Orsted A/S

Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining today's presentation. In connection with the release of our result for the second quarter this morning, we are announcing the plan for a fully underwritten rights issue, which is expected to amount to $60 billion in gross proceeds, and that is supported by our majority shareholder, the Danish state. The rights issue is intended to fulfill an incremental funding requirement which has arisen following our decision to discontinue the divestment and associated non-recourse project financing process related to our Sunrise Wind project in the U.S. With the rights issue, we will strengthen our capital structure to cover for the full ownership of Sunrise Wind, and provide the needed financial robustness and flexibility for the execution of our strategic plan as announced in February and position us for future growth. While we do not take this decision lightly, it is based on a comprehensive assessment of our options, and we have no doubt that this is the right decision for us and our shareholders and puts us on the path to maximize shareholder value going forward. We are very pleased with the support from our majority shareholders. Before going through the details of the planned rights issue, let me turn to slide five, where I will talk you through some of the operational highlights for the first half of 2025. First, we are pleased with the operational performance for the first half of the year, where our EBITDA, excluding new partnerships and cancellation fees, amounts to $13.9 billion. We remain on track to deliver our full-year EBITDA guidance of 25 to 28 billion, despite the lower wind speeds in the first half of the year. During 2025, we have made solid progress within our construction portfolio. I will cover the progress in more detail in a few slides, but would like to highlight that we have achieved first power on Greater Chang'e 2B and 4 in Taiwan, finalized the installation of turbine fountains Foundations on Revolution Wind in the U.S., and likewise initiated installation of turbine foundations at Sunrise Wind. Through our partnership and divestment program, we have secured $7 billion of proceeds from divestments, and likewise we closed the project financing for Greater Chang'e 2, raising approximately $20 billion for the 632-megawatt offshore wind farm. The availability across our offshore portfolio in the first half of the year was 92%, which is a significant increase compared to the same period last year, primarily driven by the fact that we last year were resolving issues with the electrical infrastructure on the export transmission cable onto offshore wind projects. Our renewable share generation was at 99% in line with our targets. Our total recordable injury rate increased to 2.7, slightly above our target of 2.5. To ensure improvement of our safety performance, we have launched an internal program across the food organization, which is intended to further increase training, safety awareness, and management focus, all aimed at lowering the incident rate and bringing our people home safe every day. Let's turn to slide six and a status on our four strategic priorities that we shared as part of our full year 2024 results, and which will continue to be our key focus in delivering our business plan. The first priority is to strengthen our capital structure. While the rights issue obviously will be an essential component of this, we have also taken several measures through lowering our build-out ambitions and reducing our investment program. During the first half of 2025, we progressed these measures as we closed divestments related to stakes in a U.S. onshore portfolio and our West of Dutton Sands project, and also closed the project financing package for Greater Chang'e II. The project financing package is supported for the overall project returns, and I'm pleased that we received a very strong support from both international and local banks, as well as export credit agencies, which shows that there is a healthy appetite to support premium assets. Furthermore, the continued earnings contribution from our operational portfolio is an important part of strengthening our capital structure, and I'm pleased with the performance that we have seen in the first half of 2025. The second priority is to deliver on our 8.1 gigawatt offshore wind construction program. And we have reached a number of significant milestones during the first half of the year. By delivering on our current construction portfolio, we will almost double our installed offshore capacity by end of 2027, which will further solidify our position as the leader of the industry. Our third priority is to focus and sharpen our capital allocation with a disciplined and patient value-over-volume mindset. This emphasis led us to discontinue the development of Horn C4 in its current form. While we are currently reconfiguring the project on a different timeline, we continue to view the long-term fundamentals for offshore wind in the UK as strong, and we see an attractive potential for the future deployment of Horn C4. as we continue to hold the CPET rights, the grid connection, as well as the development consent order for the project. Our fourth priority is to improve our competitiveness. We have taken several measures during the first half of the year, for instance, through a restructuring of our organization and the addition of new members to our executive management team, such that we will achieve development Chief of Development, Construction and Generation now have the full lifecycle of an offshore wind project reflected in our executive leadership team. In addition to these, we continue to introduce efficiency measures and right sides of our organization, which I will talk more into shortly. Turning to slide seven and an update on the progress on our