Trump Admin Halts 6 GW Offshore Wind Leases Again
Two weeks after a judge struck down President Donald Trump‘s executive order that blocked offshore wind development, the White House is again pausing leases for five large projects, this time citing concerns over radar interference.
“Today’s action addresses emerging national security risks, including the rapid evolution of the relevant adversary technologies, and the vulnerabilities created by large-scale offshore wind projects with proximity near our east coast population centers,” Interior secretary Doug Bergum said Monday in a statement.
The affected projects include Revolution Wind in Connecticut and Rhode Island, coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, Vineyard Wind in massachusetts, and Empire Wind and Sunrise Wind, both of which are in new York.In total, these projects represent nearly 6 gigawatts of generating capacity for the Eastern seaboard, a hotspot of data center development.
The Department of the Interior justified the action by citing unclassified government reports - it didn’t say which agency had produced them, nor did it link to them – along with “recently completed classified reports” from the Pentagon. The department said it would give the government time to work with stakeholders to address national security concerns.
The statement did not acknowledge the ongoing work government and wind developers have been doing to address national security concerns, specifically related to radar, for years.
The report the Interior department is highly likely referring to was issued by the Department of Energy in February 2024 and it lists a number of projects that were then underway to mitigate the problem of radar interference. (Other reports over the years have been commissioned to address the same concerns, some dating back to the previous Trump administration.)
“To date, no mitigation technology has been able to fully restore the technical perf
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