Offshore Wind Hits Important Milestones in New England
Why it matters: Clean offshore wind now powers hundreds of thousands, cutting costs and bolstering grid reliability.
- Vineyard Wind completed construction, poised to power >400,000 Massachusetts homes and helped avert blackouts during winter storm Fern.
- Revolution Wind started delivering electricity, sufficient for 350,000 homes in Connecticut and Rhode Island, after court‑overturned Trump stop‑work orders.
- Sierra Club praised the projects as a “historic moment,” linking them to lower energy prices, grid resilience, and jobs.
- Courts played a decisive role, overturning two 2025 Trump administration stop‑work orders that had halted progress.
New England’s offshore wind sector hit a double milestone as Vineyard Wind finished construction and Revolution Wind began feeding power into the grid, delivering clean electricity to over 750,000 homes while overcoming Trump‑era legal roadblocks.
