Offshore Wind Power
The Trump administration is moving to close the door on U.S. offshore wind development by remanding approvals for all projects not already under construction.
ACP reported a drop in the pipeline of new projects as federal policies shifted this year, but installations have yet to be impacted by those changes.
In an Aug. 29 filing in federal court in Washington, D.C., the Department of the Interior said it intends to reconsider its approval of the construction and operations plan for SouthCoast Wind off the New England coast.
The U.S. Department of Transportation has terminated $679 million in funding commitments for a dozen port and shoreline infrastructure projects planned to serve the offshore wind sector.
The addition of 3,500 MW of offshore wind capacity would have reduced ISO-NE energy market costs by about $400 million over the past winter, according to a recent study by Daymark Energy Advisors.
ISO-NE warned any significant delay of the Revolution Wind project will increase risk to the reliability of the New England grid and undermine the region’s economy.
The Trump administration has slapped Ørsted with a stop-work order on Revolution Wind, a 704-MW project off the New England coast that is 80% complete.
The work was designed to help connect the New Jersey offshore wind projects to the grid.
The Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources will delay its next offshore wind solicitation until “at least 2026” due to uncertainty around federal permitting, tax credits and tariffs.
Ørsted is moving to raise as much as $9.33 billion on its own to finish building the Sunrise Wind project off the New York coast.
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