French consortium comprising GDF Suez SA (GSZ.FR) and
Vinci SA (DG.FR) and its industrial partner Areva SA (AREVA.FR) Monday said
that would they be the successful bidder on three offshore windfarm tenders off
Normandy, Northern France, the whole project would mobilize up to 6,000 jobs.
MAIN FACTS:
- More than 400 skilled jobs would also be created
over the 20 years of operation in the ports of Fécamp,
Dieppe
, Le Treport and
Ouistreham. The consortium is also committed to creating a sustainable
manufacturing industry that creates jobs in
Normandy
.
It has already met more than 80 local companies of the 300 identified,
particularly in the coastal areas concerned in
Normandy
and
Picardy
.
- In
Normandy
today, GDF Suez Chairman and Chief Executive Gerard Mestrallet, Vinci CEO
Xavier Huillard, CDC Infrastructure CEO Jean Bensaed and Areva CEO Luc Oursel
highlighted their energy, economic and social plan connected with the call for
bids to site 3,000 MW of wind power off
France
's
coasts starting in 2015.
-
Areva, as industrial partner of the consortium formed by GDF Suez, Vinci and
CDC Infrastructure for the three zones in Normandy - Dieppe-Le Treport, Fecamp
and Courseulles-sur-Mer - gave details of its industrial plan and, together
with Gilles Fournier, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Port of Le Havre
Authority, presented the 50-hectare site selected in the port area to host new
offshore wind turbine manufacturing plants.