Golfe du Lion Est is a ~1.1 GW floating (flottant) offshore wind zone on France's Méditerranée façade, designated by the 17 October 2024 ministerial decision following the « la mer en débat » national public debate. It forms part of France's eleventh offshore wind tender (AO11), whose attribution...
The French ministerial decision of 17 October 2024 ("Décision du 17 octobre 2024 consécutive au débat public « la mer en débat »") designates priority zones for the offshore wind second competitive bidding round (AO11), targeting operationality around 2040. For the AO11 floating tranche (~2.3 GW total) the second competition designates two zones in Article 3(III)(2°): Golfe de Gascogne Nord (GGN, ~1.2 GW, Sud-Atlantique façade) and Golfe du Lion Est (GLE, ~1.1 GW, Méditerranée façade). These zones are the floating-wind component of the ~6.3 GW AO11 round, which together with the fixed-bottom cohort (Roches-Douvres, Bretagne Nord-Est) supports France's PPE3 trajectory of 26 GW of offshore wind in service by 2040, of which around 6 GW is targeted as floating.
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GLE, AO11 Golfe du Lion Est