Danish firm Orsted has signed a deal to sell off its power distribution business for £2.5 billion to allow a "significant expansion" into the offshore wind sector.
Benj Sykes does not claim to have all the answers for oil and gas companies on how to accomplish an effective energy transition, but he does have the best vantage point.
Danish offshore wind giant Orsted has seen its plans to extend its Race Bank project blocked by the UK Crown Estate as the regulative body allowed several other developments to increase their size.
The U.K.’s energy markets regulator said it’ll probe whether grid operators or power generators breached license conditions during the Aug. 9 blackout that saw more than one million British households lose power.
Offshore wind giant Orsted is understood to be looking at the possibility of adding an additional 180 turbines off the coat of Yorkshire with a new wind farm.
The speed of growth at Danish company Orsted will allow it to outpace other former oil firms who have transitioned to offshore wind, according to research group Macquarie.
Wind giant Orsted has said it is "looking forward" to seeing the full details of the next Scottish offshore wind leasing round, as the firm experienced a bumper surge in revenues from the sector.
Aberdeenshire Conservative MP Colin Clark claimed the UK energy sector could be about to "cut off its nose to spite its face" if it doesn't utilise the skills from North Sea oil and gas during a Treasury Committee meeting.
A new multi-million offshore wind initiative will explore current "challenges" for UK firms and help them "compete for contracts in a global market", according to a UK industry chairman.
Big firms from oil and gas and the renewable energy sector have signed up to new task force aimed at exploiting the large amounts of offshore wind power generated in the UK.
Danish offshore wind giant Orsted has succeeded in a lengthy legal challenge by the family of pioneering scientist Hans Christian Orsted to use his name.
French oil giant Total has announced it will form a consortium with offshore wind developer Orsted to submit a bid for a Dunkirk offshore wind project.