Eoliennes Offshore du Calvados SAS (EODC), a joint-venture established by EDF Renewables, Canada’s Enbridge Inc., and Germany’s wpd AG, has awarded Saipem SpA an EUR460 million (US$558 million) construction contract to build the foundation of the Courseulles-sur-Mer offshore wind farm project planned in Normandy, France.
The wind farm is designed to have a 450 MW generating capacity from about 75 GE Haliade 150-6MW turbines.
Saipem will build 64 large steel monopiles with transition pieces that will support the wind turbines.