At the beginning of August, the European Commission authorised a 20-year French scheme in the amount of €11 billion to support the development of offshore wind energy, in accordance with the ‘CISAF’ state aid scheme for the development of clean technologies (see EUROPE B13667A26).
The measure will support the construction and operation of three floating offshore wind farms, one off the coast of Brittany and the other two in the Mediterranean. Each wind farm is expected to have a...