The builders of a Virginia offshore wind undertaking are asking a federal decide to dam a Trump administration order that halted development of their undertaking, together with 4 others, over nationwide safety issues.
Dominion Power 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 growing Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, a undertaking it says is important to satisfy dramatically rising power wants pushed by dozens of recent knowledge facilities.
The Inside Division didn’t element the safety issues in blocking the 5 tasks on Monday. In a letter to undertaking builders, Inside’s Bureau of Ocean Power Administration set a 90-day interval — and probably longer — “to determine whether the national security threats posed by this project can be adequately mitigated.”
The opposite tasks are the Winery Wind undertaking underneath development in Massachusetts, Revolution Wind in Rhode Island and Connecticut and two tasks in New York: Dawn 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 in opposition to renewable power sources.
Dominion’s undertaking has been underneath development since early 2024 and was scheduled to come back on-line early subsequent 12 months, offering sufficient power to energy about 660,000 houses. The corporate mentioned the delay was costing it greater than $5 million a day in losses solely for the ships utilized in round the clock development, and that prospects or the corporate would finally bear the associated fee.
Dominion referred to 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.”
U.S. District Choose Jamar Walker set a listening to for two p.m. Monday on Dominion’s request for a short lived restraining order.
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