Many MindedRevolution Wind reaches full output, finishing a 704-MW project under federal fire
Ørsted announced on Thursday, 5 November 2026, that Revolution Wind, off Connecticut and Rhode Island, is fully operational. The 704-megawatt project began generating at full capacity in October 2026, after producing smaller amounts of power from spring. Its last of 65 turbines went up in September. The project cost $6.2 billion.
It is the third US utility-scale offshore wind farm to reach full commercial operation, after South Fork Wind in New York and Vineyard Wind in Massachusetts. Its power is sold to three utilities: Rhode Island Energy, Eversource Energy and United Illuminating. Ørsted says the output can power the equivalent of more than 350,000 New England homes; that figure is the company's own.
The significance is that it was finished at all. In August 2025 the Interior Department issued a stop-work order citing unspecified national security threats, and a federal judge threw it out a month later. In late December 2025 the administration issued new stop-work orders to all five offshore wind projects under construction, and judges struck them down one by one. Large new clean generation near Northeast demand centers adds supply to the regional grid. Unnamed experts say it will help keep utility bills in check, but that is a claim, not a measured result.
The outlook is still clouded. Before Trump's second term, BloombergNEF projected 39 GW of US offshore wind by 2035; it now expects 5.9 GW. In October 2026 the Interior Department asked a federal court for permission to reevaluate its 2023 approval of Revolution Wind's construction and operations plan. That did not immediately affect project activity, but experts say it adds uncertainty. Next up is Sunrise Wind off Long Island, a 924-MW project with all turbine foundations installed, expected to be fully operational in the second half of 2027.
Source: Canary Media