Overview
- The Crown Estate will launch a competitive tender in July 2026 to re-market the 1.5 GW Morgan site and aims to appoint a new developer by late 2026.
- The lease was returned after the joint venture between EnBW and JERA Nex BP discontinued development, which in January 2026 ended their Morgan partnership and led to EnBW exiting the UK Morgan and Mona projects.
- Morgan already holds a Development Consent Order for its generation assets from August 2025 and retains a National Energy System Operator (NESO) grid connection; a decision on the jointly submitted transmission application is expected in September 2026.
- The Crown Estate will publish full tender details and site conditions in the coming weeks and says this separate process will not affect the timing of Offshore Wind Leasing Round 6, scheduled for the first half of 2027.
- The site is estimated to supply enough electricity for about 1.5 million homes and support thousands of UK supply-chain jobs, so re-tendering could keep local jobs and planned manufacturing orders on track while a new developer is found.