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

Making certain the risk-free production of renewable vitality

.

Paris, December one, 2020,

A consortium led by Atos has been picked by Ailes Marines – a firm 100% owned by Iberdrola, in cost of the construction, set up and operation of an offshore wind farm in the Bay of Saint-Brieuc, France – to put into action mission essential communications alternatives and ensure maritime coordination activities for its new wind farm task. With construction work on the farm set to get started in the 1st semester of 2021, Atos will ensure that all activities at sea are operate seamlessly, in buy to support Iberdrola provide clean, trustworthy vitality for the atmosphere.

Atos will put into action a complete operational maritime coordination heart positioned in Pleudaniel (Brittany, France) to coordinate, keep track of and doc all traffic in and about the construction location, running 24/seven throughout the construction phase. When creating and controlling a wind farm of 103 km2 is a quite complicated method exactly where quite a few operators and businesses are circulating in the offshore web-site, the Atos option enables Ailes Marines to ensure that all of its on-web-site operations operate smoothly and that only authorized men and women and products flow into in the location. This heart will notably empower Ailes Marines’ teams to sign-up and observe vessels and their crew in true time for best on-web-site stability, to ensure security of the offshore operations in the farm (including a ‘Permit to work’ procedure) or to plan and keep track of offshore activities according to the weather conditions forecast. For this coordination heart, Atos will work in partnership with SeaRenergy, a top supplier of engineering services as properly as offshore maritime, QHSE and staffing alternatives for the offshore wind industry. In this task SeaRenergy will provide extremely experienced maritime management staff.

Atos will also set up a unified essential voice communication platform that will make it possible for helicopters, ships, and operational teams operating on the offshore farm to communicate seamlessly among them or with the coordination heart, in and about the wind farm[one]. In a unpredictable atmosphere, 16,3 km absent from the shore, exactly where the regular telecom networks do not work, the Atos option is designed in these a way that communication among operators is certain in all problems, utilizing satellite telephones as back up, and can be employed to handle incidents and emergencies.

The two systems will continue to be operational soon after the construction phase and will support Ailes Marines during the exploitation phase, when the 62 turbines will be operational.

“Extreme environments get in touch with for very trustworthy communication alternatives and we ended up searching for a French expert to assist coordinate and protected our 1st offshore wind farm in France. The practical experience of the Atos teams, their information of offshore and the quite distinct electronic and OT technologies linked with this location are quite useful to us.” claimed Javier Garcia Perez, President of Ailes Marines and Worldwide Offshore Director of Iberdrola.

“We are proud to support Iberdrola in its 1st offshore wind farm task in France, by securing its wind turbines to ensure the risk-free production of eco-friendly energy. Atos aims to pioneer in decarbonization for the reward of all its stakeholders and we are keen to support purchasers in their sustainable tasks.” claimed Bernard Payer, Head of Important Interaction Methods, Atos. “Offshore wind farms are big and essential infrastructures in distant and unsafe areas. Developing on our prosperous partnership with Ørsted, and now on our connection with Iberdrola, Atos is more than at any time a chief in essential communications for offshore wind vitality.”

“We are delighted to support Iberdrola being 1 of the 1st movers in the French offshore wind sector,” claimed Dr. Benjamin Vordemfelde, CEO of SeaRenergy. “We are searching forward to contributing our practical experience and specialist knowledge from other tasks in Europe to the vitality transition in France and also make fascinating new work opportunities for the regional workforce in the Saint-Brieuc location.”

The Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm will be crafted by Ailes Marines – thoroughly owned by Iberdrola, the greatest vitality team in Spain and entire world chief in wind electricity – in the bay of Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, 16.3 kilometers off the coast. When finished, the 496 MW wind farm will develop one,820 GWh per year, which is equivalent to the yearly energy usage of 835,000 inhabitants. The foundation set up performs will start off in the 1st semester of 2021 the wind farm will be thoroughly operational in 2023. The agreement with Atos and SeaRenergy will result in the development of ten experienced work opportunities in France. Atos will also mobilize around ten men and women for the set up phase of the specialized products.

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

In June 2020, Atos declared its motivation to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2035, increasing its ambitions on decarbonization even more, positioning decarbonization as a core ingredient of its progress tactic and the firm as the decarbonization chief in its industry.

 

***

[one] The procedure will provide communications during the port location, transit routes and construction location up to twelve nautical miles offshore

About Atos:
Atos is a world chief in electronic transformation with 110,000 staff members in seventy three international locations and yearly revenue of € twelve billion. European amount 1 in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Significant-Efficiency Computing, the Team offers stop-to-stop Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Huge Details, Enterprise Applications and Digital Workplace alternatives. In the British isles & Eire Atos delivers small business technology alternatives for some of the country’s greatest community and personal sector organisations The Team is the Throughout the world Details Technological know-how Partner for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and operates under the manufacturers Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), stated on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

The reason of Atos is to assist structure the future of the info space. Its knowledge and services support the enhancement of information, education and learning and analysis in a multicultural technique and lead to the enhancement of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the entire world, the Team enables its clients and staff members, and members of societies at big to reside, work and establish sustainably, in a risk-free and protected info space.

Atos Press contact:
Lucie Duchateau | [email protected] | +33 seven 62 85 35 ten

About SeaRenergy:
SeaRenergy team is an unbiased supplier of complete services to all offshore wind industry stakeholders. The team is composed of SeaRenergy offshore with offices in Hamburg, Den Haag and Limassol and its daughter firms Con4Mare and Elbe-one. SeaRenergy is involved in the full value chain of offshore wind from planning and permit by means of set up and operation & servicing. Started in 2010, SeaRenergy gives consulting and engineering services as properly as offshore maritime services, QHSE services, and the complete vary of offshore pros.

SeaRenergy Press Contact:
SeaRenergy Offshore Holding GmbH & Cie. KG

Natalia Kress – [email protected] – +49 40 808 172 100