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Ed. note: The state-capable wind and solar industry on the grid and the solar industry are down after a political business cycle. The apprenticeship for sustainable entrepreneurship is to satisfy the underlying consumer demand and not to relate to special favor from temporary political majorities.
Last Friday, the Daily Caller News Foundation broke an exclusive story that the United States had stopped building the Offshore Revolution Wind Farm Project. The article “Trump Admin kills a massive offshore wind project”, announced the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (Ministry of the Interior.
Revolution Wind is a 704-megawatts (MW), 65 turbine wind project, which is 15 miles south of the port of Rhode Islands Point Judith and 32 miles southwest of Martha’s Vineyard. The capacity was contractually under 20-year-old power re-agreements against pension companies in Massachusetts (304 MW) and Rhode Island (400 MW).
A second project (Revolution Wind 2) was rejected by Rhode Island Energy (PPL Corporation) and Rhode Island’s public utilities commission and the US Ministry of Energy as too expensive.
The project is located in the Federal Leasing Area (OCS-A 0486), which the developer Ørsted has acquired when buying Deepwater Wind LLC, the developer of the Block Island Wind Farm, and owner of various offshore wind rental contracts for $ 510 million.
The locations of important offshore wind projects.
Construction began in 2023 with the installation of the first offshore wind turbine in September 2024. Completion and the operation of the project are planned in early 2026. Ørsted reported on Friday evening that the project was 80 percent installed with 45 out of 65 wind turbines. The project was celebrated as the first offshore wind project for multi-state state in the United States.
The order of the Doi director was granted by Matthew Giacoma, reigning director. Compare and contrast his letter with the one that was exhibited by Walter Cruickshank on April 16, 2025, and order the interruption of the Empire Wind.
Doi letters: Empire State vs. Revolution Wind
In the Empire wind-stop work order, the Doi quoted as a reason to freeze the work
So that it can secure time to fix feedback, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), about the environmental analyzes for this project. Boem received this and other feedback on Empire Wind as an overgrowth of the review that the department with offshore wind projects is employed in connection with offshore wind projects.
In contrast, the revolution states the winding order:
… Boem tries to remove concerns in connection with the protection of the United States’s national security interests and the prevention of interventions with adequate uses of the exclusive economic zone, the high seas and the territorial seas, as described in this sub -section of OCSLA.
There are two relevant facts and a guess.
Fact 1: The fact that we know about the arrangement of the windstop work of Empire is that the DOI published a 36-page study in connection with its stop work decision in response to freedom of information. The report was entitled “Screening analysis: a summary of the record for the Empire Wind Project-NMFS fishing resources”. Twenty of seven of the pages were reduced exclusively, a privilege due to the advisory character of the report and its role in the review process carried out at that time. The public has learned that government agencies are entitled to protect internal studies from publication until the final reviews have been completed.
Fact 2: With regard to the doi stop work order for revolution wind, the problem is compliance with the provisions of the outer continent shelf act (OCSLA). Consulting company Planet A* Strategies The report was called “Canceling offshore wind lease contracts” with a document of “Foreign Continentalschelland Act non-compliance in the offshore wind turbine leasing and permissible programs”. Your report was completed in early May and the results were presented to the DOI.
assumption: The assumption refers to the reported agreement between the Trump administration and the New York governor Kathy Hochul for their support in the granting of previously blocked permits, which enable the construction of two natural gas pipelines to the state. This would increase the supply of both New York and for New England, both of which would not increase the natural gas supply for the generation of electricity in the winter months in which the gas is redirected to home heating. This lack causes the electricity prices of winter in the region much higher than in the summer months.
Sunrise wind next?
At the time of the arrangement of the Empire Wind-Stop Work workstation in April, I predicted that summer would be an interesting time for the legal activity of offshore wind. So far so true. For the legal activity, a petition was recently sent to the Interior Minister Doug Burgum, in which the approval of Sunrise Wind, a 924 MW, 84 turbine project, was examined again. It is about 19 miles south of the Martha vineyard, 30 miles east of Montauk Point, Long Island and 17 miles from Rhode Island’s Block Island. This is another Ørsted project.
The approval process for Sunrise Wind is questioned by the former members of the Rhode Island Fishermen’s Advisory Board (FAB), which was founded according to legal provisions that regulate the review and approval of offshore wind projects of the State for Environmental Management of the State that affect the waters of the state.
The complaint shows
… Misrue of § 8 (p) (4) of OCSLA and Falcheau of NEPA (National Environmental Protection Act), confirm the illegal effects on the fishing industry, which were ignored when the project was admitted, and testify to the environmental impact that was ignored when the project is permitted and all facilities of the project.
Look ahead
In view of the Ørsted emergency, there is a lot with the above -mentioned projects that attempt to collect additional capital of 9.4 billion US dollars to support its ongoing developments.
Offshore wind developers speak about violations of the legal approval process, the other legitimate users of the ocean divided with the wind project continues to harm and continue to harm. When summer decreases, the legal battles are heated over offshore wind.
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