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 justifying or even detailing concerns, but except for work until a project review has ended. Revolution Wind is a 50 to 50 -year collaboration between Denmark -based Orsted and the Skyborn Renewable Unit, private investment investment investment partners.
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”.
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.
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 the response, including 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, the President of the Construction of North America’s unions 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 stop order similar to the Equinor developer Empire Empire Wind of $ 5 million also in New York, but quickly reversed it after the intervention by the 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.
“It remains to see what price [Trump] He could try to extract from Connecticut and Rhode Island, Osted or Even Denmark to lift the stop ordering, “said Recharge of the publication of the wind sector.
Revolution Wind “ caused investments in Louisiana and New England shipyards, bought export cables from a South Carolina factory, and pushed for a steel supply chain that crossed New York and created hundreds of union jobs in Providence, Rhode Island, ” said Liz Burdick, CEO of the Network Oceanthic Industry Group.
In a social media post, analyst Philip Tourtao, the CEO of Interstor, pointed out the range of world -based suppliers and contractors, including Worley, based in Australia and several European companies that have created operations based in the United States. “I am curious about which of the companies in the supply chain involved in the project allegedly represent a risk of national security for the United States. Business -based companies in the United States? UK companies?
But the order adds new financial strains for Osted, whose shares fell by 17% on August 25, said Financial Media. The challenges of the North -American market in recent years and, in particular, this year of Donald Trump’s orders, unlike other developers in the sector, have included the increase in costs and interest rates, supply chain interruptions and changes in tax credit rules that have delayed and canceled projects.
In a call from August 11, Osted executives noted the corporate funding needs caused by “unexpected developments outside our control” in the American market, created in recent months by consecutive administration policies in the anti-alpeutic sector.
