Revolution Wind, the 50/50 joint venture between Skyborn Renewables and Ørsted, has filed a supplemental complaint in the US District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the lease suspension order issued on 22 December 2025 by the US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), to be followed by a motion for a preliminary injunction.

All that legal gobbledygook comes down to a challenge that the Trump Administration had the right to order work to stop on the 704MW offshore wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island.

Revolution Wind is in advanced stages of construction and is expected to be ready in 2026. The Project, now approximately 87 per cent complete, has already installed all offshore foundations and 58 of 65 wind turbines. Export cable installation is complete, and both offshore substations have been installed.

The legal saga has roots from 21 January 2025, when President Trump signed an Executive Order halting the leasing and permitting of offshore wind sites going forward and in August 2025, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued a stop-work order for the project, citing unspecified national security interests. On 22 September, the court allowed resumption of work while the underlying lawsuit challenging the stop-work order progressed. Now the legal wrangles are entering another round.

Ørsted believes that the lease suspension order violates applicable law, as was the case with the August 2025 stop-work order, and the project faces substantial harm from a continuation of the lease suspension order. As a result, the company says, litigation is a necessary step to protect the rights of the project.

Ørsted’s Sunrise Wind project, a separate project and wholly owned subsidiary of Ørsted that also received a lease suspension order on December 22 continues to evaluate all options to resolve the matter.

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