The UK’s Crown Estate, the public corporation of the British government responsible for the management of land and property, has signed lease agreements for six offshore wind projects located around the coastlines of England and Wales and which amount to 8 GW in wind capacity. The Agreements for Lease, tendered under the UK’s Round 4 seabed auction, will allow developers to submit development consent orders to the British government.
Successful applicants include Germany’s RWE with the 1.5 GW Dogger Bank South West and 1.5 GW Dogger Bank South East sites off Yorkshire, Green Investment Group and TotalEnergies’ 1.5 GW Outer Dowsing east of the Humber Estuary, BP and EnBW’s 1.5 GW Mona and 1.5 GW Morgan projects off the coast of North Wales and Cumbria respectively, and Cobra and Flotation Energy’s 480 MW Morecambe wind park off Lancashire.
As of end-2021, offshore wind represented nearly 13% of the UK’s installed capacity with 12.7 GW and 12% of its power generation with 35.5 TWh. The UK plans to reach 50 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030.
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