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Substation installed at Fécamp wind farm

By: Tom Russell 12/08/2022 DEME Group

General Windfarms

DEME Offshore has installed the Fécamp offshore wind farm's substation off the French coast. It deployed construction vessel Orion, the newest member of the DEME fleet, to the 2,200-tonne topside, completing the project on schedule.

Just four months previously, DEME carried out the pre-installation of the offshore substation’s 1,300-tonne jacket foundations utilising another member of the fleet, the DP2 jack-up vessel Sea Installer. DEME Offshore’s unique subsea template facilitated a seamless installation, although in challenging environmental and soil conditions.

Fécamp’s electrical substation was constructed by a consortium including Atlantique Offshore Energy, the business unit of Chantiers de l’Atlantique dedicated to renewable marine energies, GE Grid Solutions and DEME Group’s French subsidiary SDI.

The same consortium has also been selected to design, manufacture and install the electrical substations for the Saint-Nazaire and Courseulles-sur-Mer offshore wind farms in France.

The Fécamp offshore wind farm will be located between 13 and 22 kilometres off the coast of Fécamp in Normandy and is expected to produce the equivalent of the domestic electricity consumption of approximately 770,000 people, representing more than 60% of the inhabitants of the Seine-Maritime area. It is being developed by Eolien Maritime France (a joint venture between the French company EDF Energies Nouvelles and the Canadian company Enbridge) and wpd offshore.
In August 2021, DEME installed the very first offshore substation in France at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm, deploying Allseas’ heavy lift vessel Pioneering Spirit.

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