EDS, part of James Fisher Renewables, has been awarded a contract to deliver the high voltage safety management commissioning phase at Ailes Marines – Iberdrola’s Saint-Brieuc Offshore Wind Farm in Brittany, northern France.
EDS will be responsible for managing all aspects of high voltage safety throughout construction of the wind farm, including overseeing electrical safety for all contractors visiting the site. In addition to EDS’s own team, local personnel will be brought in to assist with the control function on the project. Saint-Brieuc OWF will have an installed capacity of 496MW. Commissioning work at Saint-Brieuc begins in Q4 2021 and will ramp up throughout 2022, ahead of the wind farm becoming fully operational in 2023.