Meet ABL France at FOWT24 | Marseille, France
With France’s plans for two 250 MW floating offshore wind projects in the Mediterranean Sea, catch up with our team at ABL France, to discuss challenges and opportunities ahead in bringing the projects to live and navigating the local marine value chain and risk.
Who is going: Vincent Frasse-Mathon, Head of Consulting and Owner’s Engineering for ABL France
When: 24-2 April
Where: Marseille, France
ABL’s experience in developing France’s Offshore Wind
ABL France, based in Paris, and benefitting from the specialised engineering support in marine renewable energy technologies, from its sister company, Innosea, based in Nantes, has been party to the major steps in France’s offshore wind development:
- +12 offshore projects
- +3 GW of combined capacity
- Multi-disciplinary marine and engineering support to France’s first operational offshore wind farm, Saint Nazaire
Catch up with Vincent Frasse-Mathon at FOWT24, to discuss energy, marine and engineering solutions to navigate key challenges in the development of the French Mediterranean’s floating wind future, as below to name a few:
- Supply chain readiness in the Mediterranean region to meet the demand from floating wind transportation & installation (T&I), and future operations & maintenance (O&M)
- Local ports and harbour infrastructure feasibility
- Marine fleet availability and readiness
- Cabling considerations and grid connection
- Understanding unique environmental conditions at designated sites – geo-conditions, wind measurement and metocean
- Mobilisation of skilled personnel
Find out more by reading our blog on France’s Offshore Wind Development from last year:
From 400 MW to 40 GW: Lessons learnt so far from France’s Offshore Wind Development
