{"id":45263,"date":"2026-03-21T13:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/45263\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T13:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:15:12","slug":"is-boosting-r-i-s-reliance-on-wind-power-crucial-to-lowering-local-energy-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/45263\/","title":{"rendered":"Is boosting R.I.\u2019s reliance on wind power crucial to lowering local energy costs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.pbn.com\/2026\/03\/AP26073074899715.jpg\" data-caption=\"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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP26073074899715-696x464.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Trump Offshore Wind\"\/><\/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<p>Revolution Wind is sending power to New England\u2019s electric grid, the developer said March 13.<\/p>\n<p>Orsted A\/S says the wind farm, located 15 miles off Rhode Island\u2019s coast,\u00a0will become fully operational in the coming weeks. 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.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press reported that Revolution Wind was one of five East Coast offshore wind projects the Trump administration halted construction on days before Christmas, citing national security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Developers and states sued, and federal judges allowed all five to resume construction, concluding that the government did not show that the national security risk was so imminent that construction must halt.<\/p>\n<p>But President Donald Trump does not support offshore wind development and has signed executive orders aimed at boosting oil, gas and coal.<\/p>\n<p>Rhode Island Energy in November proposed raising distribution rates for the first time since 2017. The utility cited costs rising significantly due to inflation, supply chain challenges and evolving regulatory requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE LOGO for the Danish company Orsted is displayed on the exterior of the Avedore Power Station in&hellip;\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":[18460,287,8250,2006,3941],"class_list":["post-45263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orsted","tag-global-infrastructure-partners","tag-orsted","tag-orsted-a-s","tag-revolution-wind","tag-skyborn-renewables"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116267353534152976","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45263","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=45263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45263\/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=45263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}