Ørsted at a glance

Find your place in the home of innovation

For Ørsted, innovation goes beyond products and technological platforms. We’re looking to recruit original thinkers with a natural curiosity to pursue new paths in the search for better solutions.

Innovation wouldn’t be possible if we all looked at the world in the same way. We believe that an inclusive culture and diverse workforce is good for our employees, essential for society, and key to creating the innovative solutions that define us as a company.

First mover to market leader

In 1991, we built the world’s first offshore wind farm. With 11 turbines and enough output to supply 2,200 Danish homes, Vindeby may have been a small beginning, but it paved the way for a huge transformation in the way we generate power. 

Nearly three decades later, in 2019, Ørsted commissioned Hornsea 1, the world’s largest offshore wind farm, which now supplies 1.1 million British homes with power.

Through focused innovation, both turbines and farm sizes have grown significantly, yielding more production per turbine, and producing energy at a lower cost.  We’ve achieved things that could hardly be imagined 20 years ago. Our turbines are now twice the height and diameter of those built in 2001, standing further from the shore than thought technically possible, on wind farms of an unprecedented scale.

Crossing new frontiers with solar and storage

Having mastered the challenge of offshore wind, we’re also building a growing onshore business in the U.S., where we’re leading the way with onshore wind, solar energy, and battery storage.

Solar power is one of the most mature and fast-growing renewable energy technologies. Just like offshore and onshore wind, solar is now cheaper than newly built coal or gas capacity in two thirds of the world.

Meanwhile, our battery technology means we can store power when supply exceeds demand and release it when there’s more demand than supply. This adds flexibility to the grid, which is a key tool to help balance short-term fluctuations in the power supply from onshore wind and solar.

Goodbye coal

We used to burn huge amounts of coal in our combined heat and power plants in Denmark. Today we’ve converted six of them to run on sustainable biomass. One still burns some coal, but this is something that we will end altogether by 2023.

Our decision to repurpose our power stations has made us a world leader in sustainable biomass energy. It’s also made one of the biggest contributions to the reduction in carbon emissions Denmark has achieved since 2006.

Thanks in no small part to this shift, the power we generate went from 17% green energy in 2006 to 86% in 2019. It will reach nearly 100% by 2025.