{"id":28527,"date":"2026-06-01T07:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/28527\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T07:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:58:14","slug":"totalenergies-applies-for-authorisation-for-frances-largest-owf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/28527\/","title":{"rendered":"TotalEnergies applies for authorisation for France&#8217;s largest OWF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wind Energy<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eight months after the Government of French Polynesia awarded it the project, TotalEnergies, through its wholly-owned project company Centre Manche Energies, has officially submitted the Single Authorisation application for the wind farm.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/total.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58872\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This development is a significant step in France\u2019s offshore wind pipeline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Location: approximately 40 km off the coast of Normandy, France<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Capacity: 1.5 GW, with an expected annual output of around 6 TWh<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Estimated investment: \u20ac4.5 billion ($5.2 billion)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Enough electricity is expected to be generated to power more than one million French homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Construction employment: up to 2,500 jobs during the three-year build phase<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Supply chain focus: TotalEnergies intends to prioritise European suppliers, particularly for wind turbines and electric cables.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Application scope: includes technical and environmental surveys, preliminary design and a planned installation programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Next steps: the permitting process and a government review of the submitted assessment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This project reflects the EU\u2019s broader push to increase domestic offshore wind capacity while safeguarding the local clean energy supply chain from international competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wind Energy Eight months after the Government of French Polynesia awarded it the project, TotalEnergies, through its wholly-owned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12699],"tags":[1816,5,9933,5726],"class_list":["post-28527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-totalenergies","tag-eu","tag-france","tag-normandy","tag-totalenergies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}