Commercial Operations Full Power

The Morven offshore wind project, a 2.9 GW fixed-bottom development located around 60 km off the coast of Aberdeen within an 860 km² lease area, is targeting the start of full commercial operations in 2030. In the EnBW–bp developer deep-dive prepared for ORE Catapult, the Morven project timeline explicitly labels 2030 as the “Expected start: Commercial Operation Date (COD)”, with the slide clearly marked that all dates are indicative. This places COD after preceding milestones such as consents and planning applications, a Contracts for Difference (CfD) auction for power offtake, commencement of construction, and first grid connection for power export and commissioning of offshore substations shown earlier on the same timeline sequence.[1] An earlier ScotWind E1–E3 joint cluster webinar deck, updated on 25 August 2022, is consistent with this schedule. It states that Morven, being jointly developed by bp and EnBW following their ScotWind lease option award, “is planned to be operational in 8 years (2030).” The same deck describes Morven’s scale and location, confirming an expected generating capacity of about 2.9 GW, sufficient to power more than three million homes, and an anticipated investment of up to £10 billion.[2] Taken together, these sources establish 2030 as the publicly communicated target year for Morven’s Commercial Operation Date, while emphasising that the timetable is indicative and dependent on grid connection and other development milestones.[1][2]