construction projects. We continue to deliver on our offshore construction program according to plan. On Borkum RIPCON 3, we have installed all foundations and turbines and are currently awaiting the grid connection from the German transmission system operator. In the interim, we are receiving financial compensation from the TSO for the delay in grid connection. The TSO grid converter offshore installation is finalized in the meantime. First power is expected towards the end of this year, and the project is expected to be commissioned in the beginning of 2026. On Greater Tiangua IIb and IV, we achieved first power in July and have continued to make further installation progress. At this point, we have installed all of the turbine foundations more than a month ahead of schedule, and likewise installed more than half of the turbines. Furthermore, we have successfully energized the onshore substation. However, we have had to update our expected installation schedule, driven by a slow start to array cable installation and delays in the delivery of turbine blades. Therefore, we now expect one-third of turbines to achieve first power progressively during Q126. While we do not expect any material financial impact to the business case as a result of this development, we are, of course, assessing options to mitigate and reduce the delay. Altogether, we expect the commissioning of the section related to Channel 2 by the end of 2025 and commissioning of the full project during first half of 26. The project continues to focus on array cable installation and managing any potential schedule implications caused by the weather conditions. and will in the coming period continue to progress the installation of turbines, export, and array cables. Turning to an update on our Northeast program in the U.S., starting with Revolution Wind, where we have continued making good progress and remain on track for commissioning in the second half of 2026. We have made progress on the construction of the onshore substations, as well as the installation of monopiles and turbines. During the quarter, we have completed the installation of all turbine foundations and have installed nearly 70% of the turbines. The progress made during the quarter has increased the degree of completion to around 80%. The project continues to progress on a number of scopes that are critical to the delivery of the updated project schedule. In June, damage to one of the installation vessel's legs was identified and thus a need arose for the vessel to go into harbour for inspections. The inspection and repair work were carried out efficiently by the team over the course of five weeks and the vessel has since returned to service at sea. There is no expected impact to the commissioning of the project. We expect to complete the installation of turbines towards the end of this year, and once complete, we will subsequently commence the installation of turbines for sunrise winter. For the onshore substation, we are continuing to progress the equipment installation according to the updated schedule. We remain on site to manage the continued installation of the project and expect initialization early next year. The monopile for the offshore substation that was not suitable for use because of seabed resistance was successfully removed in the quarter. The installation of the new monopile will take place in the coming period, and the installation of the offshore substation is scheduled to take place in the coming period as well, utilizing the already contracted installation vessels that are undertaking work at Sunrise and Revolution Ventures. We remain on track for commissioning in the second half of 2026. Turning to the other part of our northeastern program, our Sunrise Wind Project, where we have also continued to see good progress across the different scopes and remain on track for commissioning in the second half of 2027. The degree of completion for the project remains around 35%. And while it is only a slight increase since Q1, it is important to note that the metric reflects a combination of scheduled progress and financial spend and does, as such, not necessarily capture all the progress achieved during a quarter. In fact, the project has made solid progress, according to plan, as we have started the installation of monopile foundations with currently more than 13 turbine foundations installed. This work will continue throughout the current installation window, where we will also initiate the turbine installation once completed the revolution window. The project's focus remains on a number of items that are critical to delivering the project on the updated schedule. The fabrication of monopiles is progressing according to plan and will continue throughout 2025, which is when we expect to have all foundations completed. As mentioned, we have commenced the installation of turbine foundations and will continue this work over two seasons due to the time of year restrictions of when they can be installed. On the export cable, we continue to see good progress on fabrication as two out of three sections are completed and final one being near complete. Final factory acceptance testing is expected to be completed in September. On the jacket structures for the HVDC, it has passed the final phase of the quality control and been loaded onto transport vessels and is on track to be installed later this year. We continue to manage the risks related to execution of the project and we remain on track for commissioning in the second half of 2027. At our Horn C4 project in the UK, the construction continues to progress as planned, with the onshore work to build the converter station and cables on track. The offshore scope is underway, focusing on preparing the export cable route following the completed removal of the unexploded ordinances. We are working closely with