The offshore wind supply chain will localise in the US more quickly than it has in the UK, the world’s leading market, predicts Orsted’s head of US procurement.

“At our large-scale projects in the UK, we’re getting close to contracting half locally,” Anne Grethe Jeppesen said Thursday at an industry conference hosted by the Business Network for Offshore Wind.

“I believe the pace of contracting locally will happen much, much faster in the US,” Jeppesen said.