Atos to support Ailes Marines in securing Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm in Brittany, France

Guaranteeing the protected production of renewable vitality

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Paris, December one, 2020,

A consortium led by Atos has been selected by Ailes Marines – a enterprise a hundred% owned by Iberdrola, in charge of the construction, installation and operation of an offshore wind farm in the Bay of Saint-Brieuc, France – to employ mission essential communications answers and guarantee maritime coordination functions for its new wind farm project. With construction do the job on the farm established to start off in the first semester of 2021, Atos will guarantee that all functions at sea are operate seamlessly, in buy to assistance Iberdrola provide clean up, responsible vitality for the natural environment.

Atos will employ a total operational maritime coordination heart situated in Pleudaniel (Brittany, France) to coordinate, keep an eye on and doc all site visitors in and all over the construction location, working 24/seven through the construction stage. When constructing and controlling a wind farm of 103 km^two is a really sophisticated method wherever several operators and businesses are circulating in the offshore internet site, the Atos solution permits Ailes Marines to guarantee that all of its on-internet site functions operate easily and that only authorized folks and gear flow into in the location. This heart will notably permit Ailes Marines’ teams to register and track vessels and their crew in serious time for final on-internet site stability, to guarantee basic safety of the offshore functions in the farm (such as a ‘Permit to work’ method) or to prepare and keep an eye on offshore functions in accordance to the weather conditions forecast. For this coordination heart, Atos will do the job in partnership with SeaRenergy, a top supplier of engineering expert services as very well as offshore maritime, QHSE and staffing answers for the offshore wind market. In this project SeaRenergy will supply very qualified maritime management personnel.

Atos will also established up a unified essential voice communication system that will make it possible for helicopters, ships, and operational teams operating on the offshore farm to connect seamlessly concerning them or with the coordination heart, in and all over the wind farm[one]. In a unpredictable natural environment, sixteen,3 km away from the shore, wherever the typical telecom networks do not do the job, the Atos solution is created in this sort of a way that communication concerning operators is confirmed in all conditions, utilizing satellite telephones as back up, and can be used to control incidents and emergencies.

Both methods will continue to be operational just after the construction stage and will assistance Ailes Marines through the exploitation stage, when the 62 turbines will be operational.

“Extreme environments simply call for particularly responsible communication answers and we were looking for a French specialist to aid coordinate and safe our first offshore wind farm in France. The expertise of the Atos teams, their know-how of offshore and the really distinct digital and OT systems related with this location are really beneficial to us.” reported Javier Garcia Perez, President of Ailes Marines and Intercontinental Offshore Director of Iberdrola.

“We are proud to assistance Iberdrola in its first offshore wind farm project in France, by securing its wind turbines to guarantee the protected production of inexperienced energy. Atos aims to pioneer in decarbonization for the gain of all its stakeholders and we are eager to assistance purchasers in their sustainable jobs.” reported Bernard Payer, Head of Vital Communication Solutions, Atos. “Offshore wind farms are massive and essential infrastructures in remote and risky places. Setting up on our profitable partnership with Ørsted, and now on our romantic relationship with Iberdrola, Atos is more than ever a chief in essential communications for offshore wind vitality.”

“We are delighted to assistance Iberdrola becoming just one of the first movers in the French offshore wind market place,” reported Dr. Benjamin Vordemfelde, CEO of SeaRenergy. “We are looking ahead to contributing our expertise and specialist know-how from other jobs in Europe to the vitality changeover in France and also make fascinating new positions for the nearby workforce in the Saint-Brieuc location.”

The Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm will be created by Ailes Marines – completely owned by Iberdrola, the most significant vitality team in Spain and entire world chief in wind power – in the bay of Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, sixteen.3 kilometers off the coast. When finished, the 496 MW wind farm will produce one,820 GWh per yr, which is equivalent to the annual energy intake of 835,000 inhabitants. The foundation installation is effective will get started in the first semester of 2021 the wind farm will be completely operational in 2023. The agreement with Atos and SeaRenergy will end result in the development of ten experienced positions in France. Atos will also mobilize approximately ten folks for the installation stage of the technical gear.

Atos is a international chief in essential communications for windfarms and provides mission-essential communications for Ørsted offshore wind farms across the entire world.

In June 2020, Atos introduced its determination to realize net-zero carbon emissions by 2035, growing its ambitions on decarbonization even further more, positioning decarbonization as a main element of its advancement tactic and the enterprise as the decarbonization chief in its market.

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[one] The method will supply communications through the port location, transit routes and construction location up to 12 nautical miles offshore

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