PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Ørsted said Thursday that its 704-megawatt Revolution Wind offshore wind farm has reached full commercial operation, becoming the third large U.S. offshore wind project to fully come online — despite repeated efforts by the Trump administration to shut it down.
The Danish energy company announced the milestone on its third-quarter earnings call, saying the 65-turbine project about 15 miles south of the Rhode Island coast began "generating up to its full capacity" in October. The wind farm, a joint venture between Ørsted and Skyborn Renewables, is expected to produce enough electricity to power more than 350,000 homes in New England.
Revolution Wind began sending its first power to the regional grid in March, and workers installed the 65th and final Siemens Gamesa turbine in September. Under long-term power purchase agreements, Rhode Island Energy is buying 400 megawatts of the project's output, while Connecticut utilities Eversource and United Illuminating are buying the remaining 304 megawatts. The project is expected to meet about 20 percent of Rhode Island's electricity demand and 5 percent of Connecticut's.
The $6 billion project was thrust to the center of the federal government's campaign against offshore wind in August 2025, when the Interior Department ordered all construction stopped, citing unspecified national security concerns. A second stop-work order followed in December 2025. The orders were challenged in court, and work continued while the legal fight played out.
The project still is not fully out of the administration's crosshairs. In October, the Interior Department asked a federal court for permission to reevaluate its 2023 approval of the wind farm's construction and operations plan — a review that could raise fresh questions about the future of an already-operating project.
Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee welcomed the completion, and state officials have pointed to the project's fixed-price power contracts as a source of savings for ratepayers. Connecticut's energy department has estimated the project could save New England consumers about $500 million a year by 2028.
Revolution Wind joins South Fork Wind off New York and Vineyard Wind off Massachusetts as the only utility-scale offshore wind farms in full commercial operation in the United States. Ørsted is continuing work on another project, Sunrise Wind, which would serve New York.
