Ideally located in the Western Channel, in the North of the Biscaye Bay and close to the Celtic Sea, Brest is at the core of several dozens of Gigawatts of current and future offshore wind developments. The activities are operated by a company shared by the Brittany Region, the City and the CCI.
The port in figures: Traffic: 700 port of calls for 2.7 mT Berth: 4 300m lenght; 3 XXL dry docks (from 225m to 440m) for complex vessels (LNG..) Oil and gas import & storage for all Western Brittany Import/export of agri-food
A terminal dedicated to MRE
Brest has anticipated the growth of the Maritime Renewable Energies with the creation of a new terminal since 2013, with the support of Brittany Region and European funds. This infrastructure is made of a heavy quay of 400 meters, and an industrial area of 40 hectares near shore, mainly under operation. It is adapted for pilot farms and small commercial farms (up to 250MW)
The offshore wind future
In order to answer the upcoming floating offshore wind needs, port of Brest, together with its partner port of Lorient, has launched the InFloW program (Innovation for Floating Wind industry), focusing on:
– Heavy components import capacities
– Industrial areas reinforcement
– Heavy load float-off capacities
– Floater wet storage capacity within Brest harbour
This program aims to increase the current capacities of the port infrastructures to meet the volume and size required by the offshore wind industry. This is made possible with the funding of the French ADEME agency and the DIOL (Develop Innovative Offshore Logistics) European project.
In addition, DIOL program helps the port to implement innovative solutions, such as quay decarbonized power supply, H2 production and logistics, and photovoltaic energy production.
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Agathe Le GuillouSales manager 1 rue de Kiel – 29200 Brest – FRANCE
GreenWITS is a new company of IFPEN group funded in June 2023, leveraging IFPEN’s knowledge and expertise in offshore wind, garnered over a decade of research and innovation. Our mission is to offer advanced simulation and high-tech digital services to wind farm developers and operators, equipment suppliers (e.g. foundations).
By combining advanced simulation and data analysis in its digital offerings, we aim to make the most of data modeling and analysis techniques like machine learning to increase the value of wind farm projects and assets throughout their lifetime. Based on more than 12 years of IFPEN R&D under exclusive license, a continuous co-developing partnership, and an experienced team, we propose offers of the highest technological level. Presently 4 : Optimized wind farm design, Turbine and foundation engineering, Digital monitoring of wind farm assets, Wind farm control, which globally cover the needs of a project from the Design phase to O&M and LTE.
WIND FARM DESIGN : OptiWITS is a holistic and unique software solution designed to identify technically and economically optimized wind farm layouts. With our advanced optimization algorithms and physics-based modeling tools, we help you maximize performance while considering all specific project constraints.
DIGITAL MONITORING : Gain valuable insights into the performance and structural health of your assets with our digital monitoring solution. By combining data sciences and physics-based models, we extract key performance indicators and monitor the performance and health of your assets.
WIND FARM CONTROL : Optimize the performance of your wind farms with our collaborative control approach. Based on the wake steering concept, our control system enables significant gains in Annual Energy Production (AEP) while maintaining the integrity of your assets. It can be installed on existing and new wind farms.
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Yann LepoutreSales and Business Development Director GreenWITS Rond-Point de l’échangeur, 69360 SOLAIZE
IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) is a major research and training player in the fields of energy, transport and the environment. Thanks to cutting-edge applied research, IFPEN aims at developing technological solutions with industrial partners that can be marketed. IFPEN proposes several industrial solutions along the onshore and offshore wind value chain, which comprise: – use of lidars to improve resource assessment, including advanced wind field reconstruction techniques for floating wind, – the FarmShadow™ software to consider the wake effects in AEP evaluation, layout optimization or wind farm control, – aerodynamics models for the DeepLines Wind™ software in partnership with Principia, – the co-development of a TLP float in partnership with SBM Offshore, – Lidar assisted control solutions of wind turbines, – Control strategies at wind farm level (wake steering), – Digital Twin of wind turbines and wind farms to optimize O&M
IFPEN works with major players of the wind sector to foster the industrial application of its developments. In 2023, IFPEN launched GreenWITS, a new company delivering advanced digital and engineering services for wind energy.
FARMSHADOW™ is a fast and accurate wind, farm flow simulator which features analytical velocity deficit, wake added turbulence, blockage effect and advanced superposition models. It is coupled with optimization routines to derive wind turbine and electrical layouts of wind farms accounting for complex zoning and alignment constraints.
FAMEJIP aims at developing methodologies for floating wind AEP calculation considering the wake loss impact at both wind turbine and wind farm levels. This includes the evaluation of floater motion impact on WT power production and the improvement of wake model analysis thanks to experimentation in wind tunnel.
