With the launch of Deos, the Offshore Wind Turbine Development Project, the Port of Marseille-Fos aims to build and make available by 2028 the facilities required for the industrial deployment of floating offshore wind turbines, making the port a major hub for offshore wind energy. The investment amounts to €500 million.
The DEOS project involves the construction of an 80-hectare platform, with a high-capacity quay of up to 1,000 linear meters, in the heart of the Fos-sur-Mer industrial zone, as well as 40 to 50 hectares of afloat storage areas. The project will meet the needs of the national market along the Mediterranean coast, as well as those of neighboring countries, with a capacity of around 25 wind turbines per year. For floats alone, some 50 floats could be produced annually at Fos-sur-Mer by combining the capacities of a new facility on the DEOS site with those of Eiffage Métal.
The planned infrastructure would enable private operators to build steel or concrete floats, launch and store them afloat, unload and store the various wind turbine components prior to assembly on the floats, store the wind turbines afloat and, lastly, maintain and dismantle them.
"With the DEOS project, our ambition is clear: to become the reference hub in the Mediterranean for the floating wind energy sector, and to meet the future challenges of energy sovereignty. Its completion would provide further proof of our transition from an oil port to a multi-energy port. But we can't do it alone. Faced with an ambitious market, massive support is essential to accompany the necessary investments," declares Christophe Castaner, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Port of Marseille.
