{"id":40126,"date":"2026-03-14T15:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T15:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/40126\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T15:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T15:41:07","slug":"revolution-wind-starts-sending-power-to-the-new-england-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/40126\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolution Wind starts sending power to the New England grid"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>THE LOGO for the Danish company Orsted is displayed on the exterior of the Avedore Power Station in Hvidovre, Copenhagen. The Danish company Orsted said on Friday that Revolution Wind is now generating power and will scale up in the weeks ahead until it is fully operational.\u00a0\/ SCANPIX VIA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/p>\n

Revolution Wind has begun sending power to New England\u2019s electric grid, the developer said Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Danish company Orsted A\/S said the wind farm, located 15 miles southwest of Point Judith, is now generating power and will scale up in the weeks ahead until it is fully operational. Orsted is building Revolution Wind with Global Infrastructure Partners\u2019 Skyborn Renewables to provide electricity for Rhode Island and Connecticut, enough to power more than 350,000 homes and businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s milestone marks an important step forward for Rhode Island\u2019s energy future. Offshore wind is part of our state\u2019s all-of-the-above energy strategy, one that strengthens our energy supply and supports long-term reliability for residents and businesses,\u201d Gov. Daniel J. McKee said in a statement Friday. \u201cWe will see this project through to the end for the benefit of\u00a0Rhode Island\u2019s\u00a0families, workers, and businesses. This is our energy, our future, and we will get it done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Revolution Wind was one of five major East Coast offshore wind projects the Trump administration\u00a0halted construction on days before Christmas, citing national security concerns.\u00a0Developers and states sued, and federal judges allowed\u00a0all five to resume construction,\u00a0essentially concluding\u00a0that the government did not show that the national security risk was so imminent that construction must halt.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Biden administration\u00a0sought to ramp up offshore wind\u00a0as a climate change solution.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But President Donald Trump, who\u00a0often talks about his hatred of wind power, has said his goal is to not let any \u201cwindmills\u201d be built. He has signed\u00a0a\u00a0spate of executive orders\u00a0aimed at boosting oil, gas\u00a0and coal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said Friday night that Trump \u201creversed course on Joe Biden\u2019s costly green energy agenda that gave preferential treatment to intermittent, unreliable energy sources and instead is aggressively unleashing reliable and affordable energy sources to lower energy bills, improve our grid stability and protect our national security.\u201d Rogers added in a statement to AP that the administration \u201clooks forward to ultimate victory on this issue.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Orsted said that at a time of growing energy demand, Revolution Wind will provide price certainty and stability, citing a\u00a0preliminary analysis by the state of Connecticut\u00a0that estimates it will lower wholesale energy costs by about $500 million per year by 2028.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cRevolution Wind is adding affordable, reliable American-made energy to New England\u2019s grid, helping to meet growing energy demand and lower consumer costs,\u201d Amanda Dasch, chief development officer at Orsted, said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chris Kearns, acting commissioner of the R.I. Office of Energy Resources, called the first power milestone a \u201csignificant moment for the state\u2019s clean energy landscape.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Orsted began construction in 2024 about 15 miles south of the Rhode Island coast. The wind farm has 65 of the 11-megawatt Siemens Gamesa turbines, and more than 1,000 people have been working on it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Connecticut Rep. Joe Courtney, a Democrat, said that because this wind energy is directly transmitted off the New England coast, \u201cits price will not be at the mercy of uncertain global energy markets.\u201d The Iran war is\u00a0disrupting world energy supplies, the global economy and international travel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Courtney also said Friday\u2019s milestone \u201cnever would have happened without talented Connecticut building trades workers, who persevered through the Trump administration\u2019s illegal halt work orders.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The order in December was the second time the administration halted construction on Revolution Wind. Work was previously\u00a0paused Aug. 22\u00a0over national security concerns. A month\u00a0later\u00a0a federal judge ruled the project could resume.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE LOGO for the Danish company Orsted is displayed on the exterior of the Avedore Power Station in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[285],"tags":[22769,4961,22770,184,22771,18460,22772,380,287,8250,22773,2006,4962,3941,22774,2512],"class_list":["post-40126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orsted","tag-amanda-dasch","tag-connecticut","tag-daniel-j-mckee","tag-donald-trump","tag-east-coast","tag-global-infrastructure-partners","tag-joe-courtney","tag-offshore-wind","tag-orsted","tag-orsted-a-s","tag-r-i-office-of-energy-resources","tag-revolution-wind","tag-rhode-island","tag-skyborn-renewables","tag-taylor-rogers","tag-wind-farm"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116228291640865372","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40126","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=40126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}