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One of the wind farms blocked by the Trump administration achieves full power and second completes construction; but TotalEnergies is to withdraw from US offshore wind
25/3/2026
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Revolution Wind, one of the US wind farms under construction which fell foul of the Trump administration has announced first electricity; a second, similarly-contested wind farm, Vineyard Wind, has reportedly completed construction. However, despite such positive news, the US wind sector was dealt a blow earlier this week with TotalEnergies announcing it will no longer develop offshore wind projects in the country.
Revolution Wind, a 704 MW offshore wind energy project, will deliver power under fixed-price, 20-year agreements with energy utilities in Rhode Island and Connecticut. Construction was paused from summer 2025 to 12 January 2026. The project is a 50:50 joint venture between Ørsted and Skyborn Renewables.
Vineyard Wind 1 is an 806 MW offshore wind energy project offshore Massachusetts. It consists of 62 GE Haliade-X turbines of 13MW. Also paused last summer, it restarted construction in January 2026.
Construction continues on three other wind farms that had been blocked over the past year by the Trump administration, latterly on national security grounds, and formerly on an executive order. All three projects were disputed in the courts.
Ørsted’s Sunrise Wind project restarted construction in February. It has a 25-year power purchase agreement to deliver 924 MW to New York State.
Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, consisting of 176 turbines, is reported to be 70% complete. In October 2025, all monopile foundations were installed.
Empire Wind 1 is an 810 MW wind farm offshore Long Island supplying power to New York City. The project, consisting of 54 Vestas turbines, restarted work this January, at which point it was estimated as more than 60% complete.
In response, trade association Oceantic Network said: ‘US offshore wind continues to power forward. With the third US project now delivering desperately-needed electricity to the grid – and lowering winter energy bills for millions of Americans – the domestic offshore wind industry is demonstrating its true potential every day. The burgeoning, 40-state American supply chain supported installation across five different projects simultaneously – a feat rivalled by few other markets – while creating more than 12,000 jobs and driving $25bn of American investments flowing directly into our shipyards, ports, and manufacturing centres.’
TotalEnergies to pull out of US offshore wind
In a surprise announcement, the US wind sector was dealt a blow earlier this week with TotalEnergies announcing it will no longer develop offshore wind projects in the country. The company has signed settlement agreements with the US Department of the Interior (DOI) to relinquish its Carolina Long Bay lease and its New York Bight lease, both awarded in 2022, along with its partners. As a result, TotalEnergies will no longer develop offshore wind projects in the US.
TotalEnergies reports that studies on the two leases had shown that ‘offshore wind developments in the US, unlike those in Europe, are costly and might have a negative impact on power affordability for US consumers’. It added: ‘Since other technologies are available to meet the growing demand for electricity in the US in a more affordable way, TotalEnergies considers there is no need to allocate capital to this technology in the US.’
Patrick Pouyanné, TotalEnergies CEO, comments: ‘TotalEnergies is pleased to sign these settlement agreements with the DOI and to support the Administration’s energy policy. Considering that the development of offshore wind projects is not in the country’s interest, we have decided to renounce offshore wind development in the United States, in exchange for the reimbursement of the lease fees.
TotalEnergies says it plans to reinvest the refunded lease fees to finance the construction of the 29mn tonne Rio Grande LNG plant and the development of the company’s oil and gas activities, ‘to support the development of US gas production and export’.
‘These investments will contribute to supplying Europe with much-needed LNG from the US and provide gas for US data centre development. We believe this is a more efficient use of capital in the United States,’ said a company statement.
TotalEnergies also signed recently a letter of intent with Glenfarne, lead developer of the Alaska LNG project, for the long-term offtake of 2mn t/y of LNG over 20 years, subject to the project’s final investment decision. Alaska LNG will have a total capacity of 20mn t/y, with direct access to Asia, the world’s largest LNG market.
