Overview
- Vineyard Wind completed offshore construction Friday with the installation of its final blades and continues sending some electricity to the New England grid while moving toward full commercial operation.
- Ørsted and Skyborn Renewables said Revolution Wind has begun generating for Rhode Island and Connecticut and will ramp output in the coming weeks toward full commissioning later in 2026.
- Both projects were paused by the Trump administration over stated national security concerns, then restarted after federal judges concluded the government had not shown an imminent threat that required work to stop.
- At full output, the 62-turbine Vineyard Wind (~800 MW) and the 65-turbine, 704 MW Revolution Wind are expected to provide roughly 1,500 MW combined, with Connecticut estimating Revolution Wind alone could lower wholesale costs by about $500 million annually by 2028.
- The industry’s progress comes despite higher costs and financing pressures that triggered write-downs and cancellations of other East Coast projects, and after a 2024 Vineyard Wind blade failure led GE Vernova to pay $10.5 million to compensate Nantucket businesses.