Montréal: Boralex Inc. announced September 26 that its two projects submitted in June in the onshore wind power request for proposals in France have been selected. As in the first round of the RFP, the aggregate capacity that could have been awarded amounted to 500 MW; the aggregate volume of winning bids in this round amounted to only 118 MW.
"With the 49.5 MW awarded in the second round of the wind power RFP, Boralex confirms its position as France's largest independent producer of wind power," said Patrick Decostre, Vice-President and General Manager, Boralex Europe. "This is a great victory for our teams, and I congratulate them wholeheartedly."
In addition to the 14 MW Santerre wind power project in the French department of the Somme, Boralex has been awarded the 35 MW repowering of the Cham Longe wind farm in the department of the Ardèche. This will entail the technical challenge of doubling the installed capacity of this wind farm while maintaining the same number of wind turbines.