suppliers to manage the ramp-up and delivery of components to be installed offshore during 2026. with fabrication and monopiles being a key focus. There are multiple suppliers contracted for the monopile fabrication, and if relevant, we can utilize the flexibility gained from this. Further, we are also closely monitoring the installation schedule of the project's grid connection. As there are a number of renewable energy projects under construction in the same area for the grid connection, We are also working closely with National Grid, such that we can maintain current expectations for first power and commissioning of the project. Construction work for the co-located battery storage solution is planned to start during the second quarter of this year. In Poland, our Bolska II project is moving ahead according to schedule. and our collaboration with our partner, PGE, is working really well. We are progressing the first phases of the construction project, and in the second quarter, this included continued construction work at the onshore substation site and cable route preparation, onshore and offshore, as well as progress on the manufacturing of the offshore substation and monopile fabrication. We are closely following the fabrication progress of the key components, and taking the necessary mitigation actions, for instance, for the offshore substation, where the project is managing various items related to design, alignment, defense, and security. We remain on track for earliest possible sail away mid-2026 from Vietnam for the four offshore substations. The progress on the installation harbor in Poland is still on track and will float in the schedule. We will continue progressing the fabrication, cable route preparation, and also finalize cable design to initiate the cable manufacturing. We are closely engaged with contractors and regulators to ensure that we progress according to the current schedule. Finally, the project is undertaking regular site visits with our partner to secure high focus on safety. Lastly, the construction of our onshore projects across Europe and U.S. continue to progress according to plan. With that, I will now turn to slide eight and cover how the use of proceeds from the rights issue will strengthen Öster's foundation. First, it is intended to enable us to fund the full ownership of the Sunrise Wind project on our balance sheet, following the discontinuation of the farm down and financing processes that we had progressed for the project. Secondly, the right issue will strengthen our foundation and secure and improve capital structure, which is required to unfold our business model and optimize the value of our operational assets and construction portfolio. Thirdly, it is intended to enable a more value-accretive and flexible approach to timing of partnerships and divestments. And finally, It is intended to ensure that we are strongly positioned to pursue the most attractive offshore wind projects going forward in our core markets. Altogether, this results in the proposed rights issue of a size of $60 billion by way of a fully underwritten rights issue. Let me go through each of these components in detail, starting with slide 9. and the developments around the farm down and the associated project finance processes related to Sunrise Wet. As mentioned previously, we continue to see good progress in terms of construction of the project and delivery according to schedule. As part of the financing of the project and our business plan, we have decided to pursue a divestment of a stake in the project, and to pursue a non-recourse project financing package, including a tax equity bridge loan for capital management purposes. Up until April 16, 2025, we had progressed the project financing process, which at that point in time was very well on track with oversubscription of the entire debt package. We were also well progressed in negotiations with relevant equity investors. However, Following the stop work order on Equinor's Empire Wind Project, the perceived risks of the U.S. offshore wind market among investors and banks increased significantly. This extraordinary and unprecedented development, which arose unexpectedly and was outside of our control, impacted our dialogues during recent months, where investors involved in the equity process substantially increased their required risk protections and return requirements, and the banks involved on project financing ultimately were not able to continue the process under current market conditions without material risk protection, including recourse from Ørsted's parent company. Based on these developments, we decided today to discontinue the process, as it is not possible to complete the partial divestment and associated non-recourse project financing of Sunrise Wind on terms which would provide the required strengthening of our capital structure and support our investment program and business plan. As a result of this, a significant additional incremental funding requirement is needed to cover for the lack of proceeds from both the equity divestment project finance package as well as incremental CapEx requirement following our decision to assume full ownership of the project throughout the construction phase. The combined effect of these developments has led to an incremental funding requirement of around $40 billion across the period 2025 to 2027. Despite these developments around the funding of Sunrise Wind, the project is, as said, moving forward well with an absolute return level on a lifecycle basis that remains at the mid-single-digit level we have communicated before. Turning to slide 10. and a walkthrough of why a strong capital structure is required for us to optimize the value of our operational and construction portfolio. For us to leverage our business model and optimize execution, a strong capital structure