Offshore Construction Start

Morven Offshore Wind Farm, comprising the Morven North and Morven South array sites in Scottish waters off Aberdeenshire, remains in an early development phase, with environmental assessments underway and consent applications not expected to be submitted until 2026. The October 2025 public information day brochure explains that the project is still at the design and assessment stage and makes clear that, subject to the successful award of the necessary consents and licences, construction would not begin until the 2030s. This places the expected start of offshore construction firmly into the next decade, reflecting the time needed to secure approvals and complete preparatory work before any offshore installation activity can commence.[1] An earlier indicative timeline published in an EnBW/bp developer deep‑dive presentation in 2023 had shown "commence construction" alongside the expected Final Investment Decision in the late 2020s, with a target Commercial Operation Date around 2030.[3] However, the more recent 2025 consultation material from Morven Offshore Wind Limited supersedes this earlier view by signalling that construction is now estimated to begin in the 2030s, implying a material schedule extension relative to the prior plan.[1][3] Taken together, these documents indicate that offshore construction for Morven is planned but remains contingent on regulatory approvals and subsequent investment decisions, with the current best estimate being a construction start sometime during the 2030s rather than the late 2020s.[1][3]