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In August 2024, Réseau de Transport d’Electricité (RTE) awarded a multi‑project contract worth around €4.5 billion to a consortium of Hitachi Energy and Chantiers de l’Atlantique for the onshore converter stations and offshore HVDC platforms serving three French offshore wind farms: Centre Manche 1, Centre Manche 2, and Île d’Oléron (AO7). For the Oléron HVDC (AO7) grid connection, this contract confirms Hitachi Energy and Chantiers de l’Atlantique as the suppliers responsible for delivering the ±320 kV HVDC offshore platform and associated onshore converter station that will connect the up to 1.2 GW Oléron 1 wind farm, located more than 35 km off the island of Oléron, to the RTE transmission network.