Offshore staff
LONDON – bp and Energie Baden-Württemberg (EnBW) have named their planned new offshore wind projects in the Irish Sea off north Wales and northwest England Morgan and Mona.
The two developments will provide a combined generating capacity of 3 GW.
Morgan, in Old Welsh, means ‘sea chief,’ while Mona relates to Ynys Môn, the Welsh name for the Isle of Anglesey offshore northwest Wales.
The partnership is encouraging UK-based suppliers to register their interest at enbw-bp.com/suppliers, particularly those with connections across North Wales and northwest England.
EnBW and bp were jointly named preferred bidder for the two leases in the UK Offshore Wind Round 4 earlier this year, marking bp’s entry into the UK’s offshore wind power sector.
Currently EnBW currently operates four offshore wind facilities in the German Baltic Sea and North Sea.
Morgan and Mona are respectively 300 and 500 sq km (116 and 193 sq mi) in size, and are both around 30 km (18.6 mi) offshore, in average water depths of 35 m (115 ft).
The partnership started wildlife surveys earlier in the year and is currently examining geological conditions, the benthic habitat, and presence of obstructions and sensitive resources in the lease areas.
And with various ferry transport routes for passengers and cargo across the Irish Sea, between mainland Britain, the Isle of Man and Ireland, the partnership is establishing a maritime navigation forum to assess ways to minimize the impact to shipping.
07/14/2021
