France has the second largest maritime area in the world after the United States.
With sea winds blowing up to 170 km / h during storms, this is virtually untapped potential.
Only FloatGen, an experimental wind turbine near Le Croisic, is floating offshore.
It produces roughly the consumption of the 3,000 to 4,000 inhabitants of the city.
Other projects are emerging from the ground, in particular the 80 wind turbines at the Saint-Nazaire wind farm.
The fishermen's revolt
But for fishermen who will no longer have the right to navigate among wind turbines, and who fear irreversible damage to biodiversity, it is an attack on their profession.
Demonstration at sea, on land, complaints before European courts, French fishermen unite.
A happy medium
What if we managed to make these parks a shelter for biodiversity: areas without fishing where fish can come to feed and reproduce?
For Gilles Lecaillon, from the Ecocean company, offshore wind turbines and marine life can go hand in hand, a hypothesis that he is testing with BOB, the biodiversity observation buoy.
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