Saint-Nazaire Offshore Wind Farm: Jan De Nul finishes turbine installation

Installation began on 1 April, while on 5 September, the 80th and last turbine was successfully installed. Meanwhile, Jan De Nul’s Offshore Jack-Up Installation Vessel Vole au vent transported and installed 80 sets of 6 MW wind turbines for the first commercial wind farm in French waters. This wind farm will have a total capacity of 480 MW, which is equivalent to 20% of the Loire-Atlantique’s annual electricity consumption.

Pieter Vandezande, Project Manager at Jan De Nul Group: “The Saint-Nazaire wind farm is a milestone project for Jan De Nul, as this is France’s first offshore wind farm. We are proud to support the country in its energy transition by making possible the delivery of the first electricity produced by the very first French offshore wind farm. The exceptional installation progress has been the result of an extensive engineering process, optimized vessel preparation and planning, and an excellent collaboration with Parc éolien en mer de Saint-Nazaire and the turbine supplier GE.”