Orsted Lifts 2018 Outlook

Thursday, November 1, 2018

Danish energy group Orsted posted third-quarter profit well above analyst expectations on Thursday and lifted its outlook for the year, in part thanks to the contribution from new offshore wind projects.

Orsted now expects EBITDA for the year excluding new partnership deals at 13 billion to 14 billion Danish crowns, up from 12.5 billion to 13.5 billion previously guided.

"The increase is primarily due to good progress on our offshore construction projects," Chief Executive Henrik Poulsen said in a statement, noting a faster ramp-up of power generation at the Borkum Riffgrund 2 project in Germany.

Higher natural gas prices also helped to lift earnings in the third quarter.

Orsted is rebranding itself as a renewable energy firm after it sold its oil and gas unit to Ineos last year, courting investors interested in green investments which have seen a boost amid policies to protect the climate.

The firm, formerly known as DONG Energy, reported earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of 2.23 billion Danish crowns ($340 million), compared with 1.85 billion crowns forecast in a Reuters analyst survey.

Including profits from the Hornsea 1 partnership in the UK, Orsted said it still expects EBITDA for the year to be "significantly higher" than the 22.5 billion achieved in 2017.

Analysts on average expect EBITDA of 27.3 billion for 2018.

The company' power generation increased 12 percent between July and September compared to a year earlier.

The company also said it submitted a bid in a clean energy auction in Connecticut in September and expects to receive the outcome of the auction before the end of the year.

The bid comes after it said in August it would acquire U.S. wind farm developer Lincoln Clean Energy.

"During the third quarter we have secured a very strong and long-term growth platform in the American market," Poulsen said in a statement.


($1 = 6.5677 Danish crowns)

(Reporting by Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen Editing by Edmund Blair)

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