National Grid
The UK Government has approved the development of transmission infrastructure to connect two offshore wind farms, Morecambe and Morgan, to the national grid.
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero granted development consent for the Morgan and Morecambe Offshore Wind Farms Transmission Assets project.
This project is set to transmit power from the 480MW Morecambe wind farm and the adjacent 1.5GW Morgan wind project off north-west England.
The approval allows for the construction of a joint system of transmission assets including offshore export cables, onshore landfall facilities, export cables running to substations and other related onshore infrastructure.
These components are designed to link the offshore sites to the National Grid substation at Penwortham.
Both projects are located in the Irish Sea, with the Morgan site situated 22.22km from the Isle of Man and 37.13km from the north-west coast of England, across an area of approximately 300 km².
