The company said that the projects were being hit by delays and increased costs on suppliers, like wind turbine component manufacturers and the specialized ships needed to install the large machines, whose blades are as long as football fields.
“There is a continuously increasing risk in these suppliers’ ability to deliver on their commitments and contracted schedules,” Orsted said in a statement on Tuesday.
The company said that the sharp rise in interests rates would increase costs in the United States.
Orsted also said that it might not be able to achieve tax credits from the United States as large as it previously anticipated.
The impairments amount to about half of the $4 billion that Orsted said it had invested in its offshore portfolio in the United States but are only a fraction of the value of these projects and the company’s overall American plans.
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