Off-sea wind energy projects in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Virginia have been affected by new legal actions after the new Energy Policy of the Trump Administration, but the Mammoth project of 2.6 GW has marked a key milestone and is running to the end of 2026.
In New Jersey, an administrative appeal judge at the United States Environmental Protection Agency has invalidated the Agency for the Wind Energy Agency Agency Permission on the Atlantic coast on the New Jersey coast, the first wind project outside the United States coast in a late stage end permit for the federal edition.
The action of March 14 against the 1.5 GW project on the coast of the Atlantic city developed by the Energy Giant Shell and the French state utility Edf arrives six months after the EPA approved the permission that allows it to continue with the construction.
The judge of environmental appeals Mary Kay Lynch invalidated the permission and re -reviewed the agency for review, citing the executive order of the administration of January 20 to stop the approves of the wind project in land or water under federal jurisdiction for 60 days.
The Council “has generally exercised extensive discretion to grant a voluntary remedy request for a permit issuer when the permanent authority re -evaluates his permission decision,” said Lynch’s order. He responded to an appeal by a new Jersey opponent, Save Long Beach Island, who claimed environmental damage to the project and an EPA application.
“Atlantic Shores is disappointed by the EPA’s decision to withdraw his permission completely executed, as the regulatory certainty is essential to deploy large energy projects,” said a project spokesman. The project claims that the agency did not provide “good cause” for the motion.
Atlantic Shores argued that the EPA had not “identified any condition” in the final permission approved last September that it wants to change or reconsider substantially. He also argued that a voluntary remittance “without good cause” has as an effect to “avoid the legal term” provided to the clean air law and conflict with the developer’s lease terms.
The project consists of two wind farms planned for places about 14 km on the coast. The developers reached a state compensation agreement for the first phase of 1.5 GW, but both sponsors reported recent written projects, with Shell who reported an estimated loss and the departure of the project at the end of January and EDF later reported a loss of $ 941 million.
But the ruling of the Resources Board said that it deals with voluntary remedy applications “liberally and is not limited to circumstances”, when the EPA provides “specific substantial changes to the final permit”, which adds that the permit was not final because the administrative review actions had not been exhausted, according to a Bloomberg report.
“Uncertainty”
New Jersey in early February also canceled his next wind request at Ronda 4, for which Atlantic Shores was the only remaining bidder, citing the removal and uncertainty of Shell caused by the Administration. It is also expected that the State Public Utilities Council will soon consider applications for delaying the planned bidders that lead the light wind and attentive energy.
The Governor of the State Phil Murphy (D), in the last year of his term, previously established an ambitious goal of generating 11 GW of electricity from wind energy out of the sea until 2040 as part of the Master Plan of Energy of the State in the transition to 100% renewable energy by 2035. Until 2035 it has approved 5 GW of wind capacity and the same amount of solar capacity, State.
The installation of a substation of about 4,000 tonnes, the first of three, was completed at the wind site on the coast of Virginia about 27 kilometers from Virginia Beach. The estimated $ 10 billion project, which also includes the installation of 176 wind turbines, goes to the court to finish at the end of 2026, according to the Dominion Energy developer.
Image courtesy of Deme offshore
The energy plan, published in 2019, is being updated to consider state advances in achieving clean energy goals, with a revised version established for publication in the exercise and a period of comments until May 1. Offshore Wind is still part of the new Master Plan, said Eric Miller, executive director of the Murphy Climate Action Office, calling the “actionable and flexible” to help the state achieve clean power goals.
In the meantime, a new state survey made “in co -operation with” a fuel lobby group, shows voters that the need for the need for more electric power plants in New Jersey, but without a clear preference for nuclear or natural options as options, said NJ Politico. However, to continue with a strong local opposition to the Passeris Commission of the Passeric Subserial Commission for a $ 180 million Gas power plant in Newark, as the emergency security copy forced the agency to the final approval of the project, despite the Murphy Okays last year and the State Environmental Agency last month.
In Massachusetts, the Texas Public Policy Conservative submitted a request this month asking the United States Supreme Court to nullify federal approvals for the 62-Turbine vineyard wind project, 800 MW, the first wind-scale wind-scale wind project to obtain these approvals in 2021 after the first delays of Trump. The project has already won four judicial challenges by conservative legal groups on behalf of local fisheries industry opponents.
Trump’s executive order “ recognizes the problems that petitioners raise in this case as significant problems worthy of reexamen, ” says the petition, although he states that Trump’s order does not stop the construction of this project. The petition asks the high court to weigh the impact of his sentence last year in the Runner-Bright In the case of the long doctrine of “Chevron Deferencing”, which requires the judges that differ in the interpretations of the Federal Agency of Ambiguous Federal Laws.
The vineyard wind will end this year, delayed for several months after the closing of work required last summer due to a collapsed turbine leaf. Despite the Trump Anti-Wind’s campaign, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey (D) said in an informative session of the press: “We will continue to support the offshore industry here in Massachusetts.” He said that “it is really important for the jobs … for our economy … to achieve our climate goals and … to establish regional independence when it comes to energy.”
Holding —Se on the court
In Virgínia, the United States Justice Department joined a federal court request by two state -of -the -art conservative groups seeking an extension of time in its demand, which challenged the Federal Environmental Approval of 2.6 GW of Dominion Energy, 176 Virginia Project Turbines (CVOW), the largest United States project now under construction.
The groups, who submitted their challenge in March 2024 to the Washington District Court, DC, received a stay in the procedures until March 24, 2025. They claim damage from the project to the right whale of the North Atlantic in danger, but numerous federal studies and others have quoted vessel collisions and other reasons for death deaths in recent years.
However, Dominion Energy announced this month that Deme Offshore, a key contractor from CVOW, raised the first substations of the project project of almost 4,000 tonnes, 880 MW, which the Public Services Company said that it set an important step in achieving its intended completion goal. Deme’s installation ship, OrionHe executed the elevator and is now installing transition pieces. The firm installed 78 monopile foundations between May and November 2024. The installation of the most foundations and the 14 GW turbines of the Siemens Gamesa manufacturer will continue this year.
The port of Virginia and Skanska also completed the redevelopment of $ 233 million from the Marine Terminal of Portsmouth, including 72 hectares and 1,500 feet of wharf space for staging and wind operations of wind components outside the sea. The manufacture of the towers and leaves of the wind turbine is underway, and the production of Nacelle will begin soon, said Dominion Energy.
The firm announced last month that CVOW is around 50% complete and is considered as an important component of Virginia’s power mix. Republican governor Glenn Youngkin has defended the project, emphasizing the accelerated need for energy in view of the significant growth of data centers: factors that are prevented to prevent the intervention of a administration manifesting more rhetoric than the fact in the wind outside the sea. “Whoever wins this power race will unleash the economic opportunity and, if it cannot reach Virginia, it will go somewhere else,” Youngkin told the attendees of the Megaconference of S&P Global Energy of S&P in Houston on March 12.
“The combination of federal programs, clean energy credits and net energy investment will add $ 37 billion to the Commonwealth economy by 2035,” said representative Jen Kiggans (R-VA.).
“You will not want to be the president who stopped a project that could have prevented the network or interruption of the network or higher rates,” said Timothy Fox, an energy consultant at Clearview Energy. Recharge.
