New London — Gov. Ned Lamont, flanked by other state and local cheerleaders for the nearly complete Revolution Wind project, took a victory lap Wednesday as they stood on the city’s waterfront and lauded the wind farm’s recent activation. As far as celebration sites go, it was likely hard to find a better backdrop for the day’s speeches. Lamont, Mayor Michael Passero, state representatives and union workers gathered at City Pier in the shadow of the under-construction National Coast Guard Museum and not far from State Pier where components for the 90% completed wind project were staged and assembled before being shipped to an installation site south of the Rhode Island coast. “That’s progress out there,” Lamont said, gesturing to the Wind Scylla turbine installation ship that was motoring through the Thames River and out to the newest wind farm, Sunrise Wind, being built in federal waters just south of Martha’s Vineyard. The Danish company Ørsted, which partnered with Global Infrastructure Partners’ Skyborn Renewables on the 704-megawatt Revolution Wind project, announced two weeks ago that the installation had begun delivering power to the New England electrical grid — a milestone that Wednesday’s speakers noted did not come without some complications. Lamont and state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Commissioner Katie Dykes both decried project delays they blamed on President Donald Trump’s push to halt the project twice last year. Those directives — Dykes called them “illegal moves by the federal government” — were ultimately blocked after being challenged in federal court.

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