The Crown Estate

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

The UK Crown Estate has granted a seabed lease for the offshore phase of a carbon capture and storage project in Liverpool Bay.

5th August 2026

Seabed lease unlocks offshore phase of Liverpool Bay CCS project

5th August 2026

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

The UK’s Crown Estate has launched an accelerated competitive tender to appoint a new developer for the 1.5GW Morgan Offshore Wind Project after former developers JERA Nex bp and EnBW abandoned the lease earlier this year.

5th August 2026

Re-tendered offshore wind project re-opens opportunities for commercial marine

5th August 2026

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

A new set of guidelines aimed at easing long-running tensions between the fishing industry and the offshore renewables sector has been published today by the Fishing Liaison with Offshore Wind and Wet…

28th November 2025

Fishing and offshore sectors unite

28th November 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

A seabed lease has been finalised to allow the world’s largest offshore wind farm, Dogger Bank, to be expanded, even though the UK grid cannot cope with existing wind power generation.

28th August 2025

Plans agreed to make world’s biggest OSW farm even bigger

28th August 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Three offshore wind farm sites off the south-west coast of the UK have been opened up to bidders by the Crown Estate, which owns all the land off the coast of the…

13th August 2024

Wales kicks off floating wind farm leasing round

13th August 2024

SUBSEA SERVICES

SUBSEA SERVICES

Subsea survey firms and offshore wind developers have called on industry to collaborate in sharing survey data to minimise the cost of developing the number of farms that will be necessary if…

15th March 2024

OSW developers called on to data share

15th March 2024

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Crown Estate has made its first major investment in surveys to support the proposal to create clean energy capacity through floating offshore wind in the Celtic Sea. 

20th December 2022

Floating offshore wind plans for the Celtic Sea

20th December 2022