UK seabed’s manager, The Crown Estate, announced that it will launch a second phase of engagement with the market and stakeholders regarding a new offshore wind leasing, after a positive market response to its first proposals.
The first round of engagement took place in July 2018 and was attended by more than 100 industry representatives and 25 statutory stakeholders.
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The market feedback confirmed the appetite for at least 6GW of new seabed rights, as well as support for The Crown Estate’s proposed leasing model, where developers identify their preferred sites within broad regions of seabed.
In addition, market participants provided feedback on a range of other subjects, such as the proposed leasing model, scale and frequency of potential new leasing, spatial considerations, size and type of projects and timeline to tender.
The Crown Estate will now present its updated proposals to the market, statutory stakeholders, and for the first time a broader group of non-statutory stakeholders, to seek their views.
The market session which will target potential leasing process participants, will take place on 26th of November.
Now, The Crown Estate will confirm plans for a new offshore wind leasing round, known as Round 4. This could be launched in the beginning of 2019, maintaining a pipeline of projects through to the late 2020s and beyond.
