The group, which is vying with an EDF, wpd, Alstom tie-up for the rights to acreage being opened as part of France's second offshore tender, would develop 500MW in Le Tréport, in the Haute-Normandie area, and another 500MW in the vicinity of the islands of Yeu and Noirmoutier, off Pays-de-la-Loire.
"The experience of each of the consortium members in the wind power industry is great and each has been pioneering in its own way," says GDF Suez chief executive Gérard Mestrallet.
