Morgan Offshore was a proposed Round 4 offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea, planned at roughly 1,500 MW and sited about 37 km from the North West coast of England adjacent to the Isle of Man. Developed through a joint-venture SPV, the project was conceived to deliver large-scale renewable capacit...
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EnBW and JERA Nex bp announced they have decided not to proceed with the Agreement for Lease for the 1.5 GW Morgan offshore wind project, following failure to secure a CfD in the UK AR7 allocation round and adverse market conditions. The neighbouring Morecambe generation project continues under new sole owner Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), but the joint Morgan and Morecambe Transmission Assets DCO — designed to serve both wind farms with up to 6 export cables (4 Morgan + 2 Morecambe) — is now oversized. The TA DCO decision remains pending. The Crown Estate is working with the developers to assess implications and will update the market on next steps for the Morgan seabed lease.
In January 2026, following EnBW’s decision to withdraw after Morgan and Mona failed to secure a Contract for Difference in Allocation Round 7, JERA Nex bp and EnBW decided not to proceed with the 1.5 GW Morgan offshore wind project or its Agreement for Lease, and The Crown Estate began working with the developers on handing back the Morgan site and reviewing future options.
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On 15 January 2026, EnBW announced it was withdrawing from the Morgan and Mona projects after the joint venture failed to secure Contracts for Difference (CfDs) in the UK’s seventh allocation round, meaning Morgan did not obtain the anticipated CfD revenue support.
The Fugro Synergy geotechnical campaign at the Morgan and Mona offshore wind sites was estimated to be completed by 10 September 2025, concluding the planned offshore borehole, sampling and coring works across the array areas.
On 29 August 2025, the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero granted development consent for the 1.5 GW Morgan Offshore Wind Project Generation Assets, with the Morgan Offshore Wind Project Generation Assets Order 2025 made on the same date and coming into force on 22 September 2025, legally authorising construction and operation of the offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea.
By 31 July 2025, bp and JERA Nex Limited had agreed to provide a US$5.8 billion equity commitment for offshore wind investments across various jurisdictions, explicitly including the Mona and Morgan Offshore Wind Projects, by contributing interests in their offshore wind businesses into the JERA Nex bp joint venture.
Fugro’s additional offshore geotechnical survey at the Morgan and Mona sites using the geotechnical drilling vessel Fugro Synergy was scheduled to start on or around 2 June 2025, according to a project Notice to Mariners cited by OffshoreWIND.biz.
A Notice to Mariners (referenced by OffshoreWIND.biz) stated that a geotechnical survey within the Morgan and Mona array sites, to be performed by Gardline’s Horizon Geodrill, would start later in March 2025 and run until 30 September 2025. This supports geotechnical survey commencement in March 2025 (no specific day provided).
On 24 April 2024, Morgan Offshore Wind Limited submitted an application for a Development Consent Order for the Morgan Offshore Wind Project Generation Assets to the Planning Inspectorate, seeking consent under the Planning Act 2008 for a 1,500 MW offshore wind farm of up to 96 turbines in the Irish Sea.
In September 2023, Morgan Offshore Wind Limited circulated an electronic newsletter to prescribed consultees under section 42 and selected key stakeholders for the Morgan Generation Assets, providing project updates and directing them to further information online as part of pre-application consultation ahead of a wider public announcement.
Kent was awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by bp and EnBW for the Morgan Offshore Wind Project: Generation Assets (together with the Mona project), covering FEED and an option for detailed design of jacket foundations for 17–24 MW wind turbines in approximately 35 m water depth in the Irish Sea. The six‑month FEED programme will develop foundation designs, support foundation selection, demonstrate technical feasibility, and provide a robust basis for managing project risk and engaging fabrication and transport-and-installation contractors ahead of later project phases.
An Agreement for Lease for the Morgan offshore wind project area was entered into between Morgan Offshore Wind Limited and The Crown Estate as part of Offshore Wind Leasing Round 4, formally securing seabed rights for the Morgan Agreement for Lease Area used as the initial project boundary for assessment and consultation.
In 2022, the joint venture developing the Morgan offshore wind project received an electricity generation licence for the project, alongside a licence for the adjacent 1.5 GW Mona offshore wind farm, enabling them to generate electricity from these Round 4 sites in the Irish Sea.
The 2022 Fugro geotechnical investigation campaign for Morgan/Mona extended beyond the originally planned September end-date. The Morgan & Morecambe Transmission Assets Environmental Statement notes Fugro fieldwork aboard MV Fugro Synergy ran from 10 June 2022 to 7 October 2022 (with MV Normand Mermaid work from 19 June 2022 to 23 July 2022).
In July 2022, the UK Government’s Pathway to 2030 Holistic Network Design (HND) scoped the Morgan Offshore Wind Project in as a Pathway to 2030 project and concluded, through system-wide network planning, that Morgan and the Morecambe Offshore Windfarm should work collaboratively to connect to the National Grid at Penwortham in Lancashire.
Geotechnical fieldwork for Morgan/Mona began in June 2022. The Morgan & Morecambe Transmission Assets Environmental Statement (Marine archaeology technical report) states Fugro carried out work from 10 June 2022 aboard the MV Fugro Synergy (with additional work aboard MV Normand Mermaid from 19 June 2022).
In the 2021 UK Round 4 offshore wind leasing exercise, the 3 GW Mona and Morgan complex was acquired for a record high option fee of over £231 million per 1.5 GW plot, committing the developers to pay substantial annual option fees for Morgan’s seabed rights.
Morgan Offshore Wind Limited (Morgan OWL), a joint venture between bp Alternative Energy Investments Ltd. and Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW), is identified as the developer of the Morgan Offshore Wind Project and acts as a co-applicant for the Morgan and Morecambe Offshore Wind Farms: Transmission Assets, which provide the shared export and grid connection infrastructure to National Grid’s Penwortham substation.
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