Overview
- Revolution Wind LLC filed a supplemental complaint in U.S. District Court in Washington and will seek a preliminary injunction to lift the Dec. 22 lease suspension.
- The 704 MW project off Rhode Island is about 87% built, with 58 of 65 turbines installed, and had been slated to begin delivering power to more than 350,000 homes this month.
- The Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management ordered construction to pause while agencies review unspecified national security concerns, with prior references to potential radar interference.
- Orsted argues the suspension is unlawful, noting a similar August 2025 stop-work order was overturned, and that roughly $5 billion has already been spent or committed to the joint venture with Skyborn Renewables.
- The halt affects several major U.S. offshore wind projects under construction, and Dominion Energy has separately sued to block the stop-work order on its Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project.