is a prerequisite. Given the nature of our capital-intense business, where we are developing, constructing, and operating large, complex infrastructure assets with long durations, We have numerous counterparts across trading, suppliers, partners, and lenders. To ensure that we have the optimal conditions to operate the company and create most value for our shareholders, our counterparty arrangements require that we have a strong cash instruction. If that was not to be the case, there are a number of clauses and triggers that would negatively impact our business operation and execution. Towards both incoming asset partners and suppliers, we would be required to increase risk protection, thus worsening the terms on which we can enter into partnerships and agreements. A weaker capital structure and consequently lower credit rating would also require that we post additional collateral related to trading and hedging activities, as parent company guarantees would not be sufficient. And furthermore, it will reduce our access to favorable terms for funding activities. For these reasons, we remain firmly committed to maintain a robust capital structure with a targeted solid investment grade rating. Turning to slide 11 and the financial flexibility that the right issue will provide. As part of the initiatives already taken to strengthen our capital structure, we had a sizable divestment program at a point in time where conditions for divestments have been challenging due to the macroeconomic conditions and updated views on offshore wind as an asset class. Under these conditions, we have, as planned, delivered almost 30 billion of proceeds over the past 18 months. Going forward, and once we have delivered on our key ongoing transactions, which Trond will come back to, we will be able to take a more value-accretive and flexible approach towards the timing of partnerships and divestments and lower our dependency on farm downs below 50% ownership of operational assets to fund our business plan, thereby also lowering the execution risk. Retaining a larger share of projects' operational cash flows supports our capital structure long-term. Turning to slide 12, and how the rights issue can support our positioning in the growing European offshore windmills. While the rights issue is aimed at securing our funding requirements and strengthening our capital structure for the period 2025 through 2027, it would also solidify our long-term financial position and thereby strengthen our ability to pursue the most attractive offshore wind opportunities from a position of strength. Despite the headwinds that offshore wind as an industry has faced in recent years, we continue to see a very strong outlook for the technology, particularly in Europe, where electricity demand is projected to more than double by 2050. Europe must secure its energy future by ensuring affordability, decarbonization, competitiveness, increased energy independence and strategic autonomy. Achieving these goals requires a safe, sustainable, and reliable energy system, one that meets rising electricity demand through a diverse mix of clean energy technologies. Offshore wind remains essential to this transition as it reduces reliance on fossil fuel imports, stabilizes energy prices, strengthens energy security and resilience, and delivers large-scale, cost-efficient wind power. Across projections of future energy mix in Europe by 2050, offshore wind is expected to deliver between 20 and 25% of future electricity generation. This would correspond to a capacity between approximately 300 to 500 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity, which is a very significant increase from the current installed level of around 37 gigawatts. In the near term, we are also seeing signs in terms of improved industry conditions. To give a few examples, we have over the past three years seen investments of more than 5 billion euros in increasing the European manufacturing capacity. Also, the challenging viability of projects have reduced the appetite for developers in recent years, which demonstrates that remaining developers see a need for improved business cases. and revenue certainty by a contract for differences. When we look at the market-specific conditions, we are also seeing encouraging signs. In the UK, the CFD contracts have been extended from 15 to 20 years in new tenders. In Denmark, the government has responded promptly following the auction end of last year and has switched to CFDs in a new accelerated tender. In Poland, they have adjusted CFD frameworks to reflect the shifted market fundamentals. Netherlands is planning to adjust framework conditions to better reflect market fundamentals. In Ireland and Belgium, we are also seeing a push towards CFD tenders. Lastly, Germany is considering changes to their framework, and just last week we saw no bidders in the market-based auctions. We remain firmly committed to offshore wind as a focused, disciplined and competitive leader of the industry. As stated repeatedly, we will continue to employ a focused and disciplined capital allocation framework, and we will pursue new offshore wind opportunities once the risk-return equation for new projects is sufficiently attractive. The rights issue, combined with the initiatives that we are presenting today, will ensure that we will be well positioned to pursue future value-accretive opportunities. Let's turn to slide 13 and go through the key measures that we are taking to sharpen our focus and competitiveness. At current, we are significantly growing our portfolio and will almost double our installed offshore wind capacity by 2027. For our future capital allocations, we will have a strategic emphasis on offshore wind in our core markets in Europe and select markets in Africa. For projects in the U.S., we are fully committed to complete installation