Orsted Seeks Green Supermajor Role With $57 Billion Plan (1)

摘要

Orsted A/S plans to spend 350 billion Danish kroner ($57 billion) by 2027 to be the world’s leading green energy provider.But the Danish firm, already the biggest developer of offshore wind farms, faces increasing competition from other utilities as well as oil majors that aim to be major players in thetransition to clean energy, an area it pioneered when it ditched its fossil-fuel business for an all-renewable strategy.As green energy grows from a niche to a key way the world gets electricity, Orsted is speeding up investment to keep its edge. The new target is an average annual increase of about 50%from the company’s last strategy update in 2018, it said Wednesday.