Overview
- The Commission de régulation de l'énergie published the AO10 cahier des charges on Friday, June 12, 2026, opening a four‑month window for bids and scheduling laureate announcements for February 2027.
- AO10 targets about 10 gigawatts across seven maritime zones with roughly half fixed‑bottom turbines and half floating machines to reach deeper sites.
- The procurement fixes a weighted average price cap of 100 euros per MWh for 25 years, favors extensions of existing fields to cut grid connection costs and introduces a 'maintenance premium' to shape outage timing.
- For the first time the rules cap components sourced from China and score projects for low carbon and European industrial content, while allowing one actor to win up to six lots to boost competition after 2025 setbacks.
- The tender is meant to accelerate France’s PPE3 goals — rising from about 2 GW today to 15 GW by 2035 — and could affect local jobs, port activity, grid spending and political debates ahead of the 2027 presidential election.