Overview
- A Massachusetts judge refused to lift a preliminary injunction that forces GE Vernova to keep working on the 806 MW, 62-turbine Vineyard Wind project and denied GE’s request to send the dispute to arbitration.
- The judge said nothing material had changed since April and highlighted GE’s proprietary expertise and the presence of more than 200 GE employees and subcontractors as reasons the company cannot be allowed to stop servicing the turbines.
- Vineyard Wind has withheld roughly $360 million from GE Renewables US LLC after a 2024 turbine blade collapsed off Nantucket, a failure that exposed a manufacturing flaw and led to widespread blade replacements and years of delay.
- GE has appealed the injunction and says it has contractual rights to terminate for non-payment and that public statements showing the farm is largely complete mean it would not be irreparably harmed by leaving.
- The project began initial operations but remains dependent on GE’s technical work to reach full capacity, leaving its commercial viability and financing at risk if the supplier exits before repairs and commissioning are finished.