The offshore Revolution Wind project is nearing completion after nearly three years of work based out of the State Pier in New London, Connecticut, officials with Danish wind energy developer \u00d8rsted said Thursday.<\/p>\n
In a presentation on the company\u2019s quarterly financial results, \u00d8rsted Chief Executive Rasmus Errboe said the project is more than 95% complete, with 61 out of 65 turbines fully installed. The four remaining turbines are on track to be installed over the coming months, Errboe added, allowing the project to reach full commercial operation by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n
Revolution Wind is the first offshore wind project contracted to supply electricity to customers in Connecticut. The installation, which is located off the coast of Rhode Island, began sending some power<\/a> to the electric grid in March, when it was about 90% complete.<\/p>\n Once finished, the project will have a peak capacity of 704 megawatts, enough electricity to power roughly 350,000 homes. (While the project is supported financially through power-purchase agreements<\/a> with utilities in Connecticut and Rhode Island, the electricity it generates is distributed throughout the New England electrical grid.)<\/p>\n Get Rhode Map<\/p>\n A weekday briefing from veteran Rhode Island reporters, focused on the things that matter most in the Ocean State.<\/p>\n Assembly work on Revolution Wind is based at the State Pier in New London, where gigantic sections of turbine shafts and blades as long as a football field<\/a> are loaded onto specially-built installation vessels for transport to the offshore work area. One of those vessels, the Wind Scylla<\/a>, was positioned in the vicinity of Revolution Wind project on Thursday, according to marine traffic data.<\/p>\n The pier is also the staging area for two other \u00d8rsted projects, Sunrise Wind and South Fork Wind, both of which are contracted to supply power to Long Island.<\/p>\n Staging for wind turbines is seen at the Connecticut State Pier in New London on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026. Revolution Wind, one of two projects based out of the site, is nearing completion, with more than 95% of components installed.<\/p>\n Errboe also announced on Thursday that work on Sunrise Wind \u2014 the largest of the three projects at 924 megawatts \u2014 had passed the halfway point during the most recent quarter, and is on track for completion in 2027.<\/p>\n Workers have installed 77 of the 84 turbine foundations, and have fully completed 20 turbines along with the all the project\u2019s export cables and offshore converter station, Errboe said.<\/p>\n South Fork Wind \u2014 the first and smallest of the three projects at 124 megawatts \u2014 finished construction in 2024.<\/p>\n Both Revolution Wind and Sunrise Wind faced repeated setbacks over the last year, as President Donald Trump\u2019s administration twice ordered a halts<\/a> to offshore wind projects under development along the Atlantic coast. The administration claimed the projects had the potential to interfere with military radar, despite having undergone extensive reviews by defense officials and the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.<\/p>\n Both times, developers successfully sued to lift the orders and work was allowed to resume.<\/p>\n Revolution Wind is part of a joint partnership between \u00d8rsted and Skyborn Renewables, a German offshore wind developer which purchased a 50% stake<\/a> in the project from Eversource in 2024<\/p>\n In its earnings report on Thursday, \u00d8rsted reported profits of 5.4 billion Danish krone (equivalent to roughly $832 million), slightly beating expectations, according to Reuters<\/a>. Overall, the company said its offshore wind installations generated 11.2 terawatt hours of electricity around the world in the first half of 2026.<\/p>\n However, \u00d8rsted also reported a non-cash impairment loss of 1.2 billion krone ($126 million) on its U.S. projects due to rising interest rates.<\/p>\n \u201cIt continues to be a key priority for us to deliver on our construction portfolio, and we\u2019re very pleased with the milestones we\u2019ve reached this past quarter,\u201d Errboe said in a statement. \u201cWe continue to progress according to schedule and within planned costs across all projects.\u201d<\/p>\n John Moritz<\/a> covers energy and the environment for Connecticut Mirror<\/a>, a beat that has taken him from wind farms off the coast of Block Island to foraging for mushrooms in the Litchfield Hills and many places in between. He was previously a statewide reporter for the Hearst Connecticut Media Group and before that, he covered politics for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock. A native of Norwalk, John earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in journalism and political science from Temple University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The offshore Revolution Wind project is nearing completion after nearly three years of work based out of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[285],"tags":[829,1642,913,2072,380,287,928,13233,2512],"class_list":["post-147172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orsted","tag-clean-energy","tag-climate","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-offshore-wind","tag-orsted","tag-renewable-energy","tag-turbines","tag-wind-farm"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117110471605484099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}