A US federal court has issued a decision allowing the 806 MW Vineyard Wind offshore wind project to resume construction works in its lease area in Massachusetts, United States (Vineyard Wind press release, 27/01/2026).
- Construction had been paused since the Trump administration issued a stop-work order in December 2025, halting progress on five offshore wind parks under construction (KEI, 31/12/2025).
- In mid January 2026, Vineyard Wind filed a legal challenge to the stop-work order issued by the US BOEM.
- Vineyard Wind is a 50:50 joint venture between Avangrid, a US renewable energy company majority-owned by the Spanish energy group Iberdrola, and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP).
This marks the fourth project previously halted to be allowed to restart, following recent court decisions permitting Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia (2.6 GW), Ørsted’s Revolution Wind (700 MW) and Equinor’s Empire Wind (810 MW) to resume construction (KEI, 19/01/2026). Ørsted’s 920 MW Sunrise Wind project remains suspended by the stop-work order and has also filed a complaint in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on 7 January 2026.
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