The expected wind off the Normandy .

Keywords: wind power, fishermen, Act Grenelle 2, Tréport, ABbevile, DIEPPE, Compagnie du Vent, GDF Suez.

Tréport in Abbeville, the public debate in full swing on the implementation by GDF Suez's first offshore wind farm in France.

The fishermen are worried. Some elected officials are hostile. From Dieppe to Abbeville, the debate on the first project in France to "wind farm" at sea in full swing. Very formal indeed, since the National Commission for Public Debate (CNDP) has organized since May 4 until September 7 meetings in the municipalities affected by the "wind farm Two Coasts".
The project, conducted by the Company of the wind, a subsidiary of GDF Suez (56.8%), aims to install 14 kilometers off Tréport than 140 wind turbines of 5 megawatts (MW) each, an installed capacity of 700 MW. Enough to supply electricity to a population of 900,000 people at maximum power. It is here in the pharaonic wind, with an investment of 1.8 billion euros. In the context of the passage of the law Grenelle 2 that showed the vitality of those opposed to the proliferation of wind turbines in rural hexagonal, the company hopes to use wind power a more favorable for offshore wind. In an attempt to convince the limited impact of its project on the environment as a subsidiary of GDF Suez is to invite journalists in Denmark including the Normans and Picards.

Specific tax:
Because on the Normandy coast, the project inevitably raises concerns. The Wind Company, amongst others, argues that it will pay a specific tax that should generate 8 million euros per year of which half will be paid to the fishermen through the General Council of Seine-Maritime. Four times the annual turnover of the port of Tréport, according to a local journalist.
The long-term administrative authorization will continue after the obligatory public debate. Promoters of the Two Shores Park hoping to start the construction early 2012. The work, reduced in winter, will last three years, for a start-up of 140 wind turbines in 2015.
It is regulated in tariff - 13 cents per kilowatt hour guaranteed for fifteen years - which allows the operator to earn a return on the expected duration of operation, thirty years.
The target set by the Grenelle Environment is to produce 6,000 megawatts to the mills at sea in 2020. Slightly more than eight parks the size of the Two Coasts. Tenders for State of new projects are expected by professionals in the fall.