Saint-Nazaire Offshore Wind Farm will use Ridgeway Rockbags® for cable stabilisation and protection.
Belfast-based Ridgeway, through its European distribution partners, has secured a contract with its first French client to use Kyowa Filter Units, known as Rockbags® in the UK and Europe. Saint Nazaire is a 480MW offshore wind farm being developed in the Loire-Atlantique region of France and it is owned by EDF Renewables and EIH S.à r.l. (Enbridge Inc. et CPP Investments). It will deploy the sustainable Rockbags® for protecting and stabilising sections of the cable.
Théo POMET, Industrial Manager & Deputy Project Manager at Louis Dreyfus Travocean, responsible for installing the array cables, explains the relevance of this control method with regards to the project needs:
“The eco-friendly solution offered by Rockbags is a great advantage for our project. Made of recycled material and with a large lifespan, the products perfectly fall within the philosophy of the wind farm sector. The stocks available through Europe made this solution adaptable and with an excellent reactivity. Logistics is easy due to low weight and volume taken by the empty Rock Bags and allow to work in cooperation with local quarries which creates local employment and the use of local raw materials.”
Rolf Slomp, Offshore Installation Manager for Louis Dreyfus Travocean: “The Rockbags are ideal for stabilising our cable. Having the rocks of this size in the bags it envelops the cable and CPS nicely without having to dump a huge number of rocks. The Rockbags together with the crane, beacon and ROV give us a precision stabilisation of the cable with a minimum of materials installed on the seabed.”