of our North Eastern program, so Sunrise and Revolution Wind. We will scale back further development projects to focus only on retaining the value and strategic optionality of our offshore lease areas. We will continue to be very financially disciplined in the way we decide to allocate capital. We will uphold our return requirement of 150 to 300 basis points, which is based on fully cost-loaded lifecycle perspective, including all development, overhead, and decommissioning costs, while not taking into account potential benefits from farm down gains or leverage. The strategic emphasis on offshore wind has implications for our remaining business area. Within our onshore business, we have initiated a process where we are exploring a potential full divestment of our European onshore business, in line with the increased focus of our core offshore business activities. Similarly, we have decided that our U.S. onshore business will hold a degree of strategic flexibility going forward that can be used to optimize the value of the group's overall portfolio. This means that the U.S. onshore business will be granted a higher degree of autonomy and independence going forward. Our U.S. onshore business has a strong foundation and continues to deliver attractive earnings and operational cash flows. Within our bioenergy business, we are also focusing our activities as we will not pursue further carbon capture tenders in the immediate future. In addition to these decisions, we are also introducing measures and initiatives to increase our competitiveness and cost efficiency. First, we are making investments into our trading and revenue business that will optimize the value from our growing operational portfolio. This is expected to contribute an expected incremental impact of 0.5 to 1 billion annually from 2027 and onwards. Secondly, we are taking several measures within our generation organization to improve our output and lower cost base through portfolio and operational efficiencies, technological innovation, standardization, and generation excellence. With our current initiative, this is expected to drive incremental annual cash flow improvements in the range of $2 to $2.5 billion from 2027 and onwards, approximately half of which is expected to have EBITDA impact. Finally, we are in the process of rightsizing our organization throughout 2025 and 2026 to lower our cost base, as we are aiming to design an organization that reflects our current build-out and is more flexible going forward. We expect to provide further information on these initiatives towards the end of the year. Let's turn to slide 14, where we cover our capital allocation principles. First, it is key for us that future investment decisions will be taken within the parameters of strong capital structure, with a targeted FFO to adjust to the net debt above 30%. We see this as the right level for us to ensure that we can maintain our solid investment rate rating And as I have described, it is important for our business model and the value we create from our construction and operational portfolio. Regarding dividend, we remain committed to reinstate dividends for the financial year 2026 to pay out in 2027. We fully appreciate the importance of dividends to our shareholders and reiterate our commitment to reintroduce it. Lastly, we will only pursue opportunities that meet our strict value creation criteria. We have already illustrated this commitment with our decision to discontinue development of Horn C4 in its current form. We will continue with our disciplined value over volume mindset and only pursue new opportunities once the risk of termination for new projects is sufficiently attractive for us. Based on the committed capital of $145 billion through 2027, the projections of our credit metrics indicate a significant increase in our investment headroom beyond 2027, which we look to utilize governed by the strict capital allocation principles that I just described. This implies that the projected financial headroom will be utilized for value-creating offshore wind investment opportunities or alternatively shareholder remunerations. With that, let me hand over the financial update to you, Todd.

Thank you, Rasmus, and good morning from me as well. Before going to the numbers of the business plan, let's turn to slide 16 and walk you through the key development of our EBITDA in the second quarter. For the second quarter, we realized a total EBITDA of $6.6 billion. And when I refer to numbers, they're all in Danish kronos, except otherwise stated. That is slightly higher than last year. Excluding new partnerships and cancellation fees, we realized an EBITDA of $5.3 billion, and that is the same level as for Q2 of 2024. For the offshore business, earnings came in around the same level as last year. Earnings from sites increased by more than $400 million, driven by ramp-up generation at Goldivian 3, compensation related to Borkum Rift Grub 3, higher availability rate, as well as higher pricing on green certificates and inflation-linked subsidies. This was partly offset by the impact of lower wind speeds. The decrease in other costs within the segment primarily relates to cost reallocation, which does not impact the overall earnings for the business. In our offshore business, earnings increased by $200 million, driven by ramp-up generation from new assets and sale of components. Within bio, energy, and other, earnings increased mainly driven by higher achieved offtake prices and increased offtake volumes. For new partnership, we recognized an EBITDA gain of $2.8 billion relating to divestment of a 24.5% stake in the West of Devon Sands project. For cancellation fees, the total amounted to a net loss of $1.5 billion. This related to the decision to discontinue development of Hornsheet 4, which led to a negative EBTA impact of $2.9 billion. This