Revolution Wind announces first power delivered to Connecticut energy grid
After a year of back-and-forth with the Trump Administration, Revolution Wind announced Friday that it has begun delivering power to the Connecticut energy grid.
The offshore wind project had recently had to fight the Trump administration for a second time at the end of December to finish construction.
Danish-based Ørsted said it was 85% complete and is expected to power 350,000 homes across Connecticut and Rhode Island on Dec. 23, 2025, when the administration put the rest of the project on hold.
The project was sent to limbo after the Department of the Interior paused leases for it and four other offshore wind projects, citing “national security concerns.” Much of the work was being done at State Pier in New London.
By the second week of January of this year, a district court judge said the government did not explain why it could not take action short of a complete stop to construction on Revolution Wind while it considers ways to mitigate its national security concerns. He said it also did not provide sufficient reasoning for its change in position.
The administration tried to stop the project a few months before that as well, with Connecticut and Rhode Island taking the issue to court.
Rep. Joe Courtney (D-02) said the project will bring cheaper electricity to Connecticut consumers, noting that the power cost of 9 cents per kWh is “far less than the average of 30 cents per kWh in our region.”
“Crucially, because this wind energy is directly transmitted off the coast of New England, its price will not be at the mercy of uncertain global energy markets. Today’s milestone never would have happened without talented Connecticut building trades workers, who persevered through the Trump Administration’s illegal halt work orders that were rejected by every court in the country,” Courtney said in a statement on Friday.
On its website, Ørsted said that once the project reaches full commercial operations, analysis from the State of Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) found that the offshore wind farm will save New England ratepayers as much as $500 million per year in wholesale energy costs.
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