As promised, President Donald Trump dealt a blow to the offshore wind industry on his first day in office Monday by signing an executive order that halts new leases for offshore wind farms in federal waters. The commissioning of Sunrise Wind, a 924-megawatt wind farm off the coast of Montauk, N.Y., and one of three offshore wind projects to be staged and shipped from State Pier, will be delayed until the second half of 2027, Ørsted said. A representative from Ørsted said the company is in the process of reviewing Trump’s executive order “to assess the impact on our portfolio,” but declined further comment. Ørsted has used State Pier to stage offshore wind components for South Fork Wind and Revolution Wind. The latter is under construction off the coast of Rhode Island and will be the first and only wind farm to produce power for Connecticut. Shaffer said he thinks Trump’s executive order and others that could follow might serve to provide headwinds and uncertainty for future wind projects, some of which are in the permitting stages. Part of Trump’s executive order pauses permitting for onshore and offshore wind farms while they are under review.
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