The Trump administration's order to halt work on a nearly completed wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island threatens grid reliability and jobs and defies explanation, business and government leaders from
The Trump administration's order to halt work on a nearly completed wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island threatens grid reliability and jobs and defies explanation, business and government leaders from New England said on Monday.
State leaders in Connecticut and Rhode Island demanded details from the administration about why it issued a stop-work order to the Revolution Wind project late on Friday. In its letter to project developer Orsted, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management cited unspecified national security concerns.
"They say there are national security interests here. Come clean, reveal them," Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, said at a press conference with fellow state leaders on Monday. "And if you can't do it in public, give us a briefing in private. We have top secret clearance."
A spokesperson for the Interior Department, which oversees BOEM, declined to comment on the stop-work order.
ISO New England, which operates the grid in six states, and North America's Building Trades Unions, an alliance of building and construction unions, also raised concerns.
"The ISO is expecting this project to come online and it is included in our analyses of near-term and future grid reliability," the grid operator for 15
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