France’s
first
offshore
tender,
concluded
last
spring,
mandated
that
the
first
four
projects
(totalling
1.93GW)
must
be
generating
at
least
20%
of
their
total
capacity
by
2018,
with
the
full
amount
on
line
by
2020.
However,
late
last
year
grid
operator
RTE
admitted
that
it
would
be
unlikely
to
have
export
cables
in
place
at
those
projects
until
2019
at
the
earliest.
Renaud
Chevallaz
Perrier,
technical
director
of
EOLE-RES,
concedes
that
“we
still
have
a
problem
there”.
EOLE-RES,
part
of
the
UK-based
RES
Group,
was
awarded
the
500MW
Saint-Brieuc
offshore…
