Virginia offshore wind developer sues over Trump administration order halting initiatives | EUROtoday

The builders of a Virginia offshore wind mission are asking a federal choose to dam a Trump administration order that halted building of their mission, together with 4 others, over nationwide safety issues.

Dominion Energy Virginia mentioned in its lawsuit filed late Tuesday that the federal government’s order is “arbitrary and capricious” and unconstitutional. The Richmond-based firm is creating Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, a mission it says is crucial to fulfill dramatically rising power wants pushed by dozens of recent knowledge facilities.

The Interior Department didn’t element the safety issues in blocking the 5 initiatives on Monday. In a letter to mission builders, Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management set a 90-day interval — and probably longer — “to determine whether the national security threats posed by this project can be adequately mitigated.”

The different initiatives are the Vineyard Wind mission beneath building in Massachusetts, Revolution Wind in Rhode Island and Connecticut and two initiatives in New York: Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind. Democratic governors in these states have vowed to combat the order, the most recent motion by the Trump administration to hobble offshore wind in its push towards renewable power sources.

Dominion’s mission has been beneath building since early 2024 and was scheduled to return on-line early subsequent 12 months, offering sufficient power to energy about 660,000 properties. The firm mentioned the delay was costing it greater than $5 million a day in losses solely for the ships utilized in round the clock building, and that clients or the corporate would finally bear the price.

Dominion known as this week’s order “the latest in a series of irrational agency actions attacking offshore wind and then doubling down when those actions are found unlawful.”

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management did not instantly reply to an e mail in search of remark.

U.S. District Judge Jamar Walker set a listening to for two p.m. Monday on Dominion’s request for a brief restraining order.

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