On December 22nd, the U.S. Department of the Interior ordered five offshore wind farms currently under construction to stop work due to national security concerns. Dominion Energy, developer of one of these offshore wind projects and Dominion's largest offshore project, filed suit challenging this stop-work order as unconstitutional and unlawful on December 23rd.
In December 2025, the Trump administration ordered construction on five major offshore wind projects to cease due to national security concerns related to radar interference. These included Vineyard Wind, Revolution Wind, Sunrise Wind Empire Wind and Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind; their developers are challenging this order in court.
Orsted is considering all options, including possible legal action, after receiving a stop-work order on its Sunrise Wind and Revolution Wind projects from the Trump administration on December 22. This halt has an adverse impact on multiple developers with Dominion Energy already suing in response. Orsted hopes to resolve the matter efficiently through dialogue with regulators like BOEM.
Rutter Inc has won $3.1M from Canadas Ocean Supercluster for their IoT tech and partnered with Wartsila and Seaspan on Canadian Coast Guard icebreakers, Orsted on CTV wave prediction prediction services for offshore wind farms and with OceanWaveS GmbH to enhance its offerings in ice navigation technology, oil spill detection and safety technology.
In late November and early December 2025, the Trump administration announced plans to delay approvals of New England Wind projects off the coast of Massachusetts, creating a further cloud of uncertainty around the US offshore wind sector. New York retaliated by fast-tracking $300 million in port funding and Revolution Wind off Connecticut is back to work after a federal halt. However, in the U.S. this sector is now very much moving forward, though it faces potential delays for its most critical projects.
Orsted scored a significant victory in November 2025, when the Trump administration failed to meet a deadline to appeal a federal court decision that cleared the way for construction to resume on its Revolution Wind offshore project, which was 85% complete and expected to wrap up in 2026.