Developer Orsted will invest in Maryland’s Crystal Steel Fabricators (CSF) as part of component supply agreements worth almost $70m for turbine foundations it will employ on three contracted US mid-Atlantic offshore wind projects.

The parts to be manufactured at the Federalsburg facility owned by CSF, a family business set up by John, Bill and Jeff Lo in 1992, will be deployed on the 120MW Skipjack Wind 1 off the Maryland coast and 1.1GW