Among the many bad and evil things that Trump did when he got into office for the second time, was to make an executive order targeting wind and solar subsidies. This not only had the effect of blocking money to new projects, but also to cancel subsidies already granted.
This led Revolution Wind, a 50/50 joint venture between Global Infrastructure Partners’ Skyborn Renewables and Ørsted A/S, and Sunrise Wind LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ørsted A/S, to sue the US Administration, with predictable results. Ørsted A/S is a Danish company.
Sunrise Wind resumes construction, fifth ruling overturned
A federal judge for D.C. District Court has allowed Sunrise Wind to resume work after granting a preliminary injunction against the administration’s lease suspension and construction pause issued December 22, 2025.
D.C District Judge Lamberth ordered the action to be “arbitrary and capricious” after having reviewed classified information and agreed that irreparable harm standards were met given the loss of specialized vessels that would cause a “cascade of delays” preventing the project from meeting its obligations.Previously, Judge Lamberth ruled in favor of Revolution Wind’s construction resumption twice, most recently under the same lease suspension and stop construction order affecting Sunrise Wind, and again in September 2025 when the federal administration issued a stop work order directly for Revolution Wind. The administration referenced undisclosed “national security concerns” that arose from a recent classified Department of War study alleging that turbine structures cause interference with military radar systems.
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Sunrise Wind is 45% complete and set to provide 924 MW of power generation to New York. The project’s supply chain stretches across 34 states and has driven more than $1.9 billion worth of investments while supporting more than 4,290 American jobs across the construction, operations, shipbuilding, and manufacturing sectors. Ten shipyards in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Texas built or retrofitted the more than 16 vessels operating at the site. Most notably, the first U.S.-built subsea rock installation vessel was constructed at Hanwha Philly Shipyard.
The above article mentions that the Judge had previously ruled in favor of Revolution Wind.
Ørsted A/S put out a press release a couple of weeks ago, stating Revolution Wind begins delivering power to New England
Revolution Wind, LLC, a 50/50 joint venture between Global Infrastructure Partners’ Skyborn Renewables and Ørsted, announced today that the Revolution Wind project has started delivering power to New England’s electric grid, strengthening the region’s power supply and helping reduce costs for consumers.
Revolution Wind, a 704 MW offshore wind energy project, is expected to supply enough electricity to power more than 350,000 homes and businesses. The project will deliver power under fixed-price, 20-year agreements with energy utilities in Rhode Island and Connecticut, providing price certainty and stability for consumers.
So in spite of the best effort of the Trump administration, US households are starting to get wind energy, with more to come as other projects finishes.
This is good news. I’m hoping there are more reversals of the administration’s ridiculous anti-green energy actions to come. Something tells me, however that all of these cases will wind up at the Supreme Court where nothing much good happens.
I was recently privileged to spend some time in China with work. I took a train north from Shanghai.
I will make the following engineering estimate: over the course of that journey, I saw more wind turbines than there I’ve seen before in my life, and more solar panels than I’ve seen before in my life. It looks very much as though the Chinese government are not constrained, as are the US and other western governments such as my own UK government, by such niggling annoyances as planning rules or the capital cost of projects. They say “solar power, there”, and solar power is installed there, on a scale I’ve never seen before. They say “wind power here”, and wind turbines go up – hundreds of them. 15-20 years ago I was worried about the environmental impact of China because news coming out of their suggested they were building new coal-fired power stations the size of the one my uncle had worked at – one of the largest in the UK – at a rate of one a WEEK. While they still have those stations, it’s apparent they’ve started to pivot to renewables, and they’re not messing about with a GW here and a GW there.
Speaking as someone working in engineering in a western economy, it’s actually intimidating and depressing. Our manufacturing infrastructure is aging out, theirs is mostly just coming on line and/or growing, and many areas they’re skipping the testing-it-out steps and going straight for massive capacity.
I question whether the US and Europe are even equipped to compete. There seems to me a completely delusional mindset in the west, that we should advance tentatively (if at all).