was partly offset by a positive impact of $1.3 billion from various settlements and other contract payments relating to the Ocean Wind 1 project. On a related note, we have now virtually worked our way through the contract settlements related to ceasing development of Ocean Wind 1. And we have ultimately managed to settle on better-than-assumed terms for more than $9 billion in total. Turning then to slide 17, an update to our investment programs towards 2027, following the planned rights issue. Our guidance on gross investments continue to reflect our share of the CAPEX that we have committed to our ongoing construction projects. Compared to our previous guidance of $130 billion of committed CAPEX, The increase of approximately $15 billion relates to the incremental capex from increasing our ownership share in the Sunrise Wind project throughout the entire construction phase, as well as higher anticipated costs due to the imposed tariffs in the U.S. As shown on the graph, part of our capex outlook is realized during the first half of 2025. So the incremental CAPEX requirement is around $120 billion. Of that, around $110 billion is expected to be deployed towards the installation of our 8.1 gigawatt offshore construction portfolio, and the remainder will be used for construction of our projects within onshore and bioenergy districts. Turning now to slide 18, and an update to our partnership and divestment program. Since we launched the acceleration of our farm down program, we have, except for Sunrise Wind, progressed according to plan. With the planned rights issue, we will reduce some of our planned activities and only execute on selected number of divestments to optimize value creation. Across 25 and 26, we now expect to secure proceeds of more than $35 billion across a number of transactions. We have already secured almost $7 billion of proceeds this year, by closing of a transaction of a stake in the U.S. onshore portfolio, as well as the divestment of the stake in the West of the Nissan project. The additional proceeds are expected to come from a small number of transactions, but primarily from partial divestments of our ownership shares in the Horsey 3 and Greater Changwa 2 projects. In addition to this, as Rosamund also mentioned, we have launched the sales process for a potential for divestments of our European onshore business as part of our strategic prioritization. We have made good progress on both the divestment process in Greater Changma II, which is progressing according to plan. Regarding Honsi III, as of today, we are well-progressed with the preferred visits. As we have said over the past quarters, it is the buyer's market which we see reflected in the return requirements from the potential incoming parties. We are always looking to optimize our divestment according to our three objectives. And for the potential divestment of Hornsley 3, capital management is particularly important consideration given the scale. and the fact that it is in the relative early in construction phase, as we speak. Compared to the previous target of $50 to $60 billion of proceeds in 2025 and 2026, the main adjustments relate to the removal of the previous expected find-down of Sunrise Wind, and removal of some divestments below 50% ownership in operational assets. Going forward, we will have a more value-accretive and flexible approach to timing of partnerships and divestments, which will be driven by value optimization rather than funding requirements. Hence, we lower our dependency of divestments as a funding tool. In this regard, we now plan to undertake the entire financing on Sunrise Spin ourselves, and we'll reassess our stake in the project at the latest stage, depending on the development of the market conditions. Turning to slide 19 and our earnings projections towards 27. For our EBTA, We continue to see earnings growth towards 2027, mainly driven by commissioning of the projects we are currently constructing. For 2025, our guidance range on EBITDA remains unchanged, despite the lower wind speeds in the first half of the year, and we expect EBITDA for 2026 to be above $28 billion and for 2027 to be above $32 billion. For 2026, we adjusted our EBTA expectation downwards, driven solely by a change of the expected timing of the farm down of Greater Changba 2 projects. As we now assume to the best stake early in the year, compared to previously assumed towards the end of the year, as well as the removal of anticipated earnings from the construction agreement for Sunrise Wind. For 27, the EBITDA growth compared to previous years is driven by ramp-up generation and commissioning of new projects towards the end of the year. Also, there are benefits from trading and revenue initiatives, optimization of generation, as well as reduction in organizational costs included. For the return on capital employed, we expect to be average around 11% for the period 25 to 27, and more than 13% for 28 to 30. Compared to the ROSI for the same period under previous guidance, the impact is coming from higher investments following full ownership of Sunrise Wind, which lowers the ROSI with approximately two percentage points over the period 25 to 27. Hence, the average row seat for the period 25 to 27 would be around 13% if we exclude the increased capital employed, which we will incur due to the full ownership of Sunrose Wind. Towards 27, the investments undertaken in our large construction portfolio are impacting the metrics significantly. as the average capital employed for construction projects not contributing to earnings during the period is expected to be $50 billion. To put this into perspective, our capital employed at the second quarter is around $165 billion. Turning to slide 20 and our sources and uses towards 2017. As Rosemarie has covered, the discontinuation of partial divestment and