February 4, 2026 — The first production wind turbine for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project was installed Jan. 27, less than two weeks after developer Dominion Energy won a temporary injunction against the Trump administration’s stop-work order.
Dominion’s 472’x184’ wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) Charybdis, built at Seatrium’s AmFELS shipyard in Brownsville, Texas, is the first Jones Act-compliant WTIV under the U.S. flag. After the project is about 71% completed and is expected to be sending power to the regional grid in the first quarter of 2026, according to Dominion.
In a Jan. 30 update Dominion reported that all 176 monopiles have been installed on the lease for the 2.6-gigawatt rated project, along with as 119 transition and 57 awaiting installation.