Off Saint-Brieuc (Côtes-d’Armor), 62 wind turbines, each as high as the Montparnasse tower, and their immense blades run without making a noise while a boat 80 meters long sails, just as silently, between these giant mills to ensure optimal maintenance of the park. A tranquility that contrasts with the gigantism of these installations, deployed on an area of 75 square kilometers.
Since their commissioning a year ago, these seas giants, with a total capacity of around 500 megawatts, have produced 1,500 gigawattheures, close to the target set at 1,800 gigawattheures. The turbines, made by Siemens Gamesa, can provide electricity as soon as the wind speed is greater than 10 kilometers/ hour and less than 110 kilometers/ hour. Or a very wide range of operation. However, on several occasions already, these turbines had to stop net. Not for maintenance reasons, but because Ailes Marines, the Iberdrola sector which operates this park, had received the order to reduce its production due to the negative prices observed on the electricity market.
