Morecambe is a 480 MW fixed bottom offshore wind project located 30km from the Lancashire coast in the Eastern Irish Sea. The project lease was secured in the UK Offshore Wind Leasing Round 4 in 2021, and consent applications have been submitted.
Commenting on the acquisition, Nischal Agarwal, Partner at CIP, said: “CIP is very pleased to acquire Morecambe—a fixed bottom offshore wind project of excellent fundamental qualities, at an advanced stage of development, and well placed to contribute to the UK’s Clean Power 2030 Action Plan. Our acquisition of the Morecambe project demonstrates CIP’s confidence in the delivery of the UK Government’s ambitious 2030 offshore wind target, as enabled by its world leading CfD scheme, and key reforms aimed at speeding up planning and grid processes.”
CIP has a long track record of successfully constructing renewable projects in the UK. The acquisition of Morecambe signals further growth for CIP’s UK development pipeline, which now stands at over 25 GW, covering offshore wind, onshore wind, solar, BESS, and network infrastructure. With a pipeline of this scale, CIP looks forward to making a substantial contribution to the UK’s 2030 objective for energy infrastructure investment.
In the UK, CIP has previously, through its Flagship Funds, invested in the now operational Beatrice Offshore wind farm (588 MW, located in Scotland), and is currently developing the Pentland and Ossian Floating Offshore wind farms (100 MW and 3600MW respectively, both located in Scotland).
Morecambe will become part of CIP’s CI V flagship fund, which has a target fund size of EUR 12 billion and invests in a range of renewable technologies from wind and solar PV to energy storage across Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific.
