Orsted has hired a new head of generation for the UK \u2013 the Danish offshore wind giant\u2019s largest market.<\/p>\n
Peter Hepburn will join Orsted in October from UK-based power producer Spirit Energy, where he was operations director.<\/p>\n
At Orsted, Hepburn will head a generation operation comprising 650 workers and 12 operational offshore wind farms with a 5.7GW capacity.<\/p>\n
It is currently building the 2.9GW Hornsea 3 mega-project in the North Sea and also has in its locker the 2.4GW Hornsea 4, which controversially returned a UK contract for difference power deal after Orsted decided it was no longer viable on existing terms.<\/p>\n
Peter Hepburn, UK head of generation at Orsted.Photo: Orsted<\/p>\n
Hepburn has also previously worked for EnQuest and Maersk Oil, and according to Orsted \u201chas successfully led large-scale operational improvement programmes, strengthened governance and developed high-performing organisations across offshore energy businesses\u201d.<\/p>\n
Orsted\u2019s chief generation officer Godson Njoku said of Hepburn: \u201cHis extensive operational experience, proven leadership and deep understanding of safety-critical offshore industries make him exceptionally well placed to lead one of the world’s largest offshore wind generation portfolios.\u201d<\/p>\n
Orsted recently carried out a shake up of its UK top team<\/a>, with Richard Bodal Hansen taking over as its new country manager, succeeding industry veteran Benj Sykes who has taken up a new role of UK country chair.(Copyright)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orsted has hired a new head of generation for the UK \u2013 the Danish offshore wind giant\u2019s largest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[285],"tags":[287],"class_list":["post-141285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orsted","tag-orsted"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117047931050344503","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}