Danish windfarm firm Ørsted to axe up to 800 jobs and pause dividend
by Alex Lawson from Environment | The Guardian on (#6JEJM)
Company developing world's largest offshore windfarm in North Sea attempts to recover from turbulent year
The Danish company developing the world's largest offshore windfarm in the North Sea is to cut hundreds of jobs and pause its dividend in an attempt to recover from a chaotic 12 months.
Orsted, which is behind the 8bn Hornsea 3 project off the Yorkshire coast, said on Wednesday it planned to axe up to 800 jobs, pull back from markets in Spain, Portugal and Norway, and suspend dividend payments to shareholders covering the 2023-25 financial years.
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