the associated financing process for Sunrise Spring led to an incremental fund requirement over the period 25 to 27. To ensure that we continue to have the right level of capitalization throughout the coming years, we have concluded that the total rights issue of $60 billion will ensure this. We continue our work on farming down major fully owned projects. With the planned rights issue, we will, for the period towards 27, significantly strengthen our liquidity position. With the combination of our existing liquidity reserve, the proceeds from the planned rights issue, the future expected cash flow from operation and tax equity proceeds for the coming years, we will be able to fund the remainder of our construction portfolio without the need for any further divestments, thus ensuring that we have a full backer plan for the coming years. It is important to note that the rights issue is addressing the challenges all to our capital structure and the headroom within our credit projections. Financial headroom within our credit projections reflects the investment capacity above our targeted FFO net debt levels for the given period. To ensure we continue to stand by our commitments, also in the coming year, the rights issue will fully address the adverse impact to the headroom following the adverse development relating to the sunrise wind divestment. Going then to slide 21 and the outlook of our performance beyond 27. Once we have completed our sizable construction portfolio by 27, we will be in a financially strong position. First, we will start to have the full earnings benefit from the completion of the build-out. Once our current offshore construction portfolio is fully commissioned, These projects will annually contribute with around $11 to $12 billion of EBITDA in earnest accounts. Secondly, our return on capital employed is expected to increase above 30 percent to the average between 28 and 30. This is expected either through investment into higher return projects or from lower capital employed due to a lower investment level. The exact level will depend on utilization of projected financial headroom. Finally, we expect to see an increase in the financial headroom, which will provide flexibility to pursue the most value-accreted investment opportunities under a disciplined approach or alternatively lead to shareholder remuneration. The plan-wide issue will significantly de-risk our trajectory towards a more financially strong position. So to deliver on these elements, our top priority will be to continue delivering on our construction portfolio. Turning to slide 22, an assembly of our business plan. What they expect to deliver in the mid-term earnings growth is based on installed renewable capacity of 27 gigawatts by 2027, all of which is based on projects currently in operation and are more than 8 gigawatts construction portfolio. This brings in line of sight of EBTA growth towards 2027, where we expect an EBTA above $32 billion. Our expectation of return of capital employed is around 11% for the period 25 through 27, which is impacted by the incremental CAPEX requirement from constructing Sunrise Wind under full ownership. As I just mentioned, we expect this number to increase beyond 27, where average return on capital employed is expected to be above 13% in the period between 28 and 30. We will uphold strict capital discipline and continue to target return requirements of 150 to 300 basis points on a fully cost-loaded lifecycle perspective. We reaffirm our intention to reinstate the dividend for financial year 26 with payout in 27. And finally, we remain committed to continue our work on reducing greenhouse gas emissions across scope 1, 2, 3, 3. Finally, on my part, let's turn to slide 23 and the key parameters on our rights issue. The rights issue provides preemptive subscription rights for existing shareholders. The targeted proceeds is $60 billion. and it is supported by the Danish state for its 50.1% pro rata share of the capital increase. The remaining part of the rights issue and the expected proceeds are fully underwritten by Morgan Stanley & Co. International. Next step will be to host an extraordinary general meeting where the board will authorize the rights issues. This is expected to take place on September 5th. Once authorized, the prospectus will be released, and the transaction is expected to close during the first half of October. And with that, I will hand back to Rasmus for closing remarks.

Thank you very much, Trond. Let's turn to slide 25, where we'll summarize the presentation. We continue to solidify our leading position with offshore wind, with our more than 10 gigawatts of capacity in operation and more than 8 gigawatts of capacity to be commissioned over the coming years. We hold an attractive operational portfolio that continues to deliver solid, predictable earnings, and we are initiating measures that will further improve the value of the portfolio through generation excellence and revenue optimization. We are continuing to progress the installations of our more than eight gigawatt of offshore wind construction projects, which provide clear line of sight and significant earnings growth in the short term. We are further sharpening our strategic emphasis on offshore wind towards core markets in Europe and select opportunities in Asia, where fundamentals are in place for sufficiently value-accretive growth. With the planned right issue, we will enhance our financial flexibility and solidity, which will support higher value retention in partnerships and divestments. Finally, we will continue to apply a disciplined caps allocation with strict prioritization of value over volume. Objected financial headroom will be applied toward value-accretive offshore wind opportunities or alternatively shareholder remuneration. With that, let's turn to Q&A, operator, please.