{"id":33717,"date":"2025-12-22T23:14:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/trump-administration-halts-all-large-scale-offshore-wind-projects-under-construction-in-us\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T23:14:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:14:19","slug":"trump-administration-halts-all-large-scale-offshore-wind-projects-under-construction-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/trump-administration-halts-all-large-scale-offshore-wind-projects-under-construction-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration halts all large-scale offshore wind projects under construction in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"text-to-speech\">\n    <button class=\"text-to-speech__button button\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"text-to-speech__button__icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/static\/img\/play.svg?500116090725\" alt=\"-\"><br \/>\n        Listen to the article<br \/>\n        <span class=\"text-to-speech__button__audio-length\">4 min<\/span><br \/>\n    <\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"text-to-speech__controls\">\n        <audio controls=\"\" class=\"js-text-to-speech\" preload=\"none\"><source src=\"https:\/\/text-to-speech.divecdn.com\/newspost\/808534\/2025-12-22_16.45.39\/trump-halts-offshore-wind-projects-interior-burgum.wav\" type=\"audio\/mp3\"><\/source><\/audio><\/p>\n<div class=\"text-to-speech__controls__text\">\n            This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\">feedback<\/a>.\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The Department of the Interior <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/pressreleases\/trump-administration-protects-us-national-security-pausing-offshore-wind-leases\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>announced Monday<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span><span><span><span><span> that it is pausing the leases for \u201c<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>all large-scale offshore wind projects under construction\u201d in the United States <span><span><span><span><span><span>due to \u201cnational security risks\u201d identified in \u201crecently completed classified reports.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The action affects five major offshore wind farms under development in federal waters off the East Coast: the largest U.S. project,\u00a0the 2.6-GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind; the 800-MW Vineyard Wind 1 offshore Massachussetts; the 700-MW Revolution Wind offshore Rhode Island; and the 2-GW Empire Wind and 924-MW Sunrise Wind, both offshore New York.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Interior said the pause will give it, along with the Defense Department and \u201cother relevant government agencies, time to work with leaseholders and state partners to assess the possibility of mitigating the national security risks posed by these projects.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in the release that the projects posed risks due to \u201cthe rapid evolution of the relevant adversary technologies, and the vulnerabilities created by large-scale offshore wind projects with proximity near our east coast population centers.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The release went on to say that \u201cmassive turbine blades and the highly reflective towers\u201d create radar interference that \u201cobscures legitimate moving targets and generates false targets in the vicinity of the wind projects.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>But in a <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecretaryBurgum\/status\/2003094666040787213\">post on X<\/a>, Burgum suggested factors other than national security played into the decision.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>\u201cONE natural gas pipeline supplies as much energy as these 5 projects COMBINED,\u201d Burgum tweeted, calling offshore wind \u201c<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>expensive, unreliable,\u201d and \u201cheavily subsidized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump is \u201cbringing common sense back to energy policy &amp; putting security FIRST!,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>In a Monday release responding to the announcement, Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind owner and developer Dominion Energy said the project is &#8220;essential for American national security and meeting Virginia\u2019s dramatically growing energy needs, the fastest growth in America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Virginia\u2019s demand growth \u201cis driven by the need to provide reliable power to many of America\u2019s most important war fighting installations, the world\u2019s largest warship manufacturer, and the largest concentration of data centers on the planet as well as the leading edge of the AI revolution,&#8221; Dominion said.<\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind is expected to come <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitydive.com\/news\/dominion-energy-offshore-wind-earnings\/804617\/\" target=\"_blank\">fully online in late 2026<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Vineyard Wind 1, a joint venture from Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners and Avangrid, is slated to do so in mid-2026 after <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitydive.com\/news\/texas-think-tank-petitions-to-revoke-permits-for-vineyard-wind-1-project-of\/756786\/\" target=\"_blank\">a series of delays<\/a>. Revolution Wind, an \u00d8rsted and Global Infrastructure Partners joint venture which was previously delayed by a <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitydive.com\/news\/revolution-wind-orsted-offshore-wind-stop-work-trump-construction\/760803\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>stop-work order<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span><span><span><span><span> from the Trump administration, should be completed in the second half of 2026.\u00a0Both Sunrise Wind, owned by \u00d8rsted, and Empire Wind, owned by Equinor,\u00a0are expected to begin operating in 2027.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>A coalition of conservative groups filed a lawsuit against the Department of the Interior in 2024 over the development of Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind. The two parties in the suit said in a Wednesday joint filing that \u201cDOI plans to conduct a review in which it will consider if [a lease] remand would be appropriate\u201d and requested that a stay in the case be granted until Feb. 2.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The filing said that counsel for Dominion Energy consented to the stay but did not \u201cconcede the propriety\u201d of any review or remand of the project\u2019s lease.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"editor-note\">\n<p>Editor&#8217;s note: This story has been updated to include a quote from Dominion Energy.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/news\/trump-halts-offshore-wind-projects-interior-burgum\/808534\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The &#8230; <a title=\"Trump administration halts all large-scale offshore wind projects under construction in US\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/trump-administration-halts-all-large-scale-offshore-wind-projects-under-construction-in-us\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump administration halts all large-scale offshore wind projects under construction in US\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[457],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-dive","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}