-Ouistreham by 3 ha to allow the consortium to establish the operation and maintenance base for the Calvados offshore wind farm. This base concretizes the partnership work undertaken for several years between the park teams and Ports of Normandy and is part of a major investment program – more than €30 million – at the port.
Indeed, in addition to the pontoons reserved for the vessels transporting the operation and maintenance personnel of the future wind farm, these developments aim to guarantee the economic future of the port via a new entry system for commercial ships into the lock. West (“Embectage”) but also to improve the working conditions of the port community and host fishermen and boaters. €30.2 million was devoted to the overall project to develop the Caen-Ouistreham outer port, distributed as follows:
• Maintenance Base (development of the median, dredging, pontoons, landscaping, networks, etc.): €9.3 million including €2.5 million dedicated to the 3 ha extension (Normandy Region: €2.38 million / Department of Calvados: €120,000).
• Embectage: €11.5 million (Normandy region: €4.8 million / Calvados department: €2.5 million / CCI: €2 million / Equity: €2.2 million)
• Other developments in the outer port (pleasure, fishing and fuel pontoons, launching slipway and parking, exterior CANO developments, etc.): €9.4 million (Normandy Region: €4.6 million / Department of Calvados: €0.2 million / Caen la Mer: €0.4 million / Equity: €4.2 million
Bernard Guitton, Director of the Calvados offshore wind farm of EDF Renewables declared on behalf of the consortium: “The park's operation and maintenance base, which we are proud to inaugurate, will accommodate around a hundred people who will participate in the country's energy transition. We are pleased that this new stage today brings together all the stakeholders in the region, who have always supported this low-carbon energy project in the Normandy region. This day marks further progress on the project and also allows us to respect the commitment made during consultations with the region. In particular, the Calvados offshore wind farm team wanted to pay tribute to those who participated in the Landing almost 80 years ago as part of a memorial approach designed with the “History and Duty to Remember” group. .
Hervé Morin, President of Ports of Normandy and the Normandy Region said : “In the outer port of Ouistreham, there are now ferries, fishing boats which can moor in complete safety before passing through the locks, mega cargo ships like the General Fraser, a 200 m bulk carrier. long and 24 m wide which has just broken all the tonnage records in the history of the Port of Caen-Ouistreham, the SNSM ship which has a brand new pontoon... Soon, they will be joined by the maintenance vessels of the Calvados offshore wind farm and by boaters who will be able to come and enjoy the new waiting pontoons and the refurbished slipway. When we say that the mission of Ports de Normandie is to contribute to the economic development of the territory, I believe we have proof here! ".
About the Calvados offshore wind farm
Led by EDF Renewables, EIH S.à.rl (subsidiary of Enbridge Inc. and CPP Investments) and Skyborn Renewables, the Calvados offshore wind farm, with an expected installed capacity of 450 MW, will be made up of 64 localized wind turbines. more than 12 km from the coast of Bessin. Commissioned in the third quarter of 2025, the park will then produce the equivalent of the annual electricity consumption of 630,000 people, or more than 90% of the inhabitants of Calvados.
The Calvados offshore wind farm is an example of an industrial sector that creates value and jobs for the regions and responds to local and national energy and economic challenges.
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About Ports of Normandy
Owner and manager of the ports of Caen-Ouistreham, Cherbourg and Dieppe, Ports de Normandie are: 6,000 direct and indirect jobs / €435 million invested in Normandy since its creation in 2007 / 100 ha dedicated to Marine Renewable Energies, a base of maintenance in Caen-Ouistreham and another to come in Dieppe / 2 million cross-Channel passengers per year / 6.5 million tonnes of goods per year / Nearly 60 cruise calls per year and more than 100,000 cruise passengers / 3,200 pleasure berths, a dry port and 33,000 overnight stays - 7,500 visitors per year / more than 12,000 tonnes of fish, or 1/3 of the fishing tonnage declared in Normandy / more than 300 fishing trips per year.
Ports de Normandie is the result of the alliance of the Normandy Region, the departments of Calvados, Manche and Seine Maritime and the Agglomerations of Caen la Mer, Le Cotentin and Dieppe Maritime, serving the economic development of their territories.
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