Wind AVATAR JIP aims at applying new methodologies to help FOW operators and OEMs to improve the O&M of their assets. The JIP focuses on the development of Digital Twin technology applied to FOWTs to enrich available data coming from the assets with physical modeling to enable the generation of KPIs of interest, as well as virtual sensors.
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Stéphane BertholinR&I Program Manager 1-4 avenue de Bois Préau – 92852 Rueil-Malmaison – France
Created in 2008, Greensolver is an independent technical advisor dedicated to wind, solar and BESS assets. Greensolver is now a leading international firm with offices all over Europe: France, UK, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Poland. With a track record of 50GW+, Greensolver is helping Investment Funds, Banks, IPPs and utilities for the energy transition.
Thanks to its expertise, Greensolver is a bankable Technical advisor proposing a wide range of services throughout the full lifecycle of renewable energy projects: 1. Technical Due diligence: financing and transactions for solar, wind and BESS assets 2. PPA Advisory: Sell side (producers) and buy side (offtakers) 3. Asset management: Technical and commercial asset management for solar, wind and BESS assets
Greensolver is certified with ISO 9001, 14001, 45001 and 55001. Those certifications illustrate Greensolver’s commitment to continuously improve and deliver services with the highest level of quality and sustainability.
TECHNICAL DUE DILIGENCE:
Investment funds, banks, IPP’s and utilities can rely on Greensolver team to support their financing or M&A project with high quality technical due diligence in wind, solar and BESS storage.
Why Greensolver is the right choice for Technical due diligence?
45GW+ track records since 2008
Multidisciplinary approach wind / solar / BESS
Best practices (ISO 9001, 14001, 45001, 55001)
PPA ADVISORY :
Both IPP (on the sell side) and off takers (on the buy side) can rely on Greensolver to structure, originate and negotiate their PPA thanks to our strong know how and network.
Why Greensolver is the right choice for PPA Advisory?
2GW+ track records
10 years’ experience team in PPA advisory
Agility and flexibility
ASSET MANAGEMENT :
Investment funds, banks, IPP’s and utilities can rely on Greensolver team to optimize the performance of their assets with dedicated asset managers applying industry best practices
Why Greensolver is the right choice for asset management?
5GW+ track records since 2008
Multidisciplinary approach solar / wind / BESS
ISO 55001 management of asset at risk
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Erwan Le MeurSales & Marketing Director 28 Boulevard Haussmann 75009 Paris
AMLP and FAST agencies, both historical structures of handling in La Rochelle-La Pallice port, merged on January 1st, 2021, under AMLP name.
With its 80-strong team’s collaboration, AMLP is a port logistics specialist who offers whole services to vessels, such as handling, shipping agency, forwarding, customs, storage and transport. Thanks to its teams’ expertise, AMLP is the leader in specialised handling for timber products (wood pulp, logs and sawn timber, etc.), solid bulk (grains, agri-food cargo, etc.), industrial products (steel coils, heavy packages, etc.), industrial bulk, containers and general cargo. Our infrastructure and technical means allow us to offer comprehensive port logistics in line with the highest standards. We operate modern terminals equipped for the handling and storage of a wide range of commodities.
We are part of the Maritime Kuhn group, a family business created in Brest in 1948. From Dunkirk to Sète, via Brest and La Rochelle, the group benefits from a network of 18 agencies spread all over the French coastline. Our nationwide presence for more than 70 years has forged our experience and our know-how.
Activity :
– Forest products (pulp, timber, logs, …)
– Metallic products (coils, sheets, slabs, …)
– Agri products (grain, fertilizers, …)
– Solid industrial bulk (cement, …)
– Non-hazardous waste (glass, scrap, …)
– Onshore/Offshore wind power components
– Nautical craft (yachts, …)
– Breakbulk and project cargo (industrial projects, oversize cargo, …)
Resources
3 terminals
11 berths, draught max 13.50m
100000sqm of warehouses, 320000sqm of storage surface
Bluesign has created and organises Seanergy, France’s international forum on Offshore Renewable Energy since 2016 and is also committed in employment issues in France through Workinblue, a resource for employment-related challenges faced by stakeholders – recruitment, training, etc. Throughout the year, Bluesign is also involved alongside industry stakeholders, providing them with guidance on their communication projects, as well as on the organization of business networking events.
Seanergy 2024
Seanergy is France’s international event on offshore renewable energy, bringing together the international community of the offshore renewable energy sector to promote all technologies and accelerate industry growth.
Seanergy 2024 will be held on June 26-28 in Nantes, Pays de la Loire – France’s leading region for offshore renewable energies.
Workinblue
Developed by Bluesign to support the development of the industry, Workinblue is the first jobboard dedicated to offshore renewable energy stakeholders. Beyond this useful tool, a number of initiatives are proposed throughout the year to provide supports to industry players for employment-related issues.
