The noise impacts of drilling are compatible with the normal life cycle of the fish species studied. Ailes Marines decided to abandon the driving technique and favor the drilling method for the installation of the piles. Turbidity generated during the work will have a low impact on the environment. Ifremer validates the reference state of the fishery resource studies carried out by Ailes Marines and RTE.
Following the tooling tests carried out in the summer of 2020 and despite the very complex conditions of the site's seabed, Ailes Marines confirms its objective of 100% burying all of the inter-wind turbine cables at the Saint-Brieuc wind farm. Completely burying the cables would represent a major step forward for navigation safety and a further step towards maintaining fishing activities within the park.
Ailes Marines would like to provide details and clarifications on numerous assertions and untruths which are regularly expressed about the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm.
Ailes Marines points out that:
● The wind farm area
The 180 km2 area submitted to call for tenders in 2011 for the establishment of an offshore wind farm off the coast of the Bay of Saint-Brieuc was defined by the State, following a consultation process with all regional stakeholders carried out in 2010, under the aegis of the Regional Sea and Coast Conference, in which representatives of professional fishermen participated.
On this perimeter, Ailes Marines selected – after consultation in 2011 – an area for the park to be reduced to 75 km2. Thus, in order to limit the landscape impact and the impact on the commercial exploitation of scallops, Ailes Marines avoided the main deposit, located in the southern part of the call for tender area, by choosing to locate its project 6 km further north, on part of the secondary scallop shell deposit called Gisement du Large.
One year after the selection of the Navantia-Windar consortium to manufacture the foundations of the wind turbines for the Saint-Brieuc offshore park, the two companies are now established in the Brest polder and are actively collaborating with Breton companies. Seventeen local companies have already worked on the Navantia-Windar site located on the new EMR terminal in Brest. Two new contracts were signed today and the consortium is in negotiations with 20 other companies.
Ailes Marines a company 100% owned by Iberdrola, in charge of the construction, installation and operation of the Saint-Brieuc Bay offshore wind farm, announced today the selection of GE Grid Solutions, a division of GE Renewable Energy, for the supply of the main electrical equipment for the substation of the Saint Brieuc offshore wind farm.
Ailes Marines, a company 100% owned by Iberdrola, in charge of the construction, installation and operation of the Saint-Brieuc Bay offshore wind farm, today announces the award to the two French companies Eiffage Métal and ENGIE Solutions, of the construction contract for the park's electrical substation.
