Denmark-based energy developer Ørsted announced that a U.S. District Court has issued a preliminary injunction against an order by the Trump administration to halt work on Revolution Wind, a nearly complete multi-billion dollar offshore wind project off the coast of Rhode Island, enabling work on the project to resume.
Revolution Wind is a 50/50 joint venture between Ørsted and BlackRock’s infrastructure investment unit Global Infrastructure Partners’ Skyborn Renewables. Construction on the project began in 2023, and it is now 87% complete, according to Ørsted. The 704 MW project is expected to provide power to more than 350,000 homes in 2026 through 20-year power purchase agreements (PPAs) with utilities in Connecticut and Rhode Island.
The court ruling follows the filing of a complaint by Revolution Wind to the District Court, after the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) paused the leases for all large-scale offshore wind projects under construction in the U.S., citing “national security risks” potentially resulting from the projects, freezing the development of five major projects along the U.S. east coast – including Revolution Wind – representing nearly 6 GW of energy, that were set to enter commercial operation over the next 2 years. Several other developers of the other projects have also launched legal action against the order, including Equinor and Dominion Energy.
The government order forms the latest in a series of moves by the Trump administration to stop the development of renewable energy projects, starting with a Presidential Memorandum signed by Trump on his first day in office, indefinitely halting all federal approvals for wind energy projects. The order was recently struck down by a U.S. federal court, which ruled that it was “arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law.”
The suspension order marked the second attempt by the Trump administration to stop the Revolution Wind project, following an order in August 2025 by BOEM to halt the construction of the project.
According to Ørsted, the injunction will allow the project to immediately restart activities, while the underlying lawsuits for both BOEM orders attempting to halt the project progress.
In a statement released after the court’s injunction, Ørsted said:
“The Project will resume construction work as soon as possible, with safety as the top priority, and to deliver affordable, reliable power to the Northeast.”
Ørsted added that “Revolution Wind will determine how best it may be possible to work with the US Administration to achieve an expeditious and durable resolution.”