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Sabrina PeseuxCEO Emergence coworking – 24, rue du Gouverneur général Eboué – 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux – France
FMGC is a leading company dedicated in the development, design and manufacturing of mooring & anchoring solutions for floating offshore wind. Through its clump weights and gravity ballast solutions FMGC supports its customers & partners from the basic design until operational deployment. Thanks to 10 years of continuous development and improvement, the FMGC’s solutions are bringing significant optimization on the mooring lines dimensioning and its associated CAPEX.
Recognized by world leaders, FMGC has been involved in over 70% of floating offshore wind project across Europe and is already working to unlock the deployment of commercial scale floating offshore wind projects.
Clump Weight :
FMGC Clump Weights system are significantly improving the mooring system dynamic by ensuring restoring forces while improving mooring lines length and associated costs / impacts.
Key features:
Minimize the floater’s excursion zone.
Reduce the length of the mooring lines.
Designed & certified for the project’s lifetime.
Capex Optimization
Hybrid Anchoring Gravity Ballast
Made of assemblies up to hundreds of tons deployed on the top of the suction / piles anchors, FMGC Hybrid anchoring solution contribute to the standardization & optimization of the anchors by ensuring a significant size & diameter reduction. Our system brings capex reduction & contribute to answer industrialization challenges.
Gravity anchor
Highly modular and easily deployable the FMGC gravity anchors are made of high-density material. Up to hundreds of tons this solution is especially suitable to help stabilizing the dynamic cable sections.
Thanks to the modularity of cast iron, it can also be considered to anchor floating turbines in difficult & rocky seabed.
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Arthur QuartierBusiness Development Manager ZI HOCHEPIE
AKROCEAN owns and operates a fleet of modular buoys, self-powered and 365/7 supervised via an onshore control center. They are covering all the client’s data monitoring needs for: wind resource, metocean and environmental site assessment.
We provide turnkey data delivery service to support the development of offshore wind projects. We operate modular buoys deployments anywhere in the world with the support of our worldwide network of commercial and/or logistic partners. Two years ago, Akrocean opened an APAC office in Vietnam, managing many projects in the area. In 2023, an office in the United States will be expanding the company’s field of action. This development is made possible by the training of our local partners, our worldwide maintenance capacity and our fleet of buoys that can be adapted anywhere in the world.
WINDSEA
A new generation of floating LiDAR turnkey service for wind resource assessment and metocean measurements. WINDSEA is Stage 2 validated according to Carbon Trust roadmap by DNV. Our floating LiDARs have been deployed in many seas and has accumulated more than 7000 days of data reaching best industry practices.
FLY’RSEA
FLY’RSEA is the first turnkey service based on a stabilized floating bird RADAR for offshore bird monitoring.
This service is based on an innovative RADAR buoy which detect and observe constantly the avifauna. The system is also able to record bats and detect the marine fauna.
SEAOBS
SEAOBS is our modular service covering all client’s environmental monitoring needs.
It combines WINDSEA and FLY’RSEA services to provide a versatile offshore observatory for all phases of an offshore energy project.
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Maxime BELLORGEChief Operating Officer 1 route de la Croix Moriaux, 44350, Guérande, France
Sinay helps maritime corporates to conciliate business efficiency with ocean sustainability. We have developed the Sinay Hub, a unique software that gathers and analyzes maritime data with Artificial Intelligence (AI). We can plug any type of IoT sensors, data sources and even deploy data collection network at sea. We provide environmental and logistic predictions to offshore construction and supply chain stakeholders. Our software and APIs monitor: – metocean data to plan and manage the offshore operation, – environmental data such as Air, Water and Underwater noise to pevent pollution events and predict the impact on biodiversity – Logistic related data to track containers and vessels, to estimate CO2 emissions, or to predict ETA and port congestion. Using our solutions, maritime companies drastically reduce their time and cost for searching the right information and increase their operation efficiency as well as reducing their impact on ocean biodiversity. We love Ocean, Data and Business. We connect them.
Metocean Analytics by Sinay
Metocean Analytics by Sinay gathers and monitors metocean data for each phase of your offshore project.
The tool allows the estimation of offshore operations’ weather downtime to optimize operational planning. It fits perfectly with the efficiency and productivity required by each phase of offshore projects.
Underwater Acoustics
A full package for real-time underwater acoustics monitoring
Sinay tackles the noise issues and provides a large set of professional services for real-time underwater acoustics monitoring with specific equipment resources (hydrophones, deterrent devices, buoys…) and a team of experts in marine mammals and underwater acoustics (PAM certification).
Sinay Maritime APIs Directory
A Hub of APIs for Ocean Freight to Enhance Efficiency and Sustainability Whether the solution is targeted at freight forwarders, shipping lines or port-side operations, Sinay APIs can help deliver more value to the clients by resolving key market pain-points and enhance decision-making.
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Thierry DUCELLIERHead of Sales 14 rue Alfred Kastler, 14000, Caen, France