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The pilot project for the deployment of seven tidal turbines off Cherbourg in Normandy, driven by EDF and Naval Energies, could be called into question after Naval Energies announced that it had stopped investing in this technology, indicated Naval Energies Friday to AFP.
"We will not provide" the tidal turbines and "this project is extinguished with the Naval Energies stop of its activities in tidal turbines", affirmed to AFP a spokesman for the Naval Group subsidiary
EDF and DCNS (now Naval Group) were chosen by the State in 2014 to develop this pilot fleet, called Normandy Hydro, and located 3.5 km off Goury (Manche)
The seven tidal turbines of 2 megawatts and 16 meters in diameter were to be built by OpenHydro, an Irish company bought by Naval Group, and now placed in receivership.
EDF had not yet formally pbaded machine control at OpenHydro and the production had not started at the Cherbourg plant for this park, said the spokesman for Naval Energies.
On the side of the electrician, it is only necessary to "take the time to 'badyze the situation', before deciding on the future of this pilot park, the financial support of the French State was given the green light Brussels Thursday.
OpenHydro could find a buyer, and in the In the opposite case, the conditions for a change of supplier during the project remain to be specified.
The other pilot fleet selected in 2014 by the State, driven by Engie and Alstom, was abandoned in 2017, after the decision General Electric, which bought the energy branch of Alstom, to stop the development of the turbine turbine.
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