JC Mont‑Fort has divested two fully‑operational French wind projects—Artigues‑Ollières in Provence‑Alpes‑Côte d’Azur (48 MW) and Luplanté in Centre‑Val de Loire (12 MW)—to Irish renewables investor NTR and Belgian fund TTR Energy respectively.
Artigues‑Ollières: bridging the green‑power gap in PACA
Developed by Eco Delta (Provencialis) since 2006, the 22‑turbine Artigues‑Ollières facility supplies 110 GWh a year, equal to the electricity demand of the entire Toulon metropolitan area. It represents half of all wind capacity installed in the PACA region and has injected €75 million into the local economy:
- 50,000 h of construction labour—80 % sourced from regional firms
- 10 permanent technical jobs in operations & maintenance
- €500 k in annual local taxes and €450 k earmarked for environmental offsets and community projects
Eco Delta’s avoidance, reduction and compensation programme continues under the new owner, ensuring minimal impact on ecosystems while helping the Var and Alpes‑Maritimes departments close their renewable‑energy deficit.
Luplanté: low‑impact generation in Eure‑et‑Loir
The 5‑turbine “Moisson de Beauce” park features Vestas V110 machines (11 MW net). Built by Omexom RE Wind (VINCI Energies), it entered service in late‑2020 after the installation of foundations, 20 kV substations and inter‑turbine cabling. Post‑commissioning wildlife surveys recorded just 1–2 bird fatalities per turbine and no bat mortality, confirming the site’s low ecological footprint.
Strategic rationale
The sale allows JC Mont‑Fort to recycle capital into its next development wave while entrusting the assets to long‑term infrastructure specialists. For NTR and TTR Energy, the acquisition expands their French operating portfolios with de‑risked projects benefiting from stable feed‑in tariffs and strong regional support.
“These transactions underscore investor appetite for mature French wind assets and validate the quality of Eco Delta’s development pipeline,” JC Mont‑Fort said in a statement.
| Metric | Artigues‑Ollières | Luplanté |
|---|---|---|
| Capacity | 48 MW (22 × 2.2 MW) | 12 MW (5 × V110) |
| Annual output | 110 GWh | 25 GWh |
| Households supplied* | 65 000 | 17 000 |
| Local jobs | 10 O&M | 3 O&M |
| New owners | NTR | TTR Energy |
Artigues Olliéres:
In a region with a strong deficit in green electricity production, we are talking in particular about the eastern part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region and more specifically the departments of Var and Alpes-Maritimes, the wind farm located in the municipalities of Artigues and Ollières, responds to a real need.
A need for green energy on the one hand, in terms of the local economy as well, in a particularly gloomy employment pool but also, and this is a major issue, from an environmental point of view.
As such, the Artigues-Ollières wind project developed by Eco Delta (Provencialis) since the end of 2006 is quite exemplary. It has since been actively supported by all successive governments.
110 GWH PRODUCED IN ONE YEAR IS THE CONSUMPTION OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE TOULONNE AGGLOMERATION.
The park, by producing green energy, constitutes almost all of the region’s wind power.22 wind turbines produce 48 MW 110 GWh in one year.
Out of 4,000 wind turbines located in France, 46 are based in the PACA region. Artigues-Ollières Park has half of it.
The Artigues-Ollières project helps to catch up with the region in the field of wind energy.
KEY Points :
- 10 qualifying positions created
Locally for maintenance (electrical technician, mechanic, computer scientist, video surveillance operator).
- 50,000 hours of work
For the implementation of the construction site, 80% of which is carried out by local companies (civil engineering, electricity, green space, handling, safety).
- 75 million Euros investment
Including €1,090,500 of local benefits related to the treatment of the project’s impact on ecosystems.
€500,000 redistributed annually in taxation.
Nearly €450,000.00 donated locally per year in measures to treat and support impacts.
Since the design of the Artigues and Ollières park, Eco Delta has taken many measures and created solutions to minimize the impacts of the wind project on existing ecosystems. These avoidance, reduction and compensation measures have as their permanent objective the respect of the territories and the optimization of the insertion of the project in the landscape.
Luplanté:
Luplanté is a wind farm project of 12 MW developed by Eco Delta in Centre Val de Loire region.
The Luplanté wind project, located in Eure-et-Loir, France, is known as “Moisson de Beauce”. This wind farm includes five Vestas V110/2200 wind turbines, each with a power of 2,200 kW and a rotor diameter of 110 meters, totaling a nominal power of 11,000 kW.
The infrastructure work, entrusted to Omexom RE Wind (VINCI Energies International & Systems), included the construction of foundations, inter-wind networks and the installation of two 20 kV delivery stations. The commissioning of the park was scheduled for the end of 2020. VINCI
A post-implantation monitoring carried out between May and October 2021 estimated a mortality of 1 to 2 birds per wind turbine throughout the park, without detection of mortality in bats
Now Artigues Olliéres and Luplanté has been sold to Irish and Belgium funds, NTR and TTR respectively.
