Rhode Island and Connecticut governors said they would fight a Trump administration order to stop the construction of the 704-MW Revolution Wind Energy project 15 miles from their shores, which is about 80% and could operate next year.
The first high seaside wind energy project to share production, the estimated $ 4 million Wind settled in more than 350,000 homes in the two states, with Rhode Island for 400 MW and connecticut with 304 MW. About 45 of its 65 turbines built in Siemens Games, every 11 MW, are installed.
However, on August 22, Matt Giacona, acting director of the Federal Ocean Energy Management Office, the Agency of Dept. From the United States Department, which regulates the wind out of the sea in the federal waters, he notified that the project developer adorned to “stop all ongoing activities”.
In particular, he said, “[the agency] It seeks to address concerns related to the protection of national security interests in the United States, “not detailing the concerns, but rather preventing the resumption of work until a project review has ended. Revolution Wind is a 50 to 50 -year association among global investment partners in Skyborn’s Skyborn, Denmark -based.
Osted also developed the Wind Offshore Wind project of 123 GW South Fork outside the state of New York, which was built in 2023 and is the first such energy project to operate on a commercial scale in the United States.
The firm said in a statement that it was “considering several scenarios, including legal procedures.” But for the moment, “it complies with the order and is doing the appropriate measures to stop activities out of the sea, guaranteeing the safety of workers and the environment”.
South Fork has worked at 53% of its capacity during the first half of 2025, “at the same time with the basic sources of energy energy,” said Osted. The signature continues to build a third project, the 924-MW Sunrise Wind, to offer energy in New York at the end of 2027. Osted said that its wind projects outside the American coast have totalized up to 4 million union working hours to date, with 2 million Revolution Wind.
“At a time when we should move forward with energy solutions, jobs and affordability, the Trump administration chooses delay and interruption,” said Rhode Island governor Dan McKEE (D) on social networks. “I will pass all the ways to reverse the decision to stop the work on the wind of the revolution,” he added, emphasizing that the project was totally allowed. The Governor of Connecticut, Ned Lamont (D), joined him in a potential demand, while Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) Stated that he hopes that legal decisions in favor of the states, finding the illegal order, as he was based on “secret information”.
Others also failed the administration action. “President Donald Trump has just shot 1,000 of our members who had already worked to complete 80% of this great energy project,” said Sean McGARVEY, president of the North America’s building unions (Nabtu) in a statement. Trump “continues to talk about a great game about energy domain, but actions like this show that it is another empty promise of its administration. This is not a domain; it is a decrease. Energy domain does not mean to take off jobs.”
In April, the administration issued a similar work order for the Ecuinor Equire Wind Equinor also outside New York, but quickly reversed it after the intervention of state and other officials, in particular governor Kathy Hochul. There is speculation that reversion followed its will to consider the construction of two natural gas pipes in the state.
The project “ caused investments in Louisiana and New England shipyards, bought export cables to a southern Carolina factory, and promoted a steel supply chain that crossed New York and created hundreds of union jobs in Providence, Rhode Island, ” said Liz Burdick, director general of the Advocacy Group Oceanic Network.
In a publication on social media, analyst Philip Tourtao, an outside of the sea, said the range of world contractors working in Revolution Wind, including World, based in Australia and several European companies that have created American operations. “I am curious about which of the companies in the supply chain participating in the project represent a risk of national security for the United States. The companies based in the United States? UK companies located in EU member countries such as Denmark, Spain, France or the Netherlands? The industry must ask for responsibility!”
In the meantime, the order adds new financial strains for Osted, whose shares fell by 17% on August 25. The challenges of recent years and even months, unlike those of other developers in the sector, have included increase costs and interest rates, interruptions in the supply chain and tax credit investments ordered by Trump that have caused delays and cancellation of projects in the United States.
In a call from August 11, Osted pointed out the corporate funding needs caused by “unexpected developments outside our control” in the US market, created in recent months by the administration’s policies in the show against the show.
