{"id":2309,"date":"2023-04-21T10:48:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T08:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eolmed.qair.energy\/eolmed-construction-begins-on-the-floating-wind-turbine-project-in-port-la-nouvelle-france\/"},"modified":"2023-12-04T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T13:55:00","slug":"eolmed-construction-begins-on-the-floating-wind-turbine-project-in-port-la-nouvelle-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eolmed.qair.energy\/en\/eolmed-construction-begins-on-the-floating-wind-turbine-project-in-port-la-nouvelle-france\/","title":{"rendered":"EOLMED: CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ON THE FLOATING WIND TURBINE PROJECT IN PORT-LA NOUVELLE, FRANCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> Port \u2013 La Nouvelle, April 21, 2023<\/strong> &#8211; Eolmed is delighted to announce that it has opened a construction site to build its floating offshore wind turbines at Port \u2013 La Nouvelle. This made-in-Occitanie project for a 30MW floating wind farm off the coast of Gruissan and Port \u2013 La Nouvelle marks the first milestone in deploying a French offshore industry \u2013 and starting commercial tenders in the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p>In front of nearly 200 people, including local and national elected representatives, project partners and socio-economic stakeholders, the Port \u2013 La Nouvelle construction site was opened by:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jean-Michel Alvarez, Vice-Chairman, Grand Narbonne Communaut\u00e9 d&#8217;agglom\u00e9ration<\/li>\n<li>Didier Codorniou, 1st Vice-President, Occitanie Region<\/li>\n<li>Jean Marc Bouchet, Founder Qair and Chairman Eolmed<\/li>\n<li>Philippe Mati\u00e8re, President, Archimed<\/li>\n<li>Thierry Bonnier, Prefect, Aude<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qair.energy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_4976-scaled-e1682089382613-1200x636.jpeg\" alt=\"lancement eolmed\" width=\"783\" height=\"415\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The speeches concluded with a traditional coin ceremony, during which each of the speakers slipped a coin engraved with the Occitan cross into a specially design recipient. In shipyards, it was customary to place gold coins under the mast of ships to bring good luck to the shipyard, crew and passengers. This custom has withstood the test of time and remains to this day. The recipient for the coins was then welded to the bottom of float No. 1.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qair.energy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Sans-titre-4-1200x600.png\" alt=\"c\u00e9r\u00e9monie des pi\u00e8ces eolmed\" width=\"874\" height=\"437\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>CREATING LOCAL JOBS<\/h4>\n<p>The arrival of the first steel blocks for the floating structures marks the first step in this ambitious project to build three floating wind turbines in the port of Port \u2013 La Nouvelle. They will take around 18 months to build and require 250,000 workhours \u2013 of which 150,000 will be spent welding in the port.<\/p>\n<p>Manufactured in Bagnac sur C\u00e9l\u00e9 (Lot) by Archimed, formed following the merger of French companies Mati\u00e8re and Ponticelli, these blocks will be welded together in Port \u2013 La Nouvelle, like a giant construction set.<\/p>\n<p>As well as promoting the energy transition, the Eolmed project is part of an ambitious regional strategy aimed at creating sustainable local jobs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>&#8220;The Eolmed project is a major step forward for the renewable energies sector in France, and particularly for the Occitanie region. It has a key role to play in the drive to create an offshore industry in France and is positioned as a benchmark project for commercial tenders in the Mediterranean,&#8221;<\/em> <strong>highlights Laurent Vergnet, Managing Director, Eolmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>&#8220;Combining local development, energy sovereignty and national reindustrialization, this project was imagined fifteen years ago. Now we&#8217;re ready to assemble the floating wind turbines here in Port \u2013 La Nouvelle, built in France, in Occitanie,&#8221;<\/em> <strong>declares Jean Marc Bouchet, Chairman, Eolmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qair.energy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Banderole-eolmed-partenaires-v20230413-light-1200x960.png\" alt=\"acteurs eolmed \"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port \u2013 La Nouvelle, April 21, 2023 &#8211; Eolmed is delighted to announce that it has opened a construction site to build its floating offshore wind turbines at Port \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eolmed.qair.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eolmed.qair.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eolmed.qair.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eolmed.qair.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eolmed.qair.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eolmed.qair.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377,"href":"https:\/\/eolmed.qair.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions\/2377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eolmed.qair.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eolmed.qair.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eolmed.qair.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eolmed.qair.energy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}