Ship&Offshore | Ausgabe 02/2024
Bourbon kicks off pilot wind farm in France
Specialist teams from Bourbon Subsea Services have installed a Floating Electrical Hub (FEH) at a pilot floating wind farm, Eolmed, sited off Gruissan in the Mediterranean Sea. The FEH, seen as a ‘foundation stone’ for the project, is a structure that will be connected to three wind turbines at sea and by a cable to the shore. The turbines are expected to produce more than 110 million kilowatt-hours when they start to operate in 2025, equivalent to the electricity requirements of about 50,000 people....