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Offshore Paimpol Had Been Resting Since 2016 Two Turbines of Several Hundred Tons that No One Was Paid to Maintain

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Two massive hydro turbines immersed in 2016 off Paimpol were to embody the future of French tidal energy. After just over a year at sea, gnawed by corrosion and abandoned by their builders, they became the symbol of an industrial fiasco costing taxpayers 70 million euros. More
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Two massive hydro turbines immersed in 2016 off Paimpol were to embody the future of French tidal energy. After just over a year at sea, gnawed by corrosion and abandoned by their builders, they became the symbol of an industrial fiasco costing taxpayers 70 million euros. More

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SciencePost broke the news on Monday, July 27, 2026.
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