Development
The Crown Estate intends to launch a competitive tender process in July 2026 to bring the Morgan offshore wind site back to market, with a view to awarding it to a developer in late 2026.
The site, with the potential for up to 1.5 GW in the Irish Sea, was brought to market through Offshore Wind Leasing Round 4 in 2021 but development was discontinued in January 2026 by the joint venture between EnBW and JERA Nex BP, which held the lease rights..
Since then, The Crown Estate has reviewed several options to return the site to market and enable the potential it has to provide up to 1.5 million homes with clean, homegrown energy and create thousands of jobs.
Morgan secured a Development Consent Order (DCO) for its wind farm asset in August 2025 and is awaiting a decision on the DCO application for its transmission assets, a joint application with the transmission assets of the 480 MW Morecambe offshore wind farm, now expected in September 2026.
The site currently has a grid connection agreement with the National Energy System Operator (NESO).
This tender process is separate to Leasing Round 6, which The Crown Estate has previously announced its intention to launch in 1H27, and is not expected to impact on that programme’s timelines.
