Belgian offshore services provider DEME Offshore has been awarded three contracts for the 500MW Dieppe Le Tréport offshore wind farm located off the French coast in the English Channel.

DEME Offshore has been selected by the owners of Dieppe Le Tréport, which includes Ocean Winds, a joint venture between Engie and EDPR, Sumitomo and the Banque des Territoires. The three contracts, worth more than €300 million, include the transport and installation of needle piles and jackets to form the foundations of the turbines, as well as the transport and installation of needle piles, jacket foundations and the superstructure of the offshore substation.

The company will also undertake the design, procurement, construction and installation of 120 kilometers of inter-array cables for the project. Piling operations for the foundations of the offshore substation will begin next year, with jacket foundations expected to be installed in 2025. After the substation is installed, DEME will use one of the cable installation ships to lay the cables. The developers of the Dieppe Le Tréport offshore wind farm took their final investment decision in April 2023.

It will be the sixth fixed-bottom offshore project to be constructed in France and is expected to be commissioned in 2026. The wind farm, 15 kilometers off the coast of the city of Treport, will include 62 Siemens Gamesa 8MW turbines and will power 850,000 French households annually. Its development investment is about 2.7 billion euros.

The Dieppe Le Tréport contract follows DEME's recent contracts for the installation of monopile foundations in Saint-Nazaire, as well as for the installation of monopile foundations and substations at the Iles d'Yeu and Noirmoutier offshore wind farms.Editor/XingWentao