"The administration is seeking to reevaluate a key permit for Revolution Wind, a $6.2B project that is already generating power for the energy-hungry Northeast."
"After halting construction on offshore wind farms and canceling leases for future projects, the Trump administration just took another step to erode America’s troubled offshore wind industry.
The Interior Department wants to reevaluate a key approval for Revolution Wind — a $6.2 billion project that is already producing power off the coasts of Connecticut and Rhode Island. The wind farm began generating electricity in March, and its developer Ørsted installed the last of 65 turbines in September.
On Friday, Interior asked a federal court for permission to remand the agency’s 2023 approval of a construction and operations plan for the 704-megawatt wind farm. Experts say the move doesn’t immediately affect the project’s activities and is part of a longer legal process that could drag on into early next year.
Even so, the new filing “injects uncertainty into a nearly completed offshore wind project that electricity planners and consumers in the Northeast are counting on,” Hillary Bright, executive director of the offshore wind advocacy group Turn Forward, said in an emailed statement."
