August 26, 2025 — The Trump administration has halted construction on Revolution Wind, a $4 billion, 65-turbine offshore wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that was approximately 80 percent complete.
It marked Trump’s latest salvo against the offshore wind industry, which has been targeted by his administration since he was inaugurated in January.
In a letter to Orsted, the Danish energy company that is building Revolution Wind, Trump’s acting director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Matthew Giacona stated that the order to halt construction was made “to allow time for it to address concerns that have arisen during the review that the Department is undertaking pursuant to the President’s Memorandum of January 20, 2025.”
Giacona was referring to Trump’s executive order, which he signed on his inauguration day, that halted any new federal leases for offshore wind projects and threatened to terminate or amend existing wind energy leases following a review by the Secretary of the Department of the Interior. Giacona specified in his letter to Orsted that the stop work order was also implemented due to “national security concerns.”