The development of offshore wind power is ramping up this year. Six months after awarding the installation of a dozen floating wind turbines in the south of Morbihan to the Pennavel consortium, the Ministry of Energy Transition has selected twelve candidates selected for the construction and operation of a new floating wind farm, twice as important, right next door, off the coast of Groix and Belle-Ile (Morbihan). There we find the usual candidates like EDF renewables, Total Energygies or the Spanish group Iberdrola manager of the park off the coast of Saint-Brieuc.
A new consortium
We also find the German renewable energy producer BayWa re and the Belgian Elicio. United within the Pennavel consortium which must commission the first part of the park off the coast of Morbihan by 2031, the two groups are applying this time separately. “Pennavel is a project company that was created exclusively for the former. It is not intended to apply for other calls for tenders,” explains Aldrik de Fombelle, its director and head of offshore development at Elicio. He also specifies that this is a new park and not an extension per se.
As for the choice of its shareholders, BayWa re and Elicio, to apply separately, he questions the opponents of the project and in particular the association Les Gardiens du Large. It highlights the financial difficulties of the parent company BayWay, whose share price has been turbulent since last July. “This decision is linked to strategic considerations and the specific conditions of this call for tenders,” answers Angélique Logodin, director of offshore development at BayWa France and deputy director of Pennavel. The winner is scheduled to be designated in October 2025 for commissioning between 2032 and 2035. The extension should increase the fleet from a dozen wind turbines in 2031 to around thirty by 2035, depending on their power.
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