Overview

• U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington issued an injunction lifting the government’s August construction stop on Revolution Wind.
• He criticized the administration’s late explanations as arbitrary and warned that missed deadlines could imperil the entire project.
• The court concluded Ørsted faced irreparable harm, with roughly $5 billion already at stake.
• Ørsted said it will resume work as quickly as possible and continue engaging with U.S. officials.
• The decision is a setback for the administration’s effort to scale back renewables, with the project about 24 kilometers off Rhode Island designed to power roughly 350,000 homes.