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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent

Ørsted cancels two US offshore windfarm projects at £3.3bn cost

Turbines of the Ørsted Block Island windfarm in an aerial photograph taken from high above the sea
Ørsted’s Block Island project, off Rhode Island, was the US’s first commercial offshore windfarm. Photograph: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Denmark’s Ørsted has cancelled two big offshore windfarm projects in the US at a cost of more than £3bn amid surging costs facing the global wind industry.

Shares in the world’s biggest wind power company fell 25% on Wednesday after it told investors it had no choice but to take a 28.4bn Danish kroner (£3.3bn) impairment charge and stop the developments off the New Jersey coast.

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