How a Danish energy company went from black to green

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In the last decade, Danish energy company Ørsted did what few other energy utilities in the world have been able to do: They went from being almost entirely reliant on oil, gas and coal to being the biggest producer of offshore wind in the world. This week on The Big Fix, The World’s Anna Kusmer reports on how decades of government policy supporting wind energy led to Ørsted’s remarkable transition.

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