The Crown Estate has made some modifications to the auction process for the Celtic Sea floating wind leases offshore Wales and southwest England, focusing on social value, integration ports and supply chain, as well as addressing new spatial constraints to help de-risk projects ahead of opening the leasing round to bidders later this year.

In regards to spatial considerations, the Crown Estate has adopted its approach to focus on delivering up to 4 GW of initial floating wind capacity in four project sites located in two of the shortlisted search areas published in October 2022 .