Day 1 Timings

Morven

bp and EnBW have been awarded a lease option off the east coast of Scotland to develop a major offshore wind project — to be known as Morven. The award was made in the highly competitive ScotWind leasing round.

The approximately 860km2 lease is located around 60km off the coast of Aberdeen. The E1 lease is in an advantaged area, allowing the partners to develop it as a fixed-bottom offshore wind project with a total generating capacity of around 2.9 gigawatts (GW), sufficient to power more than three million homes.

As a result of the successful ScotWind bid, the partners will establish their operational centre in Scotland, and bp will make Aberdeen its global operations and maintenance centre of excellence for offshore wind, creating up to 120 new direct jobs.  It is expected to contribute up to £40 million per year to the economy.

The offshore wind development will include investments in infrastructure, ports, harbours and shipyards, including the construction of four ships to support EnBW and bp’s offshore wind projects across the UK, subject to technical and commercial due diligence. These new-builds will involve an investment of more than £100m and would be expected to support 500 associated jobs. It also triggers additional investment in Forth Ports, who are creating Scotland’s largest renewable hub at the Port of Leith, supporting up to 3,000 direct and indirect jobs in the Forth Estuary net zero corridor.

Mona and Morgan

bp and EnBW are jointly developing the Morgan and Mona offshore wind developments in the Irish Sea. When complete, Morgan and Mona will have a combined potential generating capacity of 3GW, sufficient to power the equivalent of approximately 3.4 million UK households with clean electricity. They are approximately 300km² and 500km² in size respectively, are located approximately 30km from the coast, and in average water depths of around 35m.

This marked bp’s entry into the UK’s offshore wind power sector, currently the largest in the world, and was further progress towards bp rapidly building a world-class wind energy business. EnBW currently has onshore wind assets in Germany, France and Sweden and operates four offshore wind assets in the German Baltic Sea and North Sea.  

Floventis Energy is a joint venture between SBM Offshore, specialists in floating offshore energy, and the renewable energy project development company Cierco.  With a portfolio of projects in the UK and USA, Floventis is at the forefront of the global transition to large scale green power generation from floating offshore wind.  Our Llŷr projects, off the coast of Pembrokeshire will unlock the opportunity for floating offshore wind in the Celtic Sea with two test and demonstration array.  The Floventis team is pioneering different full scale floating offshore wind technology solutions with the aim of delivering 20% of the 1GW UK Government target for floating wind before 2030, setting a new standard for cost reduction pathways for large scale floating offshore wind developments in the UK

Thistle Wind Partners (TWP) was founded in 2020 by DEME Concessions, Qair and Aspiravi and is dedicated to developing offshore wind farms in Scotland. Operating from offices in Edinburgh, TWP is developing two pioneering projects after successfully securing rights to almost 400km2 of seabed under the ScotWind leasing round in 2022. Currently in development are the Ayre Offshore Wind Farm, a 1GW floating-foundation project located 33km to the east of Orkney, and the Bowdun Offshore Wind Farm, a 1GW fixed-foundation project lying 44km off the coast of Aberdeenshire. TWP is committed to developing a local supply chain in Scotland and contributing to a ScotWind legacy of large-scale renewables build-out in Scotland. In developing its two offshore wind sites, TWP will take a technology-neutral approach to procurement, considering offerings from market entrants and SMEs.