Vineyard Wind 1 completes all 62 turbines at 800 MW
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- Vineyard Wind 1 completed installation of all 62 offshore wind turbines about 15 miles south of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, with the final blades installed late last week.
- Once fully online, the 800 MW project is expected to generate enough electricity to power more than 400,000 homes.
- The Interior Department ordered work stopped on Vineyard Wind 1 and four other offshore wind projects — Revolution Wind, Sunrise Wind, Empire Wind 1, and Dominion Energy's Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind — in late December 2025, citing national security concerns.
- Federal judges granted relief to all five projects, allowing construction to resume; in Vineyard Wind's case, the court ruled the government hadn't shown enough evidence to justify stopping work.
- Revolution Wind (704 MW) began delivering power to New England's grid the same week, expected to supply more than 350,000 homes and businesses in Rhode Island and Connecticut.
- Vineyard Wind 1 previously weathered permitting delays, political opposition, and a 2024 turbine blade failure that scattered debris onto Nantucket's shoreline.
Why it matters: Vineyard Wind 1's completion — the US's first utility-scale offshore wind farm — shows federal courts are willing to override the Trump administration's late-2025 work-stoppage order, letting 800 MW (enough for 400,000+ homes) reach the grid. For Massachusetts and the broader US market, the project is now a working template for finishing large offshore wind builds despite federal pushback and high-profile setbacks.
