South Fork Wind

Experts say the move doesn't immediately affect the project's activities and is part part of a longer legal process that could drag on into early next year.

Even so, the new filing injects uncertainty into a nearly completed offshore wind project that electricity planners and consumers in the Northeast are counting on.

At full operation, Revolution Wind will generate enough clean electricity to power 350,000 homes and is expected to play an important role in reducing the region's grid stress during heat waves and winter cold spells.

The Trump administration's October 9th filing stems from an ongoing lawsuit filed by the anti-wind group Green Oceans.

which bills itself as a grassroots organization bullshit dedicated to preserving ocean health.

In January 2024, the Rhode Island-based group challenged Interior's final approvals of both Revolution Wind and Orsted's other U.S. offshore wind project, South Fork Wind, which came online in early 2024.

Green Ocean claims that the federal government shortcut regulatory procedures and violated environmental protection laws by approving the two projects.

Suddenly Trump is pretending to care about the environment.

Workers at the Vineyard Wind Project off the coast of Massachusetts have now installed 60 out of the 62 planned turbines.

Energy firm Iberdrola says 50 of those have been cleared to start generating power already, making Vineyard Wind, for the time being, the largest offshore wind farm in the United States, overtaking South Fork and its 12 turbines.

The final two turbines of the 800 megawatt Massachusetts site could be installed this week already.

That's it for your updates today.

early Saturday taking a route that passed Plum Island and later Block and Road Islands, where the nation's first five offshore turbines began operating in 2016.

The main attraction was South Fork Wind.

It's the 12-turbine array 35 miles off Montauk that has been producing power to the east end of Long Island.

since 2023, powering tens of thousands of homes year-round, but mostly in winter.

Revolution Wind kept building.

And now it joins South Fork Wind and Vineyard Wind as the third complete large-scale offshore wind farm in the U.S. And what about those offshore wind farms? Well, during winter storm Fern, Vineyard Wind showed up big for New England.

And during the July heat wave here, Offshore wind kept oil-burning peakers pretty quiet.

So here's what matters.