Alstom starts building Haliade plants

The Haliade undergoing testing

Alstom has broken ground at two factories for its 6MW Haliade 150 offshore wind turbine, representing the first new plants the industrial giant has built in France in more than three decades.

The factories, slated to turn out nacelles and generators for 100 turbines a year at peak production, are set side by side on a 14-hectare plot of land located in Montoir-de-Bretagne, within the harbour zone of Saint-Nazaire, at the mouth of the Loire River.

From 2014 they will take over production from a temporary “workshop” in Saint-Nazaire, where Alstom has been producing early versions of the turbine – the first of which just began “final testing” prior to certification at an onshore site at the upriver Le Carnet site.

A second, “just completed”…

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