Overview
- Revolution Wind LLC, a joint venture of Ørsted and Skyborn Renewables, filed suit on January 2 seeking a court order to resume work.
- The Interior Department suspended lease contracts on December 22 for five offshore wind projects, citing national-security risks.
- Ørsted says Revolution Wind is about 87 percent complete and had been expected to start delivering power in January 2026.
- The project is a roughly $5 billion installation intended to supply electricity to densely populated East Coast markets.
- The industry group NOIA warns the halt could undermine grid reliability for Virginia customers, including military bases and AI data centers, and says the Pentagon raised no objections during approvals.