Interior Department
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Department of the Interior has launched an overhaul of all regulations pertaining to wind generation in U.S. waters.
The Department of the Interior is moving to cancel the Lava Ridge Wind Project, a gigawatt-scale wind farm proposed on thousands of acres of federal land in Idaho.
The Trump administration has taken further steps to thwart renewable energy development, adding new directives limiting wind and solar development on federal land and at sea.
The Department of the Interior on July 29 announced a four-pronged review that continues the president’s efforts to limit some types of renewable energy.
Large-scale solar and wind projects are facing growing local resistance along with federal policy changes.
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