EVERSOURCE, New England’s biggest utility, mentioned on Thursday that it plans to exit the offshore wind business enterprise and create down the worth of its holdings by $220 million to $280 million.

The utility mentioned it is promoting its 50 % stake in an undeveloped 175,000-acrea lease location 25 miles off the coast of Massachusetts for $625 million in money to its original companion on the deal, Orsted. The corporation also mentioned it plans to sell its 50 % stake in 3 other wind farms — South Fork Wind, Revolution Wind, and Sunrise Wind – by the finish of June. Orsted is Eversource’s 50-50 companion on all 3 of these projects as nicely.

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Eversource mentioned it believes an “other-than-short-term impairment exists” on the company’s offshore wind business enterprise, which will outcome in a reduction in earnings of
$220 million to $280 million.. The corporation mentioned its estimate of the fair worth of the offshore wind business enterprise is primarily based on the anticipated possible sales cost of Eversource’s 50 % interest of the 3 contracted projects, as nicely as the $625 million sale of the uncommitted lease location.

“While we are pursuing an exit of the unregulated offshore wind business enterprise, Eversource is totally committed to becoming a catalyst to the region’s clean power transition, with our regulated providers developing quite a few of the facilities that will allow a lot more than 9,000 megawatts of offshore wind generation to attain the residences and companies of Southern New England,” mentioned Joe Nolan, Eversource’s president, CEO, and board chair.

The impairment suggests just how difficult financially the offshore wind business enterprise is ideal now. Avangrid and South Coast Wind have each indicated they have to have to get out of contracts they signed final year with ratepayers in Massachusetts due to the fact of altering financial circumstances. Eversource’s regulated utility in Massachusetts, which helped negotiate the contracts, has refused to budge